Inter’s European dream is over after another bitterly disappointing defeat to an impressive Wolfsburg team.
Here is what Roberto Mancini had to say when interviewed by Mediaset Premium pitchside after the game.
Boos and insults from the stands, what do you think?
“We are as disappointed as the fans. The whistles are right. We had good chances to score, but we also gave chances away and Wolfsburg took advantage.”
What was missing?
“It was a difficult game and we knew retrieving two goals wouldn’t be easy especially because we can never finish a match without conceding a goal. After Wolfsburg scored it became even more difficult to turn things round.”
Whose is to blame for the defensive errors?
“When you give goals away it is because you make mistakes. I believe that Wolfsburg are a great team right now but in two games we have conceded too much.”
“I probably haven’t been able to teach the boys what I want 100% but they are working hard and are giving everything they have to improve.”
Source: fcinter1908.it
Our problem is we need continuity and figure out our bloody midfield situation. Yesterday there were only individuals playing. We didnt run for each other. The most important part of a team is the link in the middle! Both for defence and offence. Yes, our back 4 is disorganized, but our midfield is clueless as a unit. Yes hernanes was alright, palacio was alright, even medel tried but we weren’t pulling in the right direction, not in a unified direction.
What a painful game to watch. Icardi, as good as he is at finishing, he’s one dimensional. I have barely seen him create something for himself all season. 4-3-3 is needed with two inside wingers/attackers on his side.
Wolfburg destroyed us, they controlled the midfield with easy and their passing was superb. They knew where to place each pass because they had a system in place. We don’t have a system.. yet.
If we got continuity, no more big signings or extravagant expectations. Wolfburg won the bundesliga in 08/09, then went down the drain much like us…Look at their history afterwards:
09/10 they finished in 8th place
10/11, they finished in 15th place!
11/12 they finished in 8th place
12/13 they finished in 11th place
13/14 they finished in 5th place
14/15 – current season they are in 2nd place.
I think we need to be realistic. For us to get back where we belong we need to trust our team, trust our coach until he can get our guys to gel, tinker slightly with a few smart signings and then make a run for it.
Inter has always been the hardest team to win with. The hardest team to coach and the hardest team to play for. The expectations are sky high. Lets get back to earth shall we. We were outplayed yesterday, and we don’t deserve to get to 3rd place. Europa league is a good place for our players to grow for another season so at least lets hope for that.
Not playing your star goalkeeper is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen an Inter coach do. I really expect more from Mancini.
Next season should be Inter real NEW BEGINNING. No European distraction and the team can be relaxed and fully focus on rebuilding.
sell whole defence exepr ranno,santon and dambrosio,sell everyone from midfild ecept medel,kova and hernanes…sell fucking guarin
you’re being unrealistic and i understand your outrage. all Inter fans are. but hopefully Inter will stick with their current squad except for probably sales of few top players. Look, these players have gone through 4-5 coaches meaning 4-5 different tactics which they have to adapt more often rather than focus on the game and play to win it. That’s why i am excited for next season. No distraction means more time and the team can be more relaxed. then the team can focus getting back on tract and rebuild for the future.
mark my words 90% of those players will leave us this summer..all of them are just averige players that dont have winning mentality…and if you read calciomercato today you will see that 20 players for our firs team are on the edge and mancini evaluets them…wee need brand new defense…because i cant remeber whan was time we had cleen sheet…now every club can come to us on meazza and score couple goals and win…and that is sad…your team is strong if your defence is strong and our defence is full of holes
you actually believed in everything said? no. i say some of the players deserve to stay and fight another day but that presumably will not include the likes of Handanovic, Icardi and most of all Kovacic. It’s the sacrifices Inter had to make for failing to qualify for next stage and now evidently conceding the spot in next season European championship as well. I don’t make any promise i cannot guaranteed i could keep, but your 90% is just irrational and out of per potion. Believed me, your not just the one that felt every players at Inter now should be sold, but we have to remained optimistic and hope next season would turn up much better.
we will se on summer mercato what will happend…i really hope that im not right..but i think big changes will be made…i dont belive that every player should be sold only 3 of 4 players that played defense yesterday,guaro and kuzmanovic from midfild…that is 5 players from first team plus one sub….those 5 players are rotten apples that ruin everybodies good job
No European football means no good new signings. So no decent defenders and more mediocrity.
The lads had dificulties to adapt your system, don’t you have other options than stick with i? I saw your tactic is more EPL than serie a, where’s your identity as Italian??
I am fan, and this is fan’s voice.. “We didn’t expect Inter play attacking football, nor possesion football or even beautiful football. We just want 11 players who play like a team and put everything they got to win”.
I believe whole fans agree with this..
it proven to be a difficult decision whats much more for these players. Remember, most of these players had to go through 4-6 coaches since Mou left! Each individual coaches wants to implement their own tactics thus forcing the players to adapt more than really to focus on the game. This could be an advantage for Inter trying to change, as “defensive minded” games never attract fans what to say world wide fans? Remember the catenaccio always being link with Inter and i know many Inter fans back then were much disgusted with that system, but at least it does yield some but ugly results. RM tactic are still new, barely few months old. Give it time and hopefully come next season, Inter will have the time and be more relaxed without European competition to worried about. A perfect time to rebuild and start a new.
He knew that he came in time that Inter need the most to make CL next season, in the build up we saw hope at least winning something than doing some experimental tactics under limited time we have. Coppa gone, EL gone, and i can say that CL next season also gone (i hope i am wrong), our precious limited time also wasted since his experimental tactics didn’t work, and the worsed is there’s no sign of improvement to make sure that we still in the right track.
I mean, yes sure we will give him time, but at least he need to let us know what is his real priority since all the output showed that we are going to the opposite of our target.
We’re not even stuck, we’re moving backwards.
We had 1 substitution free at the end of the game. If that doesn’t prove Mancini can’t sub efficently, I don’t know what can.
RM tactics does comes without question. but the damage has been done long before he came. i don’t blame him entirely for that. Next season can we all truly evaluate his performance and the team. This season still very much a Mazzarri’s team.