Carlos Augusto has urged his Inter teammates to maintain focus after their narrow 2-1 Champions League victory over Kairat Almaty on Wednesday.
Inter extended their perfect European start with a 2-1 win at San Siro, but they suffered a brief scare when Ofri Arad nodded home in the second half to cancel out Lautaro Martinez’s opener.
Arad’s unlikely goal marked the first time Inter have conceded a goal in the Champions League this season, breaking their clean sheet in the competition.
Before Wednesday’s match, Inter had won nine of their previous 10 Champions League group matches without conceding, becoming the only side to record 10 clean sheets in group or league matches since the start of last season.
Augusto eventually restored Inter’s lead in the 67th minute with a sharp low finish from distance to seal the win, but the Brazilian insisted Inter’s performance left much to be desired.
“I had warned [on Tuesday]There are no easy games in the Champions League,” he told Amazon Prime Video.
“We had to handle this better; the most important thing was to win. I could score, but the most important thing is that we got the three points.”
“Every time we step foot on the field, we have to prove ourselves.
“We have to be more concentrated. We still created chances and should have made more of them, but there were also too many mistakes.”
“Everyone thinks these games are easy and should end 5-0, but that is not the case in modern football. The most important thing was the result.”
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The victory means Inter have now started a European Cup/Champions League campaign with four consecutive wins for the first time in the club’s history.
The Nerazzurri have also now won 10 of their last 11 games against their first opponents in the Champions League, with the sole exception of a 5-0 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in last season’s final.
When asked about head coach Cristian Chivu’s frustrated reaction on the touchline, Augusto said he understood the manager’s position.
“It’s completely right that he is tense; he wants us to be fully concentrated at all times,” the midfielder admitted.
“We were too slow in the first half, but we still created chances. We scored twice, but we can certainly improve.”
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