Inter.it gives us an interview with “Il Bambino” Davide Santon who talks about his physical status, the game against Celtic and the club’s objectives:
“Physically I’m in good shape. I’m getting back to full fitness. My nickname? I don’t mind being called “bambino” (kid). I’ve grown up over the last few years, maturing on the pitch and off of it.”
The defender continued talking about the game against Celtic:
“I think we put in a great performance. We probably could’ve managed the game better, but that’s something we’re working on. Mancini has a wealth of experience and has won so much during his career. He gives us such a boost – we’re a young, growing team. We’re determined to win our third game on the spin. Cagliari is a big match, especially as we want to go into Thursday on a high. Having said that, we need to take it one game at a time. Playing at the Stadio Sant’Elia certainly won’t be easy – they have a great coach and are a better team than their league position would suggest. We need to be patient and play our game.”
Santon finished by talking about Mateo Kovacic:
“He’s a young lad and has the talent to become a world-class player. His time will come, mark my words.”
Source: Inter.it
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i still consider Kovacic our greatest talent. Even with the arrival of Shaq. He just needs to get over himself and start playing the way one he can. Or maybe Mauro can teach him how to not give a single f*ck on the pitch. Either way, I’m sure he’ll bounce back.
The thing that fucked him up is defensive responsibilites, since Mazzari came he is constantly under watch of what he does in defense and he is still expected to create attacks and run midfield. Everyone should ease up on this defensive assingments shit and let the boy play his own game, he is enormous talent creatively and he shoudn’t be burdened with defensive assingments..
No one watches what Shaq does in defense, only thing that matters is that he does something in front, same should go for Kova..
Yeah every ball Kova plays cuts their defense and finds one of our strikers…
He was actually pretty good defensively under Mazzarri. Way better than what I see from Kuzmanovic in that department now. Way harder to get past him. But when Kova plays bad, he plays really bad. But that’s confidence-related. He needs to play and win matches again. I hope we smash Cagliari on Monday with him in the squad.
But he also doesn’t peform when Mancini put him near to the striker. he need space to operate. so Strama, Mazzari & even Mancini lately put him in deeper midfield position and if you play in deeper position in football he must have defensive awareness or contribution.
his best position is in the middle, not too forward since it will “kill” his best attributes.
and being in the middle, in modern football, you need to know how to do defensive job, effectively.
So we have an adult who is called a kid, a frog who can’t jump, a popeye that doesn’t stutter (in front of goal XD), a bird killer who has never actually killed a bird and a batman who’s parents are alive…. where should we keep all this irony?
Lolol rano’s twitter name kills me every time :'(
lol:)
Kova wull be world class and hopefully someday…. so will you