How can one claim that Italian football is weak when having Inter and Milan in CL Semi-finals, Juventus and Roma in EL Semi-finals and Fiorentina in Conference League Semi-Finals. No other league is even near those results. So even if the players aren’t as good on paper, somehow they succeed
Its exactly because of your last statement. There are no superstars. That league is devoid of superstars. The pl has haaland, kdb, salah and others. La liga has benzema, modric, vinicius, lewandowski. Bundesliga rn doesnt have any huge player other than perhaps kimmich but theyre still a scary team, so theyre respected. Even ligue 1 has mbappe, messi, neymar. Serie a has no one. Also, when people watch the CL they see ac milan in tbe semis, and it wasnt a great showing from them. Hard to be convinced of how good these teams are when they perform so poorly in the big stages
@@claudio14946 Rather ur comment shows how shallow minded u are. We might not have majority fanbase in football but we are the real hardcore fans who stay up late night to watch CL games and our favorite club's league games and get up early morning for work. U guys watch it in a comfortable time slot and go for ur routine 8hr job cycle. Out of billion people, there are million Indian fans who watch football in India which is more than ur country's population (I'm assuming it's Italy with ur name).
They were seeded better making them have a better chance of reaching a champions league final remember any of the 3 italian teams could have reached a final inter did
Don is absolutely right: football goes through cycles and at this point England is the top dog where even a team like Everton can employ Ancelotti for crying out loud.
It's never going Back, in the 80's and 90's owner spending was the difference. Now it's about Tv rights. A relegated English team gets more money than Napoli for winning the Seria A.
Im from Minnesota and remember last summer when Minnesota United beat Everton 3-0 with Evertons Starting XI at the time lmao PL is solid but also way over rated
Inter got beat twice by Bayern in the group stage they were lucky getting 2 Portuguese teams and AC final to reach the final obviously they have to play against who is in front of them but the gap between quality is there for anyone else to see as showed by some of their performances in serie A this season. While Manchester City or Real Madrid are much better than them doesn’t mean they can’t win but it’s unlikely.
@@martinsinister6759 LaLiga has 19 UCL. Not only do they own Champions league but also Europa leagues with 12 EL, far more than any other league. Don’t forget the UCL losses Atletico has literally lost to Real themselves. European silverware aside, LaLigas influence on football as a whole, is unmatched.
@@v02ones59a league where there's two clubs that are unreachable for the others (except for maybe Atletico), it's almost at the level of the scottish prem. Meanwhile Serie A has had 4 different winners in the last 4 seasons which goes to show that the league is way more competitive.
@@frafrafrafrafraprem has had same winners since the past 3 seasons. La liga has been won by 3 different teams in the last 3 seasons. La liga>prem according to the logic you just gav
It is fascinating how these pundits can say „Inter had the easy draw, that‘s why they made it this far“. Just a year ago it didn‘t sound the same, when it came to Liverpool. Just a reminder of Liverpool’s knockout stage opponents last CL campaign: Inter, Benfica, Villareal, and then lost to Real in the final. Double standard much
@@callumatkinson4402 they did. In the 2021/22 CL season. They played those teams in the knockout stages. Like my comment says lmao you drunk or something?
The difference is that Liverpool dominated the group stage as well and were competing for a quadruple, so it would have been silly to question their quality. Liverpool was clearly the best team in the competition last year judging by the way they dominated Real Madrid in the final.
@@AM2K2 not sure what you mean. It changes everything as they said Inter got lucky until now. If Inter wins the final, would that also be considered luck? It's a pretty straightforward thinking process..
Last three month you same people were asking if any Italian team can even reach the finals and today they are here ... I tell you people inter is playing really well and don't underestimate them . They can really shock fans in the finals
Yaa of course when you have 3 Italian sides in one side of the draw with Benfica what did you expect?? An Italian team not reaching the final?? 😂😂😂 And literally the other side was City Bayern Madrid Chelsea (PSG also ) 😅 You know what happened when Chelsea who are having the worst season played Milan right? Soo imagine if they played bayern City or Madrid in 2 leg. But yes the final is a 1 off anything can happen all the best to Inter Milan.
@Samkelo Rashuza I didn't say anything about Inter to discredit them.... but its not a shock an Italian team reached the final considering the draw that was my point to the above comment.
Craig is crazy!! italian teams are strong!! its not honesty saying italian teams are weak!! he takes some examples of Epl players goin to serie A but he doesnt remember salah didnt do much in serie A and suddenly killing it in EPL alisson!! kulusevski bentancur!! and many more!! the english bias is crazy!! it shows their knowledge of football is very minimal!
Lautaro Martinez may be a striker who’s divided opinion due to his streaky streak in front of goal and how he performed for the Argentina national team at the World Cup but you’ve seen the productivity in his game he has great goalscoring output and his hold up play is excellent. If Inter Milan wins the champions league he has won every big trophy for club and country. Won a domestic cup Serie A Copa América and a World Cup and in the same season he could be a World Cup winner and champions league winner if his team wins the champions league. At the age of 25, Lautaro Martinez is set to complete football for club and country if he ends up winning the champions league next month. I think he’s often overlooked due to his consistency but throughout his Inter Milan career he has given them great output for them and has won almost every possible trophy in football and he’ll complete football if his club ends up winning the champions league. What a player and regardless of his inconsistency, Lautaro Martinez is an excellent player and has been a key part in Argentina’s success and also Inter Milan’s success in Serie A and champions league. He’s grossly underrated and for him he’s had a great season not just this year but in previous years too and right now Lautaro Martinez is one of the best strikers in world football.
