Just as last week Inter took another three points this Sunday against Carpi away. The similarities from the game against Atalanta are many starting from Stevan Jovetic being the man of the moment. The Montenegrian striker gave Inter the lead in the first half and when Carpi managed to get a goal in the end, Jovetic was the player that stepped up to score the decisive penalty that gave Inter three points. It can’t be repeated enough times how important it is to have a player in the team that knows how to decide games and who knows how to score in the hardest of times. It would’ve been typical for the last few years of Nerazzurri matches for a penalty like this to be missed but Jovetic once again showed that he is made of the material that Inter has been missing. There are few things that are as beautiful to see a decisive player with #10 on his back play football like Jovetic does and if he can stay away from injuries at least 20 games I think we’ll have a great season.
More than that the game wasn’t impressive from Inter. Carpi tried to hit the Nerazzurri on the break and actually had a good first half. After scoring the first goal, Inter became more confident. In the second half it never really felt like Carpi was getting anywhere. Murillo and Miranda were bossing in the defense and the Carpi players ran offside time after time. I don’t believe it’s a coincidence that Inter let a goal in when Nagatomo was subbed on the field for Santon. Santon had a poor game but I’m wondering how bad Montoya could be. Is he really worse than Nagatomo who in 30 seconds missed out on a defensive run that would’ve kept the Inter clean sheet? The question marks on our defensive wings are many and I hope that the priority on the mercato will be to sign at least a left wing back and maybe even a right wing back.
Talking about the mercato, Guarin who has been criticized a lot was back in the starting eleven and was decisive in this game. Even though he missed a lot of easy passes(as usual), this time the Colombian got Inter the decisive penalty and also assisted Jovetic’s first goal. As we all know by now Guarin has all the potential to become a top player who both scores and assists. If Mancini can get him to stop losing the ball on the middle of the field and minimize the risks and mistakes taken by the player, this might very well be the season “Il Guaro” proves his true worth. After all Mancini seems to have huge confidence in the Colombian player and he might slowly be starting to pay back.
Even though Inter won this game the question marks are quiet many. Kondogbia didn’t manage to get into the game as one would’ve expected and Medel was sloppy as well. Palacio ran a lot but missed a great opportunity. At the moment I’m neither worried about Palacio or Kondogbia. Knowing that Icardi and Perisic are going to join this team makes me more than hopeful for the coming games. I still feel like Mancini can work on the offensive part of the team but Perisic will be a key in all this. Taking six points even though not impressing, is impressive itself and it feels good to embrace the national team break with six points in two games. As the mercato is ready to finish lets hope that we can get the final pieces for the puzzle and then it’s up to Mancini and the players to prove what they got.
Meanwhile, enjoy Jovetic and enjoy Inter winning. I’m in love with the Jojo
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Nice article, we have to start question the effiecieny of Palacio. What does he add beside missing big chances? I think he will definitley be subbed when Icardi and Perisic are back. Nagatomo is also not of Inter level. I also wonder what happened to Montoya. Was he that bad ? It is sometimes not easy to understand Mancini tactics. And why are we not using wingers like Biabiany? These type of player are ideal for counter attacks.
you are right Sia its very important to win even if we are not playing well, we are still quite far from title contenders but we see the potential is there, Murillo and Miranda are definitely going to be the new Lucio-Samuel, now we need to find a good left back, hopefully we can get Ghoulam from Napoli, then its up to Mancini to get Kondogbia to his full potential, if we have this beast in the midfield plus Perisic on the wing who finally we have someone that could cross some dangerous ball in the middle for Icardi, plus the magical Jojo im hopeful we could get back to CL next season and then build on that the next couple of seasons to return to fight for the scudetto
Guys, you have to trust me – this season will be different. Last season we lost so many points against poor teams at the end of the matches. Now, we win games in the same way that they won points against us 😀
It’s time for VENDETTA …. and Champions league of course 🙂
Was hoping Naga would stay out so he could be sold. Don’t understand why Montoya can’t get a game. Our back line needs improving, too many close calls with Handa having to clear the ball at the edge of the box when M&M should’ve done it. Broz is more of a box to box, not playing up front behind the front men. We need some consistent CMs, that can produce game after game.
Good article and good title haha. It is true jojo stays healthy we have a great season ahead. Lets just hope we can tie up some transactions in these last 48 hours and hopefully we balance the squad too.
FORZA JOJO! Kondo wasn’t that bad, just surrounded by a unconvincing mid. Guaro wasn’t there except when he was decisive (three times with the assist, through pass and the penalty) and brozo was just awful. No one really expects medel to do anything except intercepting. Anyway next match should show our true colours
2 goals for Eder today, 2 in first game and i think he scored in european game with Samp. We must get him
Yeah 5 goals in 4 games I believe.
and 1 assist i think
I think they won’t sell him. He’s their key player.
I wonder if we’d see Icardi, Jovetic, Perisic play together. That means either converting JOJO to a winger in 4-3-3, or playing either Perisic or JOJO as CAM in a 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-1-2 formation.
…. Only time would tell, but having those 3 guys all at the same time sounds unlikely to me..
It really isn’t unlikely, Jojo and Icardi are starters and Perisic will for sure be a starter so I believe all 3 will play and maybe add another winger (Lamela), sell Hernanes and play JOJO as CAM, then that works OR we could get Eder and play Jojo as a winger
Looks like Mancio gave the management an OK for selling Hernanes. So I will keep dreaming of signing Lamela.
Proud to watch these guys in our colors.
Mancio turned their losing habit to fighting spirit. Bravo Ragazzi.
You know if it ended in a draw Mancini would have received alot of stick.
He still should. Waiting until the 80th or so minute to introduce your subs is just plain stupid.
The game was going our way and there was no need to change. The only mistake of Mancio was substituting Santon with Nagatomo and I wonder how bad can a player be.
We started losing more and more balls in the middle around the 70th minute and that’s the time when we should have made changes. Carpi’s goal came due to that. If we had introduced Hernanes and/or Gnoukouri in the middle and kept the high line and pressure we would have made our lives a lot easier.
My thoughts exactly. The midfield ran out of steam @ the 70th min. Brozo should’ve been subbed off for Hernanes instead of Naga screwing up our defence!!
Good article.