Old Moratti had a farm – Iiiaaaah, Iiiaaaah, yooohh
On the farm he a had a back – Iiiaaaah, Iiiaaaah, yooohh
And it’s a lost ball here, and wrong pass there – Iiiaaaah, Iiiaaaah, yooohh
I dedicate that little lyric to the henhouse that we usually refer to as Inter’s defensive line. I do believe in Andrea Stramaccioni, but his way of organizing our defense just makes me worried. Certainly, Inter played better today than we’ve seen recently. Not much of a comfort with the current result. A handball on Lorik Cana that should’ve been a penalty, loads of chances that we blew. A missed penalty from Ricky Alvarez that makes Pazzini’s ball from last year feel like a kiss on the frame… then again, we can’t escape the fact that the Inter-players hit Federico Marchetti in the Lazio-goal so many times that he must be bluer than a smurf when he goes back to Rome.
Alvaro Pereira keeps on surprising me. Surprise me by his ability to, from the pitch in Milan, make me cry all the way home in Stockholm, Sweden. It does hurt, because I really believed in him when he arrived from Porto last year and I believed he would make a difference in Inter. Sure, it has only been a year, but his flaws are not tactical, it’s quality. He has just about as much feeling for the ball as a paralyzed lesbian woman. I’m not the type to say that Moratti should sell players in every direction, but I could manage without Pereira.
Yet, a man that makes me cry tears of joy is Mateo Kovacic. Time and time again he proves how much football there is in his nineteen year old body. Can you imagine who amazing he will be in three years? Five years? It is beautiful to watch and I believe that Kovacic is a player of the new generation that will lift Inter up during the upcoming seasons. Another gentlemen who made me happy to was Fredy Guarin. Well, you always curse at Guarin, of course. Many of his choices on the pitch are really headless but you finally got to see him make one of his trademark runs where a whole team follows him and then he fires of a shot that would take down an RyanAir-flight, which I’m sure it has at some point, they usually go pretty wide over the bar. However, I hope to see Guarin finish this season strongly and come back with a lot of self-confidence for next season.
This weekend it’s going to get a whole lot worse against Genoa, who wants to make sure they stay in Serie A next year. Inter will also leave for Genua without Pereira and Juan Jesus. Christian Chivu missed tonight’s game due to injury and Ranocchia stumbled of the pitch aswell. If were really lucky we might see Simone Pasa and Lukas Spendlhofer line up the central defense on Sunday. A last little tribute to the Curva Nord who confronted the leaderboard on how Inter are being managed at this point. A classy touch on the day that it stands clear that Inter won’t reach the Euro League this year.