What would you say of Julian Alvarez if Manchester City beat Real Madrid go and win the Champions League, win the Premier League and FA Cup just on top of the World Cup he won with Argentina. And on top of that it was his first time to play in the World Cup for Argentina and the first year playing for Manchester City. He shall have won everything so early in his career.
@@tomodul2619 Julian Alvarez is only 22 and if Manchester City wins the treble this season including the champions league he could end the season being the most decorated player in world football because he won the World Cup and he’s playing on a team fighting for every trophy. Despite being an understudy to Erling Haaland, Julian Alvarez has had a fantastic season for club and country and he’s absolute quality. He plays for Manchester City and he doesn’t play every week but when he starts he scores a goal. Julian Alvarez will start on most teams in the world that’s how good he is and when a player of that quality doesn’t get in your best 11 that just tells you how good that Manchester City team because when a player like him can walk into any team in Europe he’s on the bench on this star studded team. Julian Alvarez will end up completing football at a young age if he wins the treble at Manchester City this season.
These guys almost never get one right. Very disrespectful to the millions of serie a fans. CBS sports cast is miles ahead of these guys. They should probably watch and learn from them.
Thank you Giovanni this is the most pathetic football show on tv disgusting disrespectful pro epl fools. CBS is miles ahead of this shamble of a show. Forza Italia
You have to have no knowledge of football to legitimately favor Inter over Madrid or City. I get that you’re a Italian fan boy but Madrid are monsters in the champions league. You clearly hate listening to people who don’t cater to your every viewpoint so why bother listening to ESPN?
Italian and Spanish football is technically and visually superior to English football which only survives on money to buy foreign players because their domestic players are so bad. English fans also lack intelligence so this will be above them.
Serie A is very competitive. Four different champions in 4 years - Juve (2020), Inter (2021), MIlan (2022) and Napoli (2023). Then you have teams like Roma, Lazio, Fiorentina and Atalanta who have done well in recent years. Italian managers like Ancelloti, De Zerbi, Conte and Inzaghi are doing very well and Italy won the Euros. Money is an issue but if Italian teams can sort out the stadiums and build their own grounds I think it will help to redress the balance somewhat. The football isn't all defensive (lazy stereotype). Some of the most defensive and negative UCL winners of all time were Chelsea in 2012 and Liverpool in 2005. Despite all of their wealth English teams have won only 6 UCL's in the 30 years since its inception in 1992-93 (the same season the EPL was launched) . Italian teams have 5 UCL wins.
I watch espnfc for the same reason I liked wwe, for the entertainment. If we had an Arsenal vs Man U in the UCL semifinal we wouldn’t hear the end of it. They did have an “easier” way to the final but so did Liverpool last year and when they won it
"A bunch of has beens'! Ok, Italian clubs are making the best of the resources they have. Maybe a player like Lukaku or Dezco is treated like a "has been" in England; meanwhile, in Italy he is put in a situation where he can play a clear role in helping a club like Inter stay relevant. Wasn't Inter the only team that beat Liverpool at Amfield in route to Champions League final? The Premier league really struggled to compete with Serie A and Spain for decades until basically "no need to beat teams on the field anymore because you can beat them economically" (with few exceptions Liverpool and Manchaster United in the Ferguson era) . Teams like Man City were not a brand until the money poured in over the past decade or so.
England-Italy is just a football rivalry after the Euro 2020 Final. Despite Italy being victorious when it comes to the number of international trophies, their club successes are still behind England (12 wins vs 14).
The only rivalry in european football is between Italy and Germany with each 4 Worldtitles and ita 2 and Germ 3 Eurotitles.england is not in the same conversation as Italy,Germany and especially Brasil
What a joke these people are... Lautaro leaving Inter? In your dreams. 25 percent chance to win? Inter has the same chance as anyone in the final has. They watch too much premier league. Even without having the same media coverage as premier league, serie a is the best in the world at the moment.
"they have been disregarded", then they come to italy, play well for two seasons, then the PL comes and buys them for exorbitant amount of money ruins them again
Well duh because they played superbly in the Serie A but then go to a better league and flop. I'm sorry but this has happened to many many players. It's facts
@@v02ones59 "better league", if we talk about the Prem then,probably yes...but not by the margin you and those pundits are making it out to be, one of the major reasons why older players can play well in Serie A is because it is the most tactical savy league on the world, so, usually it is less physically intense for the players and also the experience helps in being more tactically aware right away and gives them an advantage. Also....why you guys never mention the players that did decent in Serie A and then did even better going from Serie A to the Prems?....Salah? Rudiger? Allison? Cavani? Kulusevski? Thiago Silva? and many others...and i am only talking about the Prem here..because there are many others, all across Europe in top teams that are doing quite well coming from Serie A. Also, what about the flops that came from the Prem? like Ramsey and Eriksen?
Lautaro scored so many goals with ARG and is in fact their best Striker. And just because of 4-5 average game's (where he played with injuries) they say he needs someone like Lukaku and Dzeko to score. While it ARG he is their number 9!
