The Italian side take on PSG in Saturday's (31.05.25) final in Munich and the manager believes that European glory would be a fitting reward for the progress his team have made since he took charge in 2021.

Inzaghi told UEFA.com: "It would be the crowning achievement of a great job that started four years ago. We know it will be a very important final and we are desperate to make our fans really happy. We will give it our all."

The coach led Inter to the Champions League showpiece in 2023 – where they were beaten 1-0 by Manchester City – and Inzaghi feels that lessons have been learned from that painful defeat.

He said: "We remember that final like it was yesterday, when we matched a very strong team in Manchester City. On balance, we probably deserved to at least take it to extra time.

"That experience was important – our performance in such a high-level game helped us learn a lot about what we're capable of."

Inter are more experienced than their opponents in the final but Inzaghi think that the wisdom of his players has proved crucial during their Champions League run.

He said: "We're clearly a different team to the one (when I arrived) four years ago. We've all improved and that's mainly thanks to the players, who put an incredible amount of effort into every training session.

"We're a slightly older team, which helps a lot in key moments of big matches, as we've seen recently."

Inzaghi takes pride in the way his Inter team have overcome tough ties against Bayern Munich and Barcelona respectively to reach the final.

He said: "It's been a long journey and we got here step by step. What everyone remembers most is the last two games against Barcelona, but if I go back to the quarter-finals against Bayern Munich, that was incredibly tough too.

"They're a great team – well-organised, physical. For us, that quarter-final felt like a final. Those (last) four matches were played at an incredibly intensity."