Inter slump puts season in jeopardy

Inter Milan head into the Champions League semi-finals at risk of finishing the season empty-handed after a late-season slump killed their treble hopes and has left them wondering where the next win will come from.

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Tonight's daunting clash at Barcelona could hardly have come at a worse time for Inter who, since reaching the last four, have lost three games on the bounce without scoring a goal.

Those three defeats handed Napoli a three-point lead at the top of Serie A with four matches remaining and left Inter out of the Italian Cup after a dismal 3-0 derby defeat at the hands of AC Milan last week.

Simone Inzaghi’s team look tired and bereft of ideas up front. Sunday’s 1-0 home loss to Roma was played in front of a soporific San Siro crowd which couldn’t have been more different to the raucous atmosphere which accompanied their thrilling passage past Bayern Munich. “We deserved more and created situations from which we failed to get anything, largely because we lacked sharpness,” said Inzaghi.