Luciano Spalletti has backed Inter to bounce back from a dip in form that has seen his side lose their last three matches in all competitions.
A 1-0 extra-time Coppa Italia quarter-final loss to rivals AC Milan on Wednesday followed Serie A defeats to Udinese and Sassuolo.
Spalletti s side have scored only one goal in their last five matches in all competitions, having been the early pacesetters with a 16-game unbeaten run at the start of the season.
But Spalletti refuted suggestions Inter are in crisis, with Lazio the visitors to San Siro on Saturday.
These guys have done exceptional things, because we have done everything alone, we have a chance to find a solution, Spalletti told reporters on Friday.
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Mohamed Salah s second-half brace sealed a pulsating come-from-behind 2-1 win for Liverpool over Leicester City at Anfield.
Fourth-placed Liverpool are now unbeaten in 12 Premier League matches, a run that owes much to the brilliant Salah.
The Egypt forward now has 23 goals in all competitions this season – more than the total mustered by eight Premier League clubs – and his inspiration was needed after a shaky start.
Virgil van Dijk, who will replace Salah as Liverpool s record signing when his £75million switch from Southampton is completed, looked on from the stands as some abject
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defending allowed Jamie Vardy to score for the seventh time in his past five outings against the Reds inside three minutes.
Claude Puel s side, who remain ei…
West Ham United have had a bid for Carlos Bacca rejected by AC Milan as the Colombian searches for European football next season, according to his agent.
Bacca joined Milan from Sevilla at the end of last season, scoring 20 goals across all competitions in his debut campaign in Italy.
However, a seventh-place finish for Milan in 2015-16 meant the Serie A outfit miss out on European football for a second consecutive season.
Bacca s agent Sergio Barila confirmed West Ham have put in a bid for the 29-year-old, but Milan are not prepared to let their forward go easily.
There was an offer last week from West Ham which was rejected so we must wait, Barila told the Guardian.
Carlos is very happy in Milan because it is a very big club and he…
Emmanuel Adebayor has tinges of regret over his time in football, but has not ruled out muscling in on the Ballon d Or conversation as he targets a first league title of his career.
Adebayor has played for Arsenal, Manchester City, Real Madrid and Tottenham, though his sole major trophy came at the Santiago Bernabeu, where a six-month loan took in a Copa del Rey triumph for Los Blancos.
The Togo striker could be set for a league glory in 2017-18, though, having top-scored in Istanbul Basaksehir s march to the summit of the Super Lig at the mid-season break.
Though frustrated with his lot thus far, Adebayor is refusing to give up dreaming of landing big prizes.
I had dreamt of playing for Arsenal and Real Madrid and those dreams came true, Adebayor told …
There may be no better man than Carlo Ancelotti to lead Real Madrid s charge for a historic 10th European crown.
The Italian is a European Cup/UEFA Champions League specialist, having won the competition on four occasions as both a player and a coach for Milan.
And Ancelotti can become only the second manager after iconic Liverpool boss Bob Paisley to lift the trophy three times with a win over Atletico Madrid on Saturday.
Ancelotti was a key component of Arrigo Sacchi s legendary Milan team that won the European Cup in successive seasons in 1988-89 and 1989-90, alongside the likes of Franco Baresi, Paolo Maldini and Marco van Basten.
Fast forward 13 years and Ancelotti tasted European glory from the dugout, as his Milan side edged Juventus on penalties at Old Tr…