Soccer Extreme : Impressive though it was, a lot of Spurs’ second-half fightback at the San Siro midweek can be put down to Inter complacency - the Serie A champions certainly didn’t exert themselves unduly after the interval.Online bookmakers are giving away free bets to new customers signing up ahead of Sunday’s Serie A clash between Inter and Sampdoria which kicks off in the San Siro at 7.45pm.
Rafa Benitez will be tearing out what’s left of his hair if his team produce a display so insipid against Sampdoria this weekend but I’d prefer to concentrate on what Inter achieved in the opening 45 minutes of their Champions League tie with the North London club.
Even if Spurs had managed to keep their full compliment of players on the pitch, it’s doubtful they would have lived with the passing and movement of Inter’s front six in which veteran Samuel Eto’o was again outstanding.
The Cameroon international is in a rich vein of form and scored twice to add to the winner he notched against Cagliari in last week’s bad-tempered affair in Sardinia but Inter are likely to be without Dejan Stankovic against Sampdoria.
The Serbian midfielder has a calf strain and joins Diego Milito and David Suazo on the treatment table.
Sampdoria arrive at the San Siro on the back of a disappointing Europa League defeat against 10-man Metalist Kharkiv in the Ukraine.
Leading through a first-half goal from Hungarian Vladimir Koman, Doria somehow managed to grab defeat from the jaws of victory after the interval, leaving coach ‘Mimmo’ Di Carlo speechless.
The Genoa club have been largely excellent in defence so far in Serie A and also showed a measure of resilience to come from behind and beat Fiorentina with two late goals last week.