This is what happens when people become so lazy they only have mental capacity to watch one league. Even then, where is your humility to acknowledge that quality exists outside England? The disrespect shown here to Inter (and Italy in general) is there for everyone to see. No one made these derogatory comments when Liverpool came up against much fancied AC Milan team in 2005 before the final. No one made those comments about league struggling Chelsea against most inform team in Europe that season Bayern with the final at their home. None of these "experts" also made similar comments against Chelsea again versus City in CL final. There is a difference in saying, one team should be clear favourites based on investment they have made over the year, strengthening year after year, winning their domestic league etc, but Inter aren't some Estonian 3rd division team either. A team of world class on their own in Onana, Bastoni, DiMarco, Brozo, Barella and Lautaro. When you have those type of players plus a coach who does well in cup finals. Nothing is ever as one balanced as these lazy guys are making it out to be. Everything has to be in hyperbole, City has to steamroll Inter, laugh and job well done. What an incredibly lazy take, something I have noticed many English pundits or English based shows make. Let's see, some folks are due for rude awakening
To be honest either city or Madrid anyone that go through to the final have more chance of Winning the final than Inter but in football anything can happen cuz we saw them doing it in the past
Non of this matters in a single game knock out match. Anything could happen (chelsea-man city, liverpool-ac milan) so this entire conversation is for absolutely nothing
These English pundits will always be sour against Italians, and why wouldnt they. We beat them in every competition and deprive them of silverware. What these teams do with 1/4 of money is nothing short of incredible. Money doesn't buy history, and that's why city is still a small club
And the fact that even Ranieri won EPL with Leicester and an Italian Di Matteo won Champions League for his team Chelsea, let alone the Ancelotti, Conte and now De Zerbi cake walk their league the first time they managed there. While no Englishmen since Hodgson's Inter in the 90s even qualify to manage a mid table club in Italy
We expect one of Real Madrid or Manchester City to win champions league but hey it’s a champions league final and I think Inter Milan have a 15% chance of beating one of those teams. Whoever they face Inter Milan will give them a good fight but at the end of the day Real Madrid and Manchester City have too much quality for Inter Milan and they’ll find a way to lift the champions league.
No matter how good city seem to be they always find a way of bottling it so maybe inter can take an advantage of that, however, inter aint beating rma, rma dont lose finals
@@arsentex1126 Manchester City beat themselves in the champions league and Pep Guardiola cannot help himself because over the years he overthinks and just play your best team they should beat Inter regardless no matter how tight the game will be. They'll lose to Real Madrid they treat every game like a final in the champions league and with this attitude and winning mentality that they have around the football club, I don't see Inter Milan beating Real Madrid but it'll be close they got a great core team but those teams have way too much talent and quality.
@@arsentex1126 For your information, Real already lost a final to Inter in 1967... How can people be saying stuff like this I don't know, but saying a team will win when they're still far from the final as we speak is so stupid. I hope it is Real against Inter because Inter has a few victories over them and Man City are just a money machine - Inter have a history full of titles it is silly to say City can just walk in and win against Inter like they've never played a football match before and lots of Inter players did so much for their countries and won with them and with Inter as well.
If Inzaghi has a better game plan using effective counter attach football Man City will loose it. Man city is very week in defense with especially in the center channel. If Inter have Lukaku and his teamates can beat it easily.
Why does every single English media always say other competitions are not strong and always hyping up there own league when City won 4 out of 5 PLs funny enough I predicted City to win it again even when Arsenal was on top in October. Then there is the CL you have like 5 PL teams who won it in past 25 years! That's honesty.
They don’t remember because when it really counted, he couldn’t perform. It’s not that complicated. Stop trying to victimize yourselves over the opinions of others.
Zero chance. Not taking away anything - it’s an incredible accomplishment by Inter. But just like 2013 Dortmund or 2019 Spurs or 2014 & 2016 Atleti, this is as far as they go - the opposition is just way too ahead of them, whoever it is, Madrid or City - both are juggernauts that will just crush Inter.
@@IcyBlueberries that one I must say I was very surprised by. IMO Juve deservedly made it through, were in form, but I’m completely baffled how they managed to bottle it so badly in the final with Madrid. That famous Zizou magic probably haha. 2015 Juve stood no chance tho. That Barca team was a steamroller.
Inter a team of has beens ? You would have thought he was a top player, i sense bitterness, i would love it,i really would if city got through and get beaten by inter, many of these British pundits wouldn't know what to do witj themselves
He had a tough season with injury but of late Romelu Lukaku has been really good scoring some key goals for Inter Milan and has been a good impact sub for them. He may not be in prime form but you can see how good he is when he’s on a team that plays to his ability and can get the best out of him. Months ago Inter Milan said that they’ll send him back to Chelsea due to his contributions to helping them get to the final they should keep him for another loan.
@Toba Epebinuade in Italian league?? Yes he was good for Belgium also against Andorra etc. Nothing new. He is not a big team or a big game player. And 100% I hope they keep him for life there. Don't want to see his face again at Chelsea 🙏
@Hamza Benamar like that he was at United Everton westbrom... basically you have no point considering he hasn't played at all. You would have had a point if he played and scored goals and carried them... he didn't even start the semi.... soo yaa you have no point here 🤣🤣🤣. That's the irony.
Well, City allowed themselves to be beaten by a mid table epl team the last game of the EPL season so they can be beaten. Losses do have a psychological effect on that invincible mentality that gives a team supreme confidence, belief and desire to win
Lol. I remember them pundits dismissing Argentina before the WC just because they dint have hyped players in so called best clubs. We know what happened.
