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Inter vs Borussia Mönchengladbach, for the Champions League: preview and confirmed lineups, live

2020-10-21T18:48:57.070Z


The Italian team, with Lautaro Martínez on the bench, makes their debut with the expectation of getting through the group stage, which they have not done in the last two seasons.


10/21/2020 13:00

  • Clarín.com

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Updated 10/21/2020 3:40 PM

With Lautaro Martínez as a substitute, Inter Milan host Borussia Mönchengladbach this Wednesday, October 21, in their debut in the 2020-21 Champions League.

The

neroazzurro

seeks to

improve its

performance

in a tournament he last won in 2010. Since then, only once reached the quarter-finals as the best result in a decade.

Inter and Borussia will play at 4:00 p.m. (Argentine time) at the Giuseppe Meazza stadium in Milan for Group B, with the arbitration of the Dutch Björn Kuipers and live televising on

ESPN

(Cablevisión channels 102 and 621 DirecTV).

📢 |

FORMAZIONE # InterBorussia, questi gli 1⃣1⃣ di partenza scelti da Antonio Conte!

#UCL #UCLegacy ⚫️🔵 #FORZAINTER pic.twitter.com/LwtdlI5eaD

- Inter (@Inter) October 21, 2020

After six years of absence from the Champions League, Inter returned to play the group stage in the last two seasons 2018-19, but in both they had the same fate: they finished third in the stage and had to join the Europa League since the 16th finals.

In the second most important continental tournament he built a good campaign in his last edition, which deposited him in the final against Sevilla, the champion after winning by 3 to 2 the match that was played in the German city of Cologne.

But in the Champions League he has a debt to settle

: three-time champion of the tournament,

the last title dates from 2010, when Inter was led by the Portuguese José Mourinho and had Diego Milito among its figures

, he left Pep's Barcelona on the way Guardiola in the semifinals and beat Bayern Munich in the decisive match played at the Santiago Bernabéu.

The following year he reached the quarterfinals

, when he was defeated by Schalke 04, and in 2012 he only reached the second round because Olympique de Marseille eliminated him.

Since then, they have been absent in the group stage for the next six editions

.

Antonio Conte chose that Romelu Lukaku be accompanied 

by Chilean Alexis Sánchez.

TEAM NEWS 📋 Your Foals for tonight's @ChampionsLeague clash with @Inter_en 🐎💚 # DieFohlen #UCL #InterBMG pic.twitter.com/2vvueFz5wC

- Gladbach (@borussia_en) October 21, 2020

Borussia Mönchengladbach was fourth in the Bundesliga in 2019-20

, its best result in the championship since the 2015-16 season, which was also the last in which it played the Champions League group stage: it was fourth in the area it shared with Manchester City, Juventus and Sevilla.

At the start of the current championship, he only won one of four games (against Cologne, before the FIFA date) and in his last presentation he could barely draw at home against Wolfsburg, which equaled the score with five minutes remaining.

Their star forward, France's Alessane Plea, is once again at the disposal of coach Marco Rose after he was discharged last weekend to witness the birth of his son.

Confirmed formations

Inter

: Samir Handanovic;

D'Ambrossio, Stefan de Vrij, Aleksandr Kolarov;

Matteo Darmian, Nicolò Barella, Arturo Vidal, Perisic;

Erikssen;

Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sánchez.

DT

: Antonio Conte.

Borussia Mönchengladbach

: Yann Sommer;

Stefan Lainer, Matthias Ginter, Nico Elvedi, Ramy Bensebaini;

Christoph Kramer, Florian Neuhaus, Embolo;

Jonas Hofmann, Alessane Plea and Marcus Thuram.

DT

: Marco Rose.

Hours

: 16:00 (Argentine time).

TV

: ESPN.

Referee

: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands).

Stadium

: Giuseppe Meazza.

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Source: clarin

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