Inter barely defeated Udinese despite the numerical superiority 11 against 9 during the last half hour. When interviewed by Sky after the match Roberto Mancini had the following to say: ” I don’t understand why, after the two red cards, some of our players stopped playing and started to play around. It’s not possible to say that a game was played much better 11 against 11 than 11 against 9. Sometimes we don’t think. The brain is made to think and should be used. It looked like a match at the end of the summer, not good. The team played very well 11 against 11, Udinese is also in good shape. But the attitude after that is not good, we can not afford that.”
Today there was also a goal by Podolski: ”For the German the agreement is that he will return to London at the end of the loan. But I’m happy for him, because he is a serious professional.”
On the transfer market: any Italian spotted by Inter? ”It’s not easy to find the ones who get the job done. But today we played well up until the second red card. It seemed as if no one wanted to score a goal and then there can be a goal in the melee in the end, as was about to happen.”
Where did Inter go wrong tonight? ”I say that you have to use your head, the ball must be moved. When focused, the team does everything well because they are concentrated. For example, Hernanes is one of those who, along with some others, I didn’t like in the last 25 minutes.”
Finally on the promotion of Carpi: ”I’m happy for the team and for the coach Castori, who deserves it.”
Source: fcinternews.it
When Mancini talks like that, it seems as if he has no control over the players. Are they ignore his ‘sticky notes’ ? 😛
USE YOUR BRAIN with subs and we wouldn’t have had that problem. We just played a tough game against Roma 4 days ago… Hernanes and Kova was running on empty and you still want to blame Hernanes. Please get real Mancini and stop being stubborn with your stupid late subs.
exactly… like you didn’t use it to replace hernanes with gnolouri or shaq
Hernanes was horrible in the last 20 mins
after inter played against 9 man we look confused in the field,
the defense need to workout better, vidic – felipe didn’t convince when the cross came.
thankfully kovacic make an extra effort to cover the midfield area
pazza inter amala !
And the substitutions are made for using, but as i see our coach doesn’t know that. Even Stevie Wonder can see that after second red card our concentration dropped and Mancini have to put in fresh and motivated players. And i really can’t understand, how after so many poor performances Guarin continues to be starter?
This game reflected our players mentality. Childish in every sense of the word – when a team is down two players you should still respect them and play like you’re playing against an 11 player side because in the end all they need is one or two players to counter and score. Mancini is very bad at subbing – but he made the right choice in bringing in poldi and after the second goal the players became very disrespectful. We can’t blame one person for a whole frickin team! They all are to blame but from what I saw – The players were the main factor in our embarrassment today. If you can’t see improvement from the team then I don’t know what to say (and when I say improvement I mean the roma game and how our passing and teamwork has improved)
It’s true that there’s improvement, we were decent against Udinese as well until they got the red card, then lapsed a bit, then bounced back for the 2nd goal and it was almost all downhill from there.
Very unprofessional, let’s hope it serves as a wake up call for Chievo and not a reason for another crisis. We’re 1 point off Fiorentina right now, they play Juventus away tomorrow, and chance is that they’re gonna lose because I think Juve will want to wrap up the Scudetto as soon as possible so they can focus on Madrid. Then we can only hope we beat Chievo, Genoa, Empoli and maybe even Juventus, because I don’t expect much away at Lazio.
Also, if Juventus win the Coppa (and they probably will) – does 6th place qualify for the EL as well?
I think so, I mean wasn’t that what we were going for?
I’m just very tired at the moment and can’t think up whether that was the trick with 6th spot qualifying – the winner of the Coppa already being part of the top 5. 🙂
Lol same here lol – this night has been draining
Sadly not, “Teams finishing 4th and 5th qualify for the UEFA Europa League Tournament. A third UEFA Europa League spot is reserved for the winner of the Coppa Italia. If the Coppa Italia champion has already qualified for the major European tournament by placing in the top three of Serie A, the third UEFA Europa League spot goes to the losing finalist.”
