Inter beat Feyenoord as Bisseck opens his Champions League account

Inter got the start it wanted in Rotterdam and held it all the way to a 3-0 win over Feyenoord. Yann Bisseck scored after just 8 minutes, and it was his first ever Champions League goal. Francesco Pio Esposito then headed in in the 34th minute, before Piotr Zieliński added the third in the 54th.

Bisseck's breakthrough at the back

The first goal mattered most for the way it set the evening up. Broadcast commentary on football-italia.net called it, “The centre-back with a centre-forward finish,” and that is about right. Bisseck did not just open the scoring, he did it early enough to take the pressure off Inter and turn the game into something Feyenoord had to chase.

His 7.58 rating was the best of Inter's scorers, and the timing was ideal for a player whose Champions League scoring record had been empty before this night. There is also a broader boost for Inter, who had gone into the match after losing the Derby della Madonnina to Milan 3-1 and with two Champions League defeats already behind them.

The goals that finished the job

Francesco Pio Esposito added the second with a header in the 34th minute, and Piotr Zieliński settled it with the third after the break. Zieliński's 8.2 rating was the highest on the pitch, while Esposito's 7.78 backed up a tidy away performance from Inter's younger scorers.

The result took Inter to 6 points from 4 matches in the Champions League league phase, with the win also lifting them from 14th in the standings. Feyenoord stayed on 3 points from 4 matches, so the damage to their campaign was immediate.

Inter do not need to turn this into a grand statement. They needed a clean away win, they got one, and Bisseck's first Champions League goal gave it the right kind of platform.