Roberto Mancini spoke to Mediaset Premium after tonights game against Cagliari and had the following to say: The fear of conceding a goal in the last minutes is always there. It happened against Torino, Napoli and Celtic, but it had to stop sooner rather than later. We defended much better today during the last 8 minutes than we have done previously. The table? I don’t think it’s time yet to start looking at the table, we have to take one game at a time, we have to win and improve.
The dangerous chances that Cagliari created? Up to a certain point in the game the defense managed to defend high up on the pitch and the team was very compact. But as soon as the defense fell back, Cagliari started to create more and more chances. We have to keep defending high up even when we’re tired.
Kovacic? He’s young, he needs time to improve on everything and finally become a complete midfielder, but it takes time. He has very good technique and at the moment the best position for him to play at is as a trequartista. As a trequartista he can afford to lose the ball more than doing it in a more defensive position. Why have I kept him [Kovacic] on the bench? It’s a nice problem to have, having either him, Hernanes or Shaqiri on the bench, this means that Inter slowly are becoming a great team and that is important.
The Europa League game against Celtic? We got a good result with us in the first leg, we have to try to go through to the next round. But for us every game is important.
Source: fcinternews.it