The losing finalist is going to be in Europe as well.. (Lazio). So it goes to the 6th spot.
that’s bullshit… you know cup have only one winner… every other teams will be eliminated… runnerup doesnt mean anything…. 6th place wil go to europe
Exactly. That’s how we got into Europe in the 11/12 season i think
We didn’t get into europe that season i think :p
Yeah, I just realized. Cool though, lucky us.
that’s bullshit… you know cup have only one winner… every other teams will be eliminated… runnerup doesnt mean anything…. 6th place must go to europe…
no wonder, our “beast” captain wasn’t there to kick their butts!!! LOL
Rano would have literally passed the ball to Allan xD but still his presence as captain is better than guarin or palacio
Well, that means Shaqiri is back for Chievo, Hernanes will surely be left out (in order to rest, and to get him to work even harder after disappointing in the 2nd half today).
I hope Guarin is benched again as well, but I expect Kovacic to be rested and Brozovic to return. Mancini should’ve started playing Kovacic more often AGES ago (though he does lack incisiveness and directness, probably because of lost confidence, it will take some time to rebuild that but it will happen if he plays).
How about using your own brain mancio i dont understand why he didnt bring shaqiri for hernanes as it was obvious that hernanes could barely walk after 70 mins.. Shaq is fast n tricky and would’ve been a serious threat for the exhausted udine defense.. At least we got the three points but after poldis gol it was a very bad inter side that we saw.
Also true. But seriously, against 9 players, we should’ve been toying with them. Really unprofessional from the players, no matter how tired they were.
Mancini is late with substitutes most of the time, always has been and probably will be. Should fix it.
Get Hernanes the fucck out of our club for good. As soon as he got a little of his good form back he acting like he is Zlatan Ibrahimovic he messed up so many actions tonight. Matches and titles get won with goals not with chances.
And once again Stramacioni proving that he is a masterpiece coach, even with two players less he had a game plan and his players sticked to it, if we didn’t sack him in the first place i’m sure that this season we would be going toe to toe with Juventus if not winning the title at all.
I don’t care how but Mancini has to make place for Gnoukouri, even in the few times he touched the ball when he got in you can clearly see his class. So let alone those shitty excuses like he is too young and stuff like that. All great players have been great from early age, look at Messi, the phenomen Ronaldo, C.Ronaldo and so many others, there is no reason doubting Gnoukori.
And Mancini didn’t even used the third sub, instead of getting in all the attack force in when Udinese was with to players less, he waits until the 88 minute which he could have even not bother at all to do the subs in that time. He goes all in against Roma but withdraws from a Udinese with two players less. This is absurd but still i prefer him over Mazzarri anyday though.
this is very funny coming from the guy who doesn’t use the full potential of his squad (nor his brain)
another miserable victory which unfortunetly might help this clown to keep his job for next season…
(at least Allan showed how good he really is, too bad Inter’s going to spend 5x more money on operation Touré)
Ooo come on. To me Allan is the same as Medel. Middle class. Does not have anything extra to improve the squad. Why is he needed then
Ok Mancio! Use your head and play it 4-2-3-1 for the next match, with Kovacic and Shaq/Poldi in, Guarin and Brozo out.
Leave us.You are patheric clown !
“For example, Hernanes is one of those who, along with some others, I didn’t like in the last 25 minutes.”.. finally. he need to be bold to these kind of player, player who quit using their brain when they on the field and become zombie. and Mancio, you need to use your brain too, not using your subs even you know your player didn’t do well? wtf dude?
Really my exact thoughts and words as I wrote in the match page some mins ago! As frustrated as me, Hmm seems good though at least he pretends that he clearly doesnt want this kind of show, Just good that we catched the really needed 3 points tonight nothing more
for me, at least he have the same mistake with the player on the field. for not using his subs earlier. smh
Yeah, This is his old bad habit
great respons from Mancini; we won but he’s still not satisfied! Meaning he wants us to impropve ALOT more!