Roberto Mancini spoke to Mediaset Premium after the successful 4-1 against Atalanta in Bergamo.
I’m very pleased with Guarin because he’s an amazing player, He only needed to find his confidence. This victory gives us some peace while preparing for the Europa League fixture. We still have a lot to work on and we can’t think that we have two victories in the bagage. If Icardi will be available on Thursday? I believe so we tried today but it was better for him to recover since he was to weak to play.
Kovacic remains on the bench the last two matches where the Nerazzurri has won…
I’m sure that’s just a coincidence, Matteo has also played well these last matches.
How about the objective for the end of the season?
Europa League is a difficult tournament this year. There are strong teams that played in Champions League, We need a bit of luck as well. We starts on Thursday and hopefully we can be make it to the final. In the league nothing has changed, We can see in two months where in the table we’ll be.
The teams starts to gain confidence..
We haven’t won in Bergamo for many years, but when you manage to get a result in a difficult match the confidence starts to increase.
How is Shaqiri’s physical condition?
He’s growing and he’s well enough.
Returning to the rebirth of Guarin..
There are things that doesn’t work for other reasons, The most important thing is that he has started to play, and if he score goals it helps us all a lot.
How is everything for the match against Celtic on Celtic Park?
Everyone is available, we have four days to recover and we’ll use them well.
Source: fcinternews.it
now that brozovic is in the picture….kovacic is gonna have some serious bench time!
yes, thats true. I feel really bad for Kova, maybe we can get a nice price for him next transfer :/
I stll would like to see Shaqiri & Kova behind the striker (Icardi)
____________Icardi
____Kova____________Shaqiri
I think now i understand Mancio’s decission to bench Kova as we can see how the game tempo drastically change after Kova, Kuz, and Hernanes enter the pitch.
I remember lot of us complaining about creativity from attacking built up and the answer we can see in this game. When Shaqiri always decide to move direct and breaking opponent’s defense, kova and kuz is prefer to do short pass in the middle of the pitch (in other words slowing the tempo). In this game Kova play as left midfielder who the job is make a move/run from left side and create cross pass, yet he still do short pass/back pass than solo run.
Mancini was right, Kova still not have natural role so he can play in many plot, but the missing piece is:
1. He is not playmaker/second striker, we can see a very big different when he play behind the strikers, and what Shaq doing if play at the same position.
2. He is not a DM (but he like to play in front of defense), why…??? Because he can’t recover ball like what medel do, also he can’t defend and physcically weak when it comes to body contact.
3. At the moment Inter not built up attacking system with slow tempo and do lot of short pass/through pass where i think kova style close to this system.
4. Kova need to understand that every position have different way to play, sure he can’t do winger’s job by playing like he is a classic CMF (same thing happen when he play in other position too).
Feel free to comments…
In some point you are right but Kovacic should learn to play like Box-to-box midfielder. We need he’s speed when he taking on defenders, he reminds me alot of David Silva/Oscar
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Box to Box: Stankovic, Ramires, Pogba, De Jong, Matuidi, Vieira, Ballack.
I saw Kova really like to play in front of defense but not to as DM, he like to dictate the tempo and play short pass/through pass and making short dribble if it’s needed, typical speedy deep lying midfielder.
Yes, Kovacic have everything to be a great player like Deki, Pogba etc..
Seems like guarin got lost in a sea of corrupt mentality from mazzari
Not really…he was inconsistent for all the managers lol
This season had been his worst… seriously and he was great with porto.. I blame the 1 and a half years of mazzari
Mancini started not so well but I’m sure that his knowledge and appeal will get us back on track way sooner than Mazzarri would. We used to have connection with players like Zuniga, Maggio etc. and now we are negotiating for Manchester City players, Toure included. This is just one of many advantages as our style of play improved significantly too.
Come on bro! Mazzari brought back Livorno from Serie B to A! He is way better than Mancio! lol
They might take him back now lol
After City and PSG :))