This is the first time in a long time it feels like there’s not even a glimpse of hope for one final opponent (Inter) to win the CL. I can‘t see them getting anything against Man City or Real. They are at least a whole level above them. I don‘t know I just don’t have that feeling that they are able to beat them like I had with Dortmund, Atlético etc. back in the day
This show had been so "praise EPL at all cost and don't talk much about other leagues". Now it is about "hate all the other leagues, and despise the Italian one". Utter nonsense!
How can one claim that Italian football is weak when having Inter and Milan in CL Semi-finals, Juventus and Roma in EL Semi-finals and Fiorentina in Conference League Semi-Finals.
No other league is even near those results. So even if the players aren’t as good on paper, somehow they succeed
Proof is in the results!! I agree 👍
Its exactly because of your last statement. There are no superstars. That league is devoid of superstars. The pl has haaland, kdb, salah and others. La liga has benzema, modric, vinicius, lewandowski. Bundesliga rn doesnt have any huge player other than perhaps kimmich but theyre still a scary team, so theyre respected. Even ligue 1 has mbappe, messi, neymar. Serie a has no one. Also, when people watch the CL they see ac milan in tbe semis, and it wasnt a great showing from them. Hard to be convinced of how good these teams are when they perform so poorly in the big stages
@@niranjanrajesh1058 it 's funny that an indian guy explains us how football goes. Cricket is your sport!!! :-)))
@@claudio14946 Rather ur comment shows how shallow minded u are. We might not have majority fanbase in football but we are the real hardcore fans who stay up late night to watch CL games and our favorite club's league games and get up early morning for work. U guys watch it in a comfortable time slot and go for ur routine 8hr job cycle. Out of billion people, there are million Indian fans who watch football in India which is more than ur country's population (I'm assuming it's Italy with ur name).
They were seeded better making them have a better chance of reaching a champions league final remember any of the 3 italian teams could have reached a final inter did
Don is absolutely right: football goes through cycles and at this point England is the top dog where even a team like Everton can employ Ancelotti for crying out loud.
100% agree. Italy were on top for a while, then La Liga, now it’s the premier league’s time to be in the spotlight.
It's never going Back, in the 80's and 90's owner spending was the difference. Now it's about Tv rights. A relegated English team gets more money than Napoli for winning the Seria A.
Im from Minnesota and remember last summer when Minnesota United beat Everton 3-0 with Evertons Starting XI at the time lmao PL is solid but also way over rated
@@nickgarcia4988 Exactly. Your wallet can't play for you.
I means AC Milan Was a Monster back in the day .. Italy got many Millionaire why don't one of them Buy these Club ..?
Italy and Germany have the most international titles.The trick is.They know how to win titles.Come on Inter,from München
Grazie, brother
As a Bayern fan!!! Forza Inter!! Goodluck luck!!
Inter got beat twice by Bayern in the group stage they were lucky getting 2 Portuguese teams and AC final to reach the final obviously they have to play against who is in front of them but the gap between quality is there for anyone else to see as showed by some of their performances in serie A this season. While Manchester City or Real Madrid are much better than them doesn’t mean they can’t win but it’s unlikely.
Not true. Spain has more international club titles. Italy, England and Germany are the followers
EUROPEAN CUPS (Only Trophy That Matters):
Real Madrid - 14
England - 14
Italy - 12
Germany - 8
Holland - 6
Spain/Catalunya (Barca) - 5
Portugal - 4
Craig should be banned from punditry if Inter win the UCL
The Italian league is deeper than any other league besides the EPL
Definitely not true. LaLiga and the Prem are clear
Only team holding up laliga is RM..for the past few years Only 1 Spanish team made it past semi in CL and that's RM
@@martinsinister6759 LaLiga has 19 UCL. Not only do they own Champions league but also Europa leagues with 12 EL, far more than any other league. Don’t forget the UCL losses Atletico has literally lost to Real themselves. European silverware aside, LaLigas influence on football as a whole, is unmatched.
@@v02ones59a league where there's two clubs that are unreachable for the others (except for maybe Atletico), it's almost at the level of the scottish prem. Meanwhile Serie A has had 4 different winners in the last 4 seasons which goes to show that the league is way more competitive.
@@frafrafrafrafraprem has had same winners since the past 3 seasons.
La liga has been won by 3 different teams in the last 3 seasons.
La liga>prem according to the logic you just gav
It is fascinating how these pundits can say „Inter had the easy draw, that‘s why they made it this far“. Just a year ago it didn‘t sound the same, when it came to Liverpool. Just a reminder of Liverpool’s knockout stage opponents last CL campaign: Inter, Benfica, Villareal, and then lost to Real in the final. Double standard much
Not sure what your point is? That's a difficult group... Liverpool didn't play inter and benfica on the way to the final
@@callumatkinson4402 they did. In the 2021/22 CL season. They played those teams in the knockout stages. Like my comment says lmao you drunk or something?
@@kobeobryant ah my bad! I read It as the group staged for some reason
@@callumatkinson4402 all good. Was just pointing out the double standard of these pundits
The difference is that Liverpool dominated the group stage as well and were competing for a quadruple, so it would have been silly to question their quality. Liverpool was clearly the best team in the competition last year judging by the way they dominated Real Madrid in the final.
After watching this episode i so want Inter Milan to win is and then hear @Craig talking about football and coaching overall
Its a final anyone can win,
Inter will park bus and play on counter for few mins
How does Inter winning change anything?
@@AM2K2 not sure what you mean. It changes everything as they said Inter got lucky until now. If Inter wins the final, would that also be considered luck? It's a pretty straightforward thinking process..
