According to SkySport here is the latest news on the injured players in the squad. Joao Miranda has no more problems and has recovered in time for the match against Hellas Verona on Wednesday night, while Juan Jesus is more likely going to return against Fiorentina. Finally there is nothing serious for Jeison Murillo as he limped off in the game against Chievo, but Roberto Mancini does not want to take any chances. Which will most likely mean saving the Colombian for the match on Sunday against the Viola as well.
Source:fcinternews
someone said medel is weak as cb because he is not tall… but you saw he cleared many crosses because he can jump high
Moreover, Medel was the reason why offensive speedsters like Messi and Bacca were nulled. I loved Medel as a CB because his aerial defensive ability, intelligence and work rates are phenomenal. Take a look at last year when #23 was still hovering at our defense. We were really fucked up against speedsters e.g. our heavy defeats against Sassuolo and Cagliari. So my best CB line up this year would be Miranda – Murillo – Medel.
medel/miranda tomorrow, and then hopefully back to murillo/miranda on sunday!
Mmmmmmmmmm – Miranda, Murillo, Medel, we have sweet centre. 😀
Melo
Yeah Melo too but I was talking about central defenders. 🙂
Dude, you forgot Manocchia
And Muan Mesus. 😀
I wonder what Mancini will choose as his main partnership between Miranda, Murillo and Medel. I still think it should be Miranda – Murillo, but that leaves Medel out, and with Kondogbia/Guarin/Melo already having their starting XI spots, it would be a shame to see Medel on the bench.
I still think that Medel is going to be the first option for midfield instead of Melo. I think that Melo is quite a good player and has a great spirit, but Pitbull is a beast.
choosing between Medel and Melo is choosing between a defensive game plan and an attacking one
and mancini’s system favors melo.
You don’t know that yet. 🙂 Melo played there because Medel covered CB position, Mancini didn’t have them both available for DM position so far. We will see, but I am ready to take a bet with you that Medel is going to be DM for majority of the season.
really. what if he doesn’t. what are going to do then?
Nothing. I will be sad and you will be bragging with “I told you, you know nothing” shit. 🙂
yes you already know it. same people who said melo sucks and mancini is a bad coach are hiding right now.
Let’s make a deal! I trust in Mancini’s common sense!
In a normal situation (no injury, no fatigue situation) Mancini will start Medel over Melo.
If that doesn’t happen I stop talking about Melo for the rest of the season, but if I’m right you have no right fanboying Melo.
How does that sound?
sounds good.
Melo lover will end when Melo receive his first red card. That man too like physical contact..really risky red card. Unlike Medel. Well, can we really end Melo – Medel saga discussion?
well he didn’t get any red cards last season. medel got one.
Melo may like contact but he’s not exactly Diego Costa—his experience has taught him where to draw the line
Hope you right. This saga Medel Melo will end in Fiore match. Hope Murilio fit, so we all know the final answer who’s Mancini first option in DM. If Medel play as CB, then I’ll admit owe one forgive to Melo lover.
he will basically be a sub for both position. having that in mind i think we could sell him in January. he’ll bring in a decent price and gnoukouri will be able to be a melo sub.
ohh.. noo.. i hope we don’t sell him.. to win we need a very strong bench.. and I don’t think Rano or gnoukouri good enough (at the mean time) to sub him in CB or DM
i know but i’m sure coming off the copa winning team and such, he’ll probably request a transfer. 10-12m is just too tempting for a depth player. i think gnoukouri is ready for more playtime.
in case of youngster or schelotto level player I agree.. but when we have such a caliber as an option for rotation this will greatly benefit the team.. and remember even though this season we are not competing in europe next season we will, which means a much busier schedule. this means we need top players on the bench as well to be rotated and win games.. we cannot afford mediocre players if we want to win or challenge on multiple fronts
yes then we are able to buy good subs with the european money. i just don’t think this guy is needed currently. we play once a week and i’m 100% he will not be happy be on the bench. it’s ago problems. he just won the copa so who knows. we might get 15-20m for him.
