Beside psychological Derby of Leonardo (AFP)

ROME (AFP) - Inter coach Milan Leonardo Friday dismissed talk of having something to prove to the former employer for derby on Saturday AC Milan - but he admitted the game between the two rivals would require psychological toughness.

Inter Milan by two points in Serie A with only eight games go and Leonardo, what company with the side red and black of the city, divorced last summer before implementing foot Rafa Benitez on Inter replaced midseasonnothing better than a on his old side would keep.

But "this is not"my"contest." It is Inter and players - I am not looking for revenge, "the State insisted."

Given the proximity of the title race Leonardo said that it would be a test of the nerve for the two teams.

There is a lot riding on this derby-psychological, but speak the decisive mathematical may not if there are seven games left and 21 points to pick up, "he noted."

In tactics, he noticed that the players would be first of all focus after the international break, but which in all cases, a derby is an extraordinary match that goes beyond questions of tactics. Know us each other too well, so I don't think there is much to discover or invent will be. "

Former striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic Inter will miss the game through suspension but Leonardo believed that AC Milan would have enough firepower to watch while his own side hoped having Argentine forward Diego Milito, out with injury for nearly two monthsback in his group.

Coach of the AC Milan Massimiliano Allegri insisted until the derby "is a very important game - but the most important for them than for us."

"Milan will begin for them and if we win we'll be five clear points with seven games to go is not bad.".

However, Milan have a single point from their last two trips to lose some of their momentum and Allegri admitted that "is the major topic of soccer-everything can change very quickly."

Despite this, "we are top of 21 shots of games and we knew that we would not win the Championship with a month to spare, the only Scudetto victory if you four points clear with a game to go"said Allegri.

"Are they optimistic." We are more so, "he insisted".