It was supposed to be a happy night when Roberto Mancini made his official debut at home at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in Milano’s San Siro district. Instead we were treated to a 45 minute long horror show where every single one of Inter’s weaknesses were exposed.
Andrea Stramaccioni wasn’t given a fair chance at Inter and was thrown to the wolves when being sacked after having watched his Inter be demolished by Udinese. So the scene was set for revenge for the Rome-born coach when he came back to his old stomping ground assisted by Inter legend Dejan Stankovic. Revenge is exactly what he got.
What we witnessed tonight was a parade of incompetence and mediocrity at best which isn’t necessarily connected to the result itself. Losing matches is part of the game of football and everyone knew that Inter weren’t in the best shape after a few turbulent weeks. However, the manner in which the match was lost is inexcusable.
Inter dominated the first 45 minutes and should have been in the lead by at least 2 goals but as always the team aren’t cynical enough to make their chances pay off. Despite this Mauro Icardi did what Mauro Icardi does best, namely score goals. Together with Mateo Kovacic, Fredy Guarin dominated the midfield and the entire build-up of play that led to the Colombians assist to Icardi’s goal was simply stunning.
With all these things going your way together with the fact that your side had taken the lead just before the whistle which signalled the end of the first half, Inter should have been cruising. Instead the team collapsed collectively from the 50th minute and onwards. Physically and mentally the team collapsed like a house of cards. If Antonio Di Natale had woken up on the right side of his bed this morning he would have scored at least 3 goals tonight. Guaranteed.
Everyone connected to football has to inevitably at some point or other accept a defeat, but no-one should accept losing due to mental and physical collapses which we’ve seen this Inter go through time and time again. With the legendary treble heroes gone, this squad needs their leaders to step up and it’s painfully apparent for all to see that Andrea Ranocchia should not be in the starting 11 right now, let alone be the teams captain. Fredy Guarin and Yuto Nagatomo seem physically incapable of giving a solid performance for 90 minutes. Zdravko Kuzmanovic has no business playing 90 minutes match after match. Rodrigo Palacio is colder than an igloo and seems finished.
Enough with the excuses, the explanations, the “we want to show you the real Inter” speeches. Get rid of the abundance of mediocrity that is rife within Inter’s squad and replace them with quality. If you don’t then please stop talking about returning to the Champions League or fighting for titles, because otherwise you are just embarrassing yourself, the club and all the clubs supporters. Enough is enough.
Udinese has a better cast than Inter
And also one speedy and fast attacking winger and another one is strong full back who are good both on attack n defend
Sell kovacic, icardi , juan jesus, and jonathan for 100m and after that, we can invest all the money in january 2015 to buy new defender, midfield and striker. Lastly, we should return alvarez, pereira, crisetig, longo, bardi, and botta as subtitute players and rotation system
This team is buile at the beginning of the season, for 3-5-2, not for 4-3-3 of Mancini. Blaming him at the moment is way too soon.
A lot of our players are playing not at their best positions. Dodo-Naga-Jonathan are WB, because they are decent in attacking, but horrible in defence, so NOT FB. Campagnaro is CB, not FB also. Roma sells Dodo because of that. The same for forwards. Looking Kova, Pala try to outpace oppenents really hurts my eyes.
We need at least 3 new players to fulfil the 4-3-3 requirements, or at least give time to our players to adapt that.
I saw clearly an improvement in gameplay yesterday, and I satisfy with that. Please not be so pathetic. Rome cannot be built in one day.
well, I’m not surprised.
from the beginning when Mancio toke over, I already stated that I wont put my expectation high since the biggest problem was the player itself.
I even haven’t watch any INTER games lately since I knew that there wont be much change and it will only get me pissed to see that kind of mediocrity.
you guys should start to let go this season and hope that the new one will come fast.
Im suspecting that there are problems going on the dressing rooms. And one day we will see a fight between 2 inter players taking place during a match.
Hello… Calma…
Here’s my opinion…
We can clearly admit that we’re experienceing very odd situation where already happening for years. If we talk about “Percentage of Probability”, how the hell is possible every single of our players contribute their name to be our new scapegoat…??All OF THEM… When some of them having good display then some others is there to play a role as a new deadwood and they just came alternately to fill those filthy spot.. As your information, “The Scapegoat Slot” is the only spot in our team that never saw empty, there’s always a name stand on those point, can be Campagnaro, next game Rano, next other gane dodo, guarin, nagatomo, and now palacio join the “scapegoat club”… It is circulating like a perfect setup rotation…
we play without spirit
we need a motivator on pitch, like materazzi
yeah, about that i agree with you, because in some times, we had someone like samuel, cordoba, cuchu, or even materazzi who liked to play dirty but at the same time gave boost in our spirits. but in this time, i just see everyone just wanna be a gentleman, rather than a beast…
1st goal was Juan Jesus and Dodo’s fault. Second one was a stupid pass (Kuzmanovic+Nagatomo) mistake. Inter is full of mediocre players.