@@AM2K2so they should not celebrate their triump if they win???
@@AM2K2 it proves these dudes craig especially are biased fools too lazy to do their job.
Last three month you same people were asking if any Italian team can even reach the finals and today they are here ... I tell you people inter is playing really well and don't underestimate them . They can really shock fans in the finals
Spot on buddy👍💪
Yaa of course when you have 3 Italian sides in one side of the draw with Benfica what did you expect?? An Italian team not reaching the final?? 😂😂😂
And literally the other side was City Bayern Madrid Chelsea (PSG also ) 😅
You know what happened when Chelsea who are having the worst season played Milan right?
Soo imagine if they played bayern City or Madrid in 2 leg.
But yes the final is a 1 off anything can happen all the best to Inter Milan.
@@benjyjosephb The same Benfica that finished above psg lol keep discrediting Inter's journey
@Samkelo Rashuza I didn't say anything about Inter to discredit them.... but its not a shock an Italian team reached the final considering the draw that was my point to the above comment.
@@samkelorashuza5949 Like the other dude said the odds were HEAVILY stacked in an italians teams favour to go through to the final because of the draw
they are good odds, they can defend and those two strikers up front work very well together.
I hope inter wins it.Come on Inter.Get the Catenaccio going!
What is criminal is that Ac milan beat Napoli to semi
Low key swept under the rug lol
Shackles were off weren't they 😂 Well done to the production team. Funniest episode of Extra Time I've seen 👏
Craig is crazy!! italian teams are strong!! its not honesty saying italian teams are weak!! he takes some examples of Epl players goin to serie A but he doesnt remember salah didnt do much in serie A and suddenly killing it in EPL alisson!! kulusevski bentancur!! and many more!! the english bias is crazy!! it shows their knowledge of football is very minimal!
One is a goalkeeper who joined 5 years ago and you included Kulusevski 💀 have you seen Spurs?
What do you expect from the English? They're a bunch of inbred cunts with single digit IQs
Yes so unfair!! Craig always goes back to their teams, never mentioned anything good. Not even mentioning what inzaghi has done for this team!
@@AM2K275% of EPL legends and greats were average or flops in other leagues
I m sorry buddy but saying that "Salah didn t do much in Serie A" is just non-sense. Believe me. I am a Roma fan
Lautaro Martinez may be a striker who’s divided opinion due to his streaky streak in front of goal and how he performed for the Argentina national team at the World Cup but you’ve seen the productivity in his game he has great goalscoring output and his hold up play is excellent. If Inter Milan wins the champions league he has won every big trophy for club and country. Won a domestic cup Serie A Copa América and a World Cup and in the same season he could be a World Cup winner and champions league winner if his team wins the champions league. At the age of 25, Lautaro Martinez is set to complete football for club and country if he ends up winning the champions league next month. I think he’s often overlooked due to his consistency but throughout his Inter Milan career he has given them great output for them and has won almost every possible trophy in football and he’ll complete football if his club ends up winning the champions league. What a player and regardless of his inconsistency, Lautaro Martinez is an excellent player and has been a key part in Argentina’s success and also Inter Milan’s success in Serie A and champions league. He’s grossly underrated and for him he’s had a great season not just this year but in previous years too and right now Lautaro Martinez is one of the best strikers in world football.
Oh shut up
He's pish
What would you say of Julian Alvarez if Manchester City beat Real Madrid go and win the Champions League, win the Premier League and FA Cup just on top of the World Cup he won with Argentina. And on top of that it was his first time to play in the World Cup for Argentina and the first year playing for Manchester City. He shall have won everything so early in his career.
@@tomodul2619 Julian Alvarez is only 22 and if Manchester City wins the treble this season including the champions league he could end the season being the most decorated player in world football because he won the World Cup and he’s playing on a team fighting for every trophy. Despite being an understudy to Erling Haaland, Julian Alvarez has had a fantastic season for club and country and he’s absolute quality. He plays for Manchester City and he doesn’t play every week but when he starts he scores a goal. Julian Alvarez will start on most teams in the world that’s how good he is and when a player of that quality doesn’t get in your best 11 that just tells you how good that Manchester City team because when a player like him can walk into any team in Europe he’s on the bench on this star studded team. Julian Alvarez will end up completing football at a young age if he wins the treble at Manchester City this season.
Big "if" mate
These guys almost never get one right. Very disrespectful to the millions of serie a fans. CBS sports cast is miles ahead of these guys. They should probably watch and learn from them.
Why you watching them? Genuine question
Thank you Giovanni this is the most pathetic football show on tv disgusting disrespectful pro epl fools. CBS is miles ahead of this shamble of a show. Forza Italia
You have to have no knowledge of football to legitimately favor Inter over Madrid or City. I get that you’re a Italian fan boy but Madrid are monsters in the champions league. You clearly hate listening to people who don’t cater to your every viewpoint so why bother listening to ESPN?
Italian and Spanish football is technically and visually superior to English football which only survives on money to buy foreign players because their domestic players are so bad. English fans also lack intelligence so this will be above them.
Finals gonna be one sided anyway this year's UCL is boring .
Italian team are very strong. Every team have their ups and downs but time will tell after the final.
