Interviewed by RAI Sport, Inter coach Roberto Mancini was critical after the defeat against Lazio: “I was expecting a victory to practically secure the fourth place and maintain the hope for Champions League even if Roma is very much ahead. But the team’s attitude during the first 20 minutes was bad and we deserved to lose, but in the second half we had chances despite this chronic failure to score goals. In the end the attitude of the first half was bad and we lost quite rightly.”

Mancini returned to the locker room before the end of the interval: “There wasn’t much to say to the team, in the second half we did better, however, to win or draw you have to score goals and we can’t. I don’t know how many we created, but we miss too many.”

Why did Inter enter the pitch without concentration today? “I don’t know, I didn’t expect that. There was no reason to enter the pitch like that, we had to play a lot better and we did just after the break. There was an attitude problem in the beginning of the match.”

What is really missing for Inter to become the team that Mancini wants? “The situation is as clear as ever; we did too well in the first 20 rounds despite the criticism, but the problem was that we scored only one goal in those moments, we knew we could not stay in the lead the whole championship like that. But we think that the season is positive, as it started we could even have finished third but we didn’t succeed. But I think the team has built a base on which to work.”

A response to Ivan Zazzaroni who points out that teams that doesn’t play win: “These things are not true… The team plays, it creates opportunities, then if we score fewer goals than the other teams this is the thing that makes us less competitive. Our problem is the last passage because we do it with laziness, out of time.”

But don’t the players deserve a lower rating of the coach because of the attitude on the pitch and personality? “We have to improve on dead ball situations, but in general we have to improve everything.”

In conclusion, a reference