It was Mancini’s fault. Using 4-defender formation was good, but selection of players was bad just like Mazzarri. If you use 4-3-1-2, you have to use D’Ambrosio instead of Nagatomo (he does not know how to defend just like Jonathan). Plus he needs to play Osvaldo-Icardi rather than Palacio-Icardi, which does not work at all. Even he can use Bonazzoli-Icardi, supported by Kovacic/Guarin. Kuzmanovic is a garbage, so he does not deserve to play for 1 minute. Why Mancini does not use Obi-Medel-Kovacic? Please try following formation in the next game and you will see results!
Handanovic
D’Ambrosio+Ranocchia+Juan+Dodo
Kovacic+Medel+Obi
Guarin
Osvaldo+Icardi
all right. one man stood out and state explicitly it was mancini’s fault. congratulations dude, you’re the first one in here that i saw really stating it as the coach’s fault. utmost respect for you
maybe you can replace rano with vidic. I believe he is lot better in 4 defender
Agree. Vidic should be playing.
And a 4-3-3 is mandatory.
Palacio-Icardi-Osvaldo
yes and mancini passed the ball to thereau
Where is Mancini’s fault? First half, i saw Mancini’s Inter, but second half on the pitch came Mazzari’s side. I dont know what the reason is, but is not Mancini. Anyway, i have thought that the Mazzari is the main reason for team;s collapse, but the bitter truth is, out player are average to crap. Ranocchia is not great defender, neither Juan is. Guarin is not great midfielder, he’s just one poor guy with very bad decision making, poor positioning and no defensive contribution. Nagatomo is for team like Cesena ot Chievo, but not for Inter. Kovacic is too green. Sadly for Palacio, but his time has past. This season he’s a pale shade of himself. I’am still postive because likes of Mancini and Ausilio, and i believe they’ll change the course and get the team off the ground.
so whenever the team plays well it was due to mancini but whenever they plays horrible it was due to the previous coach. what a logic there
The team’s mental state is horrendous. We are clearly missing a leader.
Please God send us another Zanetti.
On the most part u are right. Players like Guarin, Nagatomo or Ranocchia who have witnessed quiet some time in our Club, are obviously stuck in their inconsistencies and their mediocrity. As time went by we had so many chances to get rid of those players. And truth be told there were definitely some chances where we could’ve sold any of these players. Now after so many years of dragging them through the black and blue house, this is the result and the accomplishment they have shown us. The poor thing is that the Management itself made the worst decision ever, for example not to have backed up a player like Palacio. So we will see him over and over again, even if everyone sees that he’s finished. And I thank him for being the most consistent striker for the last two years. But it’s over! Time to invest in some quality. Please no Torres type of player like Podolski, whose best time is over yet too. Moratti said it best. If you want to see good things on the pitch happening, you have to invest in the pitch. Just look at the players we had 3 years ago. This team changed so much. We still had quality like Sneijder and Maicon for example. Now we have Hernanes and Jonathan, wich are both been very disappointing so far. This team has been managed to poor itself out. We need quality asap. 75% of the team is trash. Nagatomo is decent backup nothing more nothing less, Ranocchia should be playing for any mid table team in Italy. Guarin should be a striker in Turkey. Jonathan should be playing careless football in Brasil. Hernanes should get himself together and should be ready to play every match, high level, instead of hurting himself after a mediocre display. Palacio should regain his trust somewhere in Argentina, next to Principe.less
These players are having a chance to play key roles in our black and blue striped shirt, they should be thankful and proud, but are failing miserably on the pitch. j
I seem to have left my last trust to players like Icardi, Kovacic, JJ, Osvaldo, Medel, MVila, Handanovic and that’s it
true but at the time most of ourfans coudnt see how bad they were. to much people wear their pink glasses when they look at our players. when its not about the players, its about the club.
naga, guarin, kuzkuz and jonathan. and ranocchia. are all mediocre fucks who wont grow anymore- we need to get rid of them ASAP
why is everyone surprised by Inter’s results this year? i mean seriously have you seen Inter’s lineup? just go through the roster and compare it to the salaries that they earn and clearly you will see that Inter is an average team and almost all the players are overpaid. I mean let’s take a team above Inter in the standings……let’s choose sassuolo! look at their strikers – berardi – sansone – zaza – floro flores – floccari……. these guys can score goals and look at Inter – Icardi – Osvaldo – palaci o – bonazzoli – puscas. sassuolo has better strikers. Look at their defense – Vrsajko – Acerbi – Cannavaro – peluso……it’s better than inter’s nagatomo – ranocchia – JJ – Dodo. now you would think inter has a better midfield but look at players like Guarin – Kuz – medel – Kovacic? what have they done to contribute to this team? i mean inter’s in 12th place so how much have they offered to this team? THEY OFFER NOTHING !! do you guys think Kovacic is as good as you guys hype him up to be? he’s not…he’s got years until he reaches his potential. Inter got man handled by Roma 4-2 and roma got their asses whooped 7-1 to Bayern….italian soccer is not at the level it used to be but that’s all the more reason that Inter should have one of the better teams in Serie A but it’s not going to happen. Just scrap this team, generate as much revenue as you can, bring all the leftover junk back like perreira, schelotto, Belfodil etc…hype them up sell them all and hire a scouting team to scout players in Lega pro for cheap and start over !!