Serie A players won the euro 2020 against england. Say no more 😅😅
Literally the most pointless irrelevant comment I have ever seen
@@callumatkinson4402 and yours is the second most irrelevant comment i have ever seen
@Fabio Luisi so you agree with me? Thanks for your input 😂
@@callumatkinson4402 does it still hurt? It's coming Home...oops *Rome 😂😂😂
@Harvey Specter I'm not English so no 😂😂😂😂😂
Dan Thomas😂😂
Everyone will be asking me for 200quid
That line got me LMFAO😂😂😂
Bring don Hutchison more
Im old enough to remember when ESPN had broadcasting rights to Italian soccer and they were propping it up instead of talking trash lol
Serie A is very competitive. Four different champions in 4 years - Juve (2020), Inter (2021), MIlan (2022) and Napoli (2023). Then you have teams like Roma, Lazio, Fiorentina and Atalanta who have done well in recent years. Italian managers like Ancelloti, De Zerbi, Conte and Inzaghi are doing very well and Italy won the Euros.
Money is an issue but if Italian teams can sort out the stadiums and build their own grounds I think it will help to redress the balance somewhat. The football isn't all defensive (lazy stereotype). Some of the most defensive and negative UCL winners of all time were Chelsea in 2012 and Liverpool in 2005.
Despite all of their wealth English teams have won only 6 UCL's in the 30 years since its inception in 1992-93 (the same season the EPL was launched) . Italian teams have 5 UCL wins.
Italy had two clubs in semifinal, just saying. It'd be awesome if the "best" league doesn't have any team in the finals.
Craig said serie A all has been?
seriously?
Lauturo,BARELLA,dumfries,,onana,malignant,leap,just to name a few maybe coaches ancelotti,allegri,de zerbi
Wanted to add Dybala, milenkovic Savic, Spinazzola coming back to form, Bremer, bennacer, vlahovic,
The disrespect is Real
@@Rayado_26 like I said just to name a few
you are right maybe bastoni that everyone wants empoli goalkeeper
Last year I kept the receipt from Stevie after Inter vs Liverpool. Today I am keeping the receipt from Craig.
I'm keeping it as well
I watch espnfc for the same reason I liked wwe, for the entertainment. If we had an Arsenal vs Man U in the UCL semifinal we wouldn’t hear the end of it. They did have an “easier” way to the final but so did Liverpool last year and when they won it
Inter,,5,,percent,City,, will,,Win,,5 ,,1
"A bunch of has beens'! Ok, Italian clubs are making the best of the resources they have. Maybe a player like Lukaku or Dezco is treated like a "has been" in England; meanwhile, in Italy he is put in a situation where he can play a clear role in helping a club like Inter stay relevant. Wasn't Inter the only team that beat Liverpool at Amfield in route to Champions League final? The Premier league really struggled to compete with Serie A and Spain for decades until basically "no need to beat teams on the field anymore because you can beat them economically" (with few exceptions Liverpool and Manchaster United in the Ferguson era) . Teams like Man City were not a brand until the money poured in over the past decade or so.
England-Italy is just a football rivalry after the Euro 2020 Final.
Despite Italy being victorious when it comes to the number of international trophies, their club successes are still behind England (12 wins vs 14).
hey stupid guy, Italy 4 world cup titles, England 1!,so better keep it shut.
The only rivalry in european football is between Italy and Germany with each 4 Worldtitles and ita 2 and Germ 3 Eurotitles.england is not in the same conversation as Italy,Germany and especially Brasil
What a joke these people are... Lautaro leaving Inter? In your dreams. 25 percent chance to win? Inter has the same chance as anyone in the final has.
They watch too much premier league. Even without having the same media coverage as premier league, serie a is the best in the world at the moment.
Inter is winning it no matter what!
"they have been disregarded", then they come to italy, play well for two seasons, then the PL comes and buys them for exorbitant amount of money ruins them again
Well duh because they played superbly in the Serie A but then go to a better league and flop. I'm sorry but this has happened to many many players. It's facts
@@v02ones59 "better league", if we talk about the Prem then,probably yes...but not by the margin you and those pundits are making it out to be, one of the major reasons why older players can play well in Serie A is because it is the most tactical savy league on the world, so, usually it is less physically intense for the players and also the experience helps in being more tactically aware right away and gives them an advantage.
Also....why you guys never mention the players that did decent in Serie A and then did even better going from Serie A to the Prems?....Salah? Rudiger? Allison? Cavani? Kulusevski? Thiago Silva? and many others...and i am only talking about the Prem here..because there are many others, all across Europe in top teams that are doing quite well coming from Serie A.
Also, what about the flops that came from the Prem? like Ramsey and Eriksen?
@@v02ones59 Just like Bruno and Salah huh? Two Serie A players who became world beaters in your super league. Sit down
Ale having flashbacks to that time the Roma President came after him for criticising Roma after 2018 UCL SF 😂
One of the greatest extra times I can remember 😂😂
Lautaro scored so many goals with ARG and is in fact their best Striker. And just because of 4-5 average game's (where he played with injuries) they say he needs someone like Lukaku and Dzeko to score. While it ARG he is their number 9!
This is what happens when people become so lazy they only have mental capacity to watch one league. Even then, where is your humility to acknowledge that quality exists outside England?
The disrespect shown here to Inter (and Italy in general) is there for everyone to see. No one made these derogatory comments when Liverpool came up against much fancied AC Milan team in 2005 before the final. No one made those comments about league struggling Chelsea against most inform team in Europe that season Bayern with the final at their home. None of these "experts" also made similar comments against Chelsea again versus City in CL final.