Medel was man of the match (not my opinion) this weekend, and everyone was astonished with his game against Milan. He had great season last year. OK, he is not Matic or Yaya Toure level, but I really don’t understand why you have such a poor opinion of him.
he plays better as a defender and quite frankly he is not gonna start over murilo or miranda. on the DM position i’m sure everyone knows melo over much more things.
so we need to accept the fact that we have a 12-15m depth sub in our squad 🙂
It is true that Medel can be a gambit but Melo holds little remaining value. Yes, the economics will prevail. Medel can provide a decent transfer fee. Melo won’t in one year.
Having said that, Melo is currently crushing the other team’s spirit so I doubt Mancio can sit him. But there will come a time for Gnoukuri…and Medel at DM.
But then again, our plan here is to make CL. For that you need squad depth to play well in Serie A and CL. Not such a good idea to sell one of the best depth players that can provide quality in both midfield and defense.
we’ll see. ago might come into this.
Lol we bought Medel for 11m. Selling him 10-12 is too tempting?!! Your Melo fandom made you blind.
ok.
Melo isn’t exactly the youngest of players. He won’t play forever.
who said he is young? i didn’t.
Well, if we sell Medel and Melo eventually leaves we’ll have nobody to play in that role. That was my point.
i thought that’s where gnoukouri comes in. even alternatively selling medel while buying a replacement (loan-to-buy) is very good.
If you ask this guy, he says play Melo until the age of 40 so he has 8 years!
He rates Medel 15-20m yet he contradicts himself by asking to start a 3m player over Medel.
you are getting obssesed with melo bro
if that what you call being honest :). you and i, know that medel’s current impact as a player is way smaller than last season’s. i think he’s new position should be as a CB sub. with some competition by juan and ranocchia. at the end one of the three will be sold. and i’m hoping it’s ranocchia.
melo doesn’t have anything to do with this lol.
I have never read such huge amount of idiocy in the comment sections before!
Only idiots will fathom benching a player of Medel’s calibre for Melo when both can play together in a midfield 3 that we are using at the moment.
Any sensible coach will bench Guarin for Medel any time, any day. Medel is way better than Melo in every sense of the word. He is more useful and a reassuring presence in the team.
In a 4-2-3-1 (a Melo-Medel combo) will offer far more balance to the team than (a Melo-Guarin combo) for example.
Did you see the final 20 minutes of the game against Hellas where we were run ragged and risked conceding the equaliser? A glaring testimony that Guarin-Melo is not suitable for an attacking 4-2-3-1 formation.
Last season against Lazio at the Meazza, Mancio experimented with a midfield without Medel and we were 0-2 down at home by half time; luckily for us, he realised the value of the Pitbull and quickly restored him in the team for the second half.
Thank God none of the annoying and senseless commenters here are the coach of Inter, otherwise we would be watching Serie A from the stairs of Serie B by now.
didn’t read. not a good idea to start with an insult and expect me to read.
i think Medel will most probably start from the bench against viola and will be subbed with Melo if we are winning
fatigue issue is really serious in viola’s match, anyone who is more fit will play
fatigue issue is really serious in viola’s match, anyone who is more fit will play.
Kondogbia is young and he play over 30 times/seasons..don’t need rest.. jovetic need rest time to ljajic.. i am worry melo get red card and jovetic phisically.. gnou for guarin..
Rest kondogbia also (play gnoukori) and rest Jovetic (play lijajc)
100% agree bro..so that on the next game..we will have miranda, murillo, JJ, kondo, and jovetic at 100% yeeaayy..next game after hellas is fio right? let’s kick some of that purple asses yeeaayy!!
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Wow, you underestimate Verona, right? We need to win Verona too.
I think he doesn’t underestimate verona, but its more like squad rotation. And it’s true that someone like ljajic and gnou also need time to play..
No I’m not underestimating but 1nteristi4ever sums it up. We are playing against fio after verona and we need our players at 100%
+ gnoukori is very solid in the mid and lijajc should get some playing time while jovetic is not at 100% fitness
Rotating 2 players + 1 for injured player isn’t necessarily underestimating Hellas. They will also be without 3 first team players.