{"id":21962,"date":"2026-02-28T23:43:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/21962\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:43:06","slug":"inter-milan-2-0-genoa-switzerland-star-heaps-praise-on-nerazzurri-teammates-a-pleasure-to-play-with-this-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/21962\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Milan 2-0 Genoa \u2013 Switzerland Star Heaps Praise On Nerazzurri Teammates: \u2018A Pleasure To Play With This Defence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yann Sommer was full of praise for his Inter Milan teammates after the Nerazzurri kept another clean sheet in a 2-0 victory over Genoa at San Siro, with the Switzerland goalkeeper highlighting the collective defensive effort at the club.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Sky Sport after the match, with quotes via FCInterNews<\/a>, Sommer was quick to place the result in its wider context.<\/p>\n

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Coming just days after the Champions League elimination to Bodo\/Glimt, the win represented exactly the kind of response Cristian Chivu<\/a> had demanded from his squad.<\/p>\n

And, indeed, the goalkeeper acknowledged its importance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis victory is very important for us after going out of the Champions League,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBodo were very strong, but it was important to react and look forward, and we did that very well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inter 2-0 Genoa \u2013 Sommer Proud Of His Defenders\"\"<\/p>\n

BERGAMO, ITALY \u2013 DECEMBER 28: Yann Sommer of FC Internazionale in action during the Serie A match between Atalanta BC and FC Internazionale at New Balance Arena on December 28, 2025 in Bergamo, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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On Inter\u2019s remarkable clean sheet record, Sommer was characteristically team-focused.<\/p>\n

\u201cA great team must be strong even after a defeat like the one in the Champions League,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year we had done well, a shame. You always have to move forward together.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then offered a touching tribute to the defenders in front of him.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a goalkeeper, it is a pleasure to play behind a defence like this. In many games we defend very well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sommer<\/a> also identified the key ingredients behind Inter\u2019s defensive strength.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to have control of the game and collective compactness,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are hard in duels and we keep our shape well.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is a formula that has served Inter brilliantly across the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yann Sommer was full of praise for his Inter Milan teammates after the Nerazzurri kept another clean sheet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4624,12520,9688,14331,606,17,14332,5116],"class_list":{"0":"post-21962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-atalanta-bc","9":"tag-champions-league","10":"tag-cristian-chivu","11":"tag-genoa","12":"tag-inter-milan","13":"tag-switzerland","14":"tag-the-champions-league","15":"tag-yann-sommer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}