There is a difference in saying, one team should be clear favourites based on investment they have made over the year, strengthening year after year, winning their domestic league etc, but Inter aren't some Estonian 3rd division team either. A team of world class on their own in Onana, Bastoni, DiMarco, Brozo, Barella and Lautaro. When you have those type of players plus a coach who does well in cup finals. Nothing is ever as one balanced as these lazy guys are making it out to be.
Everything has to be in hyperbole, City has to steamroll Inter, laugh and job well done. What an incredibly lazy take, something I have noticed many English pundits or English based shows make.
Let's see, some folks are due for rude awakening
Craig: "So what does that make you?"
"Small"
😂😂😂
Don you are correct And Chelsea would love to have Giroud now
To be honest either city or Madrid anyone that go through to the final have more chance of Winning the final than Inter but in football anything can happen cuz we saw them doing it in the past
Premier League has a lot of money they should be winning every competition?
Where are they
Shout out to Jules for calling Wemby to Spurs lol… exactly what happened
San antonio did indeed win the lotto
You guys don't watch Italian football at all.
Don't tell me inter plays good football
Yes I do watch and it’s nothing special. Bundesliga is better
Dan and his foreign ladies 😂🤝
Yes Craig i actually fell asleep only 1-0
What about the GAME talk about the game that's what you there for
Non of this matters in a single game knock out match. Anything could happen (chelsea-man city, liverpool-ac milan) so this entire conversation is for absolutely nothing
These English pundits will always be sour against Italians, and why wouldnt they. We beat them in every competition and deprive them of silverware. What these teams do with 1/4 of money is nothing short of incredible. Money doesn't buy history, and that's why city is still a small club
And the fact that even Ranieri won EPL with Leicester and an Italian Di Matteo won Champions League for his team Chelsea, let alone the Ancelotti, Conte and now De Zerbi cake walk their league the first time they managed there. While no Englishmen since Hodgson's Inter in the 90s even qualify to manage a mid table club in Italy
Minimal chances but it's a comfortable place to be as a finalist and we enjoy being the underdog. At least, I'll be able to watch it quite relaxed.
I want to inter to win cause it will be awhile before they are back… but also I want city to get their first title…
Well done Don on keeping things level and not media driven one sided.
actually Premier League spends more money than it generates
Craig😆😆😆
It's still good that teams with no money get to the semis against Oil Clubs, so I'm happy that Milan got to the semis, and I'm not their supporters
Inter Will win the final no matter if City or Real qualify. Come on Italy.
If Man City reaches the final, Inter will win this year. But, if Real goes through they will win.
I would like to know how that Milan side managed to knock out Napoli, even Spurs should have knocked them out!
@@husix8876 easy route. All top favourites were placed against each other on the other branch.
Spurs are useless. Napoli are bang average.
Tottenham 😭😭😭
@@TheWefikus bang average like the whole pl league, all that dominance and 2 CL wins in 10 years
spurs lost to Milan, 😂
@@TheWefikus Liverpool lost to Napoli. Premier League teams are bang average.
Dan playing with fire 🔥😂
You don’t need quality to win a cup final, just 10 mins of good football
We expect one of Real Madrid or Manchester City to win champions league but hey it’s a champions league final and I think Inter Milan have a 15% chance of beating one of those teams. Whoever they face Inter Milan will give them a good fight but at the end of the day Real Madrid and Manchester City have too much quality for Inter Milan and they’ll find a way to lift the champions league.
No matter how good city seem to be they always find a way of bottling it so maybe inter can take an advantage of that, however, inter aint beating rma, rma dont lose finals
15??? Almost 40%
@@arsentex1126 Manchester City beat themselves in the champions league and Pep Guardiola cannot help himself because over the years he overthinks and just play your best team they should beat Inter regardless no matter how tight the game will be. They'll lose to Real Madrid they treat every game like a final in the champions league and with this attitude and winning mentality that they have around the football club, I don't see Inter Milan beating Real Madrid but it'll be close they got a great core team but those teams have way too much talent and quality.
@@arsentex1126 For your information, Real already lost a final to Inter in 1967...
How can people be saying stuff like this I don't know, but saying a team will win when they're still far from the final as we speak is so stupid.
I hope it is Real against Inter because Inter has a few victories over them and Man City are just a money machine - Inter have a history full of titles it is silly to say City can just walk in and win against Inter like they've never played a football match before and lots of Inter players did so much for their countries and won with them and with Inter as well.
Bastoni, Barella, Lautaro. These three Inter will not sell unless it's m'bappe money.
oh my god this was so good, specially the dms
I prefer Inter to win this time
WOW this must be the longest I've ever heard them talk about serie a.
If Inzaghi has a better game plan using effective counter attach football Man City will loose it. Man city is very week in defense with especially in the center channel. If Inter have Lukaku and his teamates can beat it easily.
Everyone seems to be forgetting Lautaro was not fit during WC. He's been Great for a while now.
0:01 warra nut that, Craig 😂
Why does every single English media always say other competitions are not strong and always hyping up there own league when City won 4 out of 5 PLs funny enough I predicted City to win it again even when Arsenal was on top in October. Then there is the CL you have like 5 PL teams who won it in past 25 years! That's honesty.
What do you mean five? It's not even 5 bruh it's 3
If that city team is in every league nobody will stop them from winning their league be it scudeto or laliga
If Seria A have city in their league no body will be hearing juve, inter and even napoli.bro city is too good
@@fadafada6198 Nope teams will eventually raise their league standards just like against Juventus and just like you will see in the premier league
Lol,Martinez played brilliantly for Argentina as a lone striker before the world cup
Beats me how non of them can even remember that. But again I remember they are basically just premier league fan Boys. Clueless pundits!
