Inter coach Leonardo claimed his team’s title hopes hadn’t been affected despite their 1-0 defeat at Juventus leaving them eight points off the top.

Inter do have a game in hand on leaders Milan, against Fiorentina tomorrow. But having won nine out of his 11 games in charge of Inter, Leonardo is still feeling confident.

Alessandro Matri scored the only goal of the game on the half hour, heading home unmarked after Ivan Cordoba misjudged his jump.

Inter had chances late on to equalise and Samuel Eto’o wasted the best, hitting the bar from five yards with an empty net to aim at.

“We struggled in the first half, Juve played a great game, they were compact and difficult to break down,” said Leonardo.

“In the second half we did very well... we played the whole of the second half in attack, in their half.

“But looking at the results of the last few weeks the table changes a lot, we’ve had a good run to get into the fight. On Wednesday we have another good opportunity. Everything is like it was before, there are still so many games to go.

“It’s not a decisive defeat otherwise all our other wins would have also been decisive.”

Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini admitted that Juve had ridden their luck at times.

“We played a great game, we could have created better chances and we lacked a bit of sparkle in the first half,” he said.

“We did well in the second half, we defended well but honestly we could have drawn, although we created a lot of good chances.”