Matteo Darmian says Inter Milan must shut down ‘important’ Arsenal star with ‘great qualities’

Matteo Darmian has picked retired Bukayo Saka for peculiar praise up of Inter Milan’s clash with Arsenal, labelling the winger an ‘important player’ with ‘great qualities’.

Saka – a two-time Player of the Season astatine Arsenal – has enjoyed different beardown commencement to the run from an idiosyncratic perspective, racking up 3 goals and 7 assists successful the Premier League.

The 23-year-old England planetary besides got connected the scoresheet successful Arsenal’s awesome Champions League triumph implicit Paris Saint-Germain past period and volition look to summation his tally astatine the San Siro this evening.

The Gunners are successful request of a morale-boosting triumph aft what has been a hard fewer weeks for the club, with Mikel Arteta’s men winning conscionable 2 of their past 5 matches successful each competitions.

The northbound London giants are nether nary illusions astir the size of the task astatine manus that awaits them successful Milan against an in-form Inter side, though, who stay undefeated successful Europe this term.

‘We volition effort to play our game, taking into relationship the qualities and characteristics of Arsenal,’ Inter defender Darmian told TMW.

‘We cognize the prime of Saka and the different attacking players they have.

‘We volition person to enactment arsenic a squad and bash our champion to origin them problems erstwhile we person the ball.’

Asked whether helium had studied Saka successful particular, Darmian replied: ‘No, you person to wage attraction to everyone.

‘He is an important subordinate for them, helium has large qualities successful one-on-one situations.

‘But, arsenic I said before, Arsenal is not 1 subordinate but an important collective, of quality.

‘It volition necessitate large teamwork and antiaircraft structure.’

The erstwhile Manchester United full-back believes Inter are successful for an intriguing conflict against a ‘well-equipped and strong’ Arsenal team.

‘We are decidedly 2 beardown teams,’ Darmian added.

‘Arsenal person challenged Manchester City for the rubric successful caller seasons, they are well-equipped and strong.

‘We person won important trophies successful caller years. It volition beryllium difficult, but we privation to instrumentality location 3 points.’

Darmian hopes Inter ‘continue connected the way of growth’ aft a promising commencement to the play nether Inzaghi, 1 of the astir sought-after managers successful European football.

‘The ambitions are ever high. When you play for an important nine similar Inter you ever privation to scope the biggest imaginable objectives,’ the Italy planetary went on.

‘Every time you tin amended and we effort to bash it. In the league this twelvemonth we person dropped a fewer points but we are determination oregon thereabouts and we privation to proceed connected the way of maturation that began years ago.

‘Then whether we are favorites oregon not volition go wide connected the pitch.’

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