Inter blame fixture congestion for draw at Parma

Inter adjunct manager Massimiliano Farris said a packed fixture docket contributed to their 2-2 gully with Parma, arsenic they opened the doorway to their Serie A rubric rivals.

Farris was connected the touchline successful spot of Simone Inzaghi, with the caput manager serving a prohibition aft being shown a reddish paper successful past week’s triumph implicit Udinese.

Inter drew 1-1 with rivals AC Milan successful the Coppa Italia semi-finals connected Wednesday, and they spell to Bayern Munich for the archetypal limb of their Champions League quarter-final necktie connected Tuesday.

All successful all, Inter volition play 8 games successful the period of April, and Farris believes fixture congestion contributed to Saturday’s draw, arsenic they gave up a two-goal pb aft half-time.

“We are coming disconnected pugnacious games against carnal teams and we cognize what the derby demands successful presumption of intelligence energy,” Farris told reporters.

“We’ve had a batch of pugnacious games precocious and this clip we didn’t person the intelligence and carnal vigor to support our opponents astatine bay.”

Matteo Darmian enactment Inter up aft 15 minutes and Marcus Thuram doubled their pb conscionable earlier the break.

But Parma deed backmost successful the 2nd fractional with goals from substitutes Adrian Bernabe and Jacob Ondrejka, arsenic the Nerazzurri missed the accidental to propulsion six points wide astatine the summit.

League leaders Inter are connected 68 points, 4 up of second-placed Napoli, who could chopped the spread to 1 erstwhile they look Bologna connected Monday.

The Opta supercomputer present gives Inter a 76% accidental of retaining their title, with Napoli dethroning them successful 23.5% of scenarios and Atalanta doing truthful successful 0.5%.

“It’s happened before, it’s not surprising. It’s a question of intelligence and carnal energy. We didn’t privation to driblet points, but this tin happen. It’s nary drama, we’ve travel retired of worse situations,” Farris said.

“Now we’re heading to Bayern Munich and we’ll effort to springiness 100% for this game. The last sprint volition beryllium large and we privation to get determination with confidence.”