APPIANO GENTILE – "Inter will have to be perfect." Andrea Stramaccioni has no doubts about the difficulties awaiting Inter away to Parma tomorrow, the first of the final three Serie A games. In his pre-match press conference the Nerazzurri coach weighed up the size of the task: "We're going to be playing a side in great form, coming off the back of four wins in a row; they are full of enthusiasm and they want to keep doing well. I'm not the right person to judge these things, but I think Roberto Donadoni has done an extraordinary job. It also seems the stadium will be sold out, and it's a ground where Inter have struggled traditionally, but I'm willing to bet that our fans will get behind us tomorrow evening as well. And the fans can rest assured that we'll give it our all, more than our all, to win the game."
All the focus is on Parma even though the derby awaits at the end of the week. "It couldn't be otherwise," the coach affirmed. "We must concentrate on Parma and only Parma for two reasons. The first is the quality of the opposition and the second is that tomorrow evening's result will affect our preparation for the derby and how important it is. I was born in Rome, where matches between the city's two clubs are a massive thing, but in Milan I immediately realised that the derby is an even bigger matter here; it goes beyond the confines of the city because we're talking about two world-class clubs. We can say that the first two warm-up matches with the Primavera team went well for me; now I hope to do well in the real thing too. However, I and we will worry about that only after the Parma game."
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