They don’t remember because when it really counted, he couldn’t perform. It’s not that complicated. Stop trying to victimize yourselves over the opinions of others.
@@davismorgan99 he delivered in the Copa America....n has been the top scorer of the Scaloni era....u wanna erase that bcz of 1 world cup campaign?
But he was absolutely terrible at the World Cup! He didn’t score a goal and missed chance after chance
He was injured a the WC 😅
Craig is a goofy
Craig dropped a Beauty line there
15:02 whoever asked them in their ears to chorus that "oooo" made them look silly on purpose
Italian football is strong conpared to italian football over the past 5-15 years, its still battling for the worst of the top 5 leagues.
Ligue 1 and Bundesliga are trash come on
Zero chance. Not taking away anything - it’s an incredible accomplishment by Inter. But just like 2013 Dortmund or 2019 Spurs or 2014 & 2016 Atleti, this is as far as they go - the opposition is just way too ahead of them, whoever it is, Madrid or City - both are juggernauts that will just crush Inter.
Or even Juventus 2017 where they conceded like 2 goals leading up but they were humbled in the final
@@IcyBlueberries that one I must say I was very surprised by. IMO Juve deservedly made it through, were in form, but I’m completely baffled how they managed to bottle it so badly in the final with Madrid. That famous Zizou magic probably haha.
2015 Juve stood no chance tho. That Barca team was a steamroller.
A closet comparison would be 2000 and 2001 Valencia
City "juggernaut " but Inter has more Champions league titles ahahahahah you fans are so cocky
If Real get to the final I think they win comfortably. If City get there, banana skin written all over it.
Don argument for why Seria A is strong this season, is that they can't compete with the Prem 😂😂
Inter a team of has beens ? You would have thought he was a top player, i sense bitterness, i would love it,i really would if city got through and get beaten by inter, many of these British pundits wouldn't know what to do witj themselves
Italian football is not strong 😂. What a goofy statement
Well he isn't wrong
@@v02ones59 2 English clubs in Europe while serie A has 5 Italian clubs in European semifinals lol
Lukaku in the final. Hear that Chelsea, Tuchel!
Dude was injured whole season!!! What's your point? 😂😂
He had a tough season with injury but of late Romelu Lukaku has been really good scoring some key goals for Inter Milan and has been a good impact sub for them. He may not be in prime form but you can see how good he is when he’s on a team that plays to his ability and can get the best out of him. Months ago Inter Milan said that they’ll send him back to Chelsea due to his contributions to helping them get to the final they should keep him for another loan.
@Toba Epebinuade in Italian league?? Yes he was good for Belgium also against Andorra etc. Nothing new. He is not a big team or a big game player.
And 100% I hope they keep him for life there. Don't want to see his face again at Chelsea 🙏
@@benjyjosephb Point is ironically the guy who was a has been under Chelsea/Tuchel is now in the final of the champions league. Poetic justice.
@Hamza Benamar like that he was at United Everton westbrom... basically you have no point considering he hasn't played at all. You would have had a point if he played and scored goals and carried them... he didn't even start the semi.... soo yaa you have no point here 🤣🤣🤣. That's the irony.
Inter can hurt any team in the final
So Julian's PSG wants to play well, not win? I think they're doing very well on that score
End of the I do hope the better team win.I love beautiful football.
Well, City allowed themselves to be beaten by a mid table epl team the last game of the EPL season so they can be beaten. Losses do have a psychological effect on that invincible mentality that gives a team supreme confidence, belief and desire to win
Craig always making wrong arguments.
I'm so here for Juls talking basketball
A guide didn’t win the prem with Leicester, he came after
I love Jules, Ogden, Sid, and Craig. The rest are passengers!
ale is good aswell
Craig was slow on Dan dm joke😂😂😂
I think the euro final still hurt😅
"Someone slid into my dms". It was Juls
They love hating on Italian football just look the disrespect @5:29 Lol
Wemby goes to san antonio spurs
On the podcast version of this Dan ended the show with '..I'm off to delete some DMs' they cut it from the RUclips version 💀
Inter will win
If five different EPL teams made a semi in Europe in one year would craig throw it out the window like it doesnt mean anything? What a dolt
If its so boring craig, you can always get your best mate Rix over
Lol. I remember them pundits dismissing Argentina before the WC just because they dint have hyped players in so called best clubs. We know what happened.
Amazing stuff 🤣🤣
don will always defend serie a 🙌
Omg my dream come true! I’ve only seen inter win the champions league once in my lifetime, let’s go for a 4th!
This is the first time in a long time it feels like there’s not even a glimpse of hope for one final opponent (Inter) to win the CL. I can‘t see them getting anything against Man City or Real. They are at least a whole level above them. I don‘t know I just don’t have that feeling that they are able to beat them like I had with Dortmund, Atlético etc. back in the day
This show had been so "praise EPL at all cost and don't talk much about other leagues". Now it is about "hate all the other leagues, and despise the Italian one". Utter nonsense!
Yeah when Liverpool bayern real psg city play against each other then ofc it’s easier for the other side of the draw
Pessi will win Saoudi tourism award for walking in front of tourists 😅
I see that bitchnaldo metrosexual fangirls still haven’t stop crying since December 18. 🐫
Another Ballon d'Or as well