Hate to agree with you but you are right in most of it..
However i still wonder what you’re doing on this site every single day?
he’s one of us,,seriously
yeap, you’re right.
it just his way to support in a rather unconventional way.
i tell it the way it is ! sometimes i come off as sarcastic, usually i make a mockery of inter but i don’t have to anymore……i just point to inter in the standings and it says it all !!
I guess we all agre more or less with you – the strikers Sassuolo have are all quick players, full of tecnik and creativity – while ours are very static “box-strikers”… And to bring back Schelotto for the wing and Pereira would be fine and cheap solutions.
Next summer I expect a revolution where we sell and bring back our youngsters instead and start building with them, and bring in a few quality players with them – Schar for defense f.x. and the two strikers fro free from Marseilles and so on…
i don’t understand why was Mazzarri fired? i mean clearly he
He what? Answer! The suspense is killing me… ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!
understand why was Mazzarri fired? i mean clearly he
didn’t have a good team to work with and i enjoyed mocking him and his boring ass soccer but c’mon….this team is a 12th place team who has a 70 million payroll and in 12 th place? it’s an embarassment to italian soccer.
well embarASSment to italian football would be when the league champions could not qualify from the champions league group stage
wait, you already did that. hahahahahahahahaha
no, embarrassment is when 3rd last in the standings is closer than third place in the standings !!!
because the referee not italian and you cant pay it haha
Heres my take on it; the only way we are getting into Europe this season is if we win the EL and if we go up against teams like Sevilla, Schalke og Dynamo Moscow, i dont see us stand a chance.
Keep Osvaldo, Kovacic and JJ, sell everyone else. Save up money for some quality players and develop the primavera players in the first team.
Only reason i want to sell Handa is that he doesn’t deserve to play in this poor of a team, Icardi is young but we need the money rather than his sporadical goals. Osvaldo is the only one showing in sign of spirit in this team so keep him along with our two young players i see can be shaped.
Dodo is young too but is dreadful at defending and is clueless in attack. Whoever mentioned we should play him as a winger should let Dodos actions speak for themselves today, specially that 3 on 1 chance.
Our defence is absolutely abysmal, midfield mediocre at best and our strike force has its best chances on the bench for the upcoming years.
Develop the young players, sell the rest of this shit. Wer’e not going anywhere this season, might as well give a lot of time to our future players and get them accustomed to Serie A.
This is just my opinion, I know Thohir rather wants to sign Gerrard, Giggs and all the other 40-year olds in PL..
I like most of you saying. The main problem is that we set impossible goals and pressure to achieve it running us. We want results right now, but that’s almost impossible. Im agree to sell and get rid most of all those mediocre players, but we have to keep at least backbone of 7-8, otherwise is like you start new project and last few years will go to the garbage. We can keep at least Handa, JJ, D’Ambrosio, Dodo, Medel, Kovacic, Hernanes, Icardi and Osvaldo and build around them. Buying 3-4 carefully selected quality players and trying use some promising youngsters like Mbaye, Bardi, Crisetig, Duncan, Benassi, Laxalt, Bonazolli, Puscas, probably Taider. But that’s again needs patience, to find the right coach to develop the project, will take a few years and there’s no grantees for success.
patience? patience is a luxury thing we don’t really have at this club. funny how people just now see the problem is the players even though it was already so damn obvious about it long long time ago
Yeah yeah, you knew everything, we know that. So whats the next step if you’re that oracle you claim to be?
yeah yeah you are stupid on a lot of things, i know that. an oracle? if you define an oracle as someone who uses his brain a lot more than the regular stupid people around then o yeah i am an oracle B-)
Go on, what else am i stupid at..?
I see what you’re saying and i actually had in mind starting a project from scratch developing young players.
On regards to players like Hernanes, he’s not getting younger, is far from good form and is made out of glass, waste of 20 mil, Icardi i just dont see developing into someone world class, Medel is a beast but doesn’t really fit into the Serie A type of football, Handa is worth a lot and we can bring in Bardi and Dodo is a puzzle to me, dont know what his best position is as he has major lacks in both departments.
But above all i just hope that we dont go out the next transfer windows and buy new mediocre players when we have all these young players on loan that we have a chance of developing. If we buy someone like Kuzmanovic we can’t expect development. Trust the young players with some playing time and see what happens, it can’t get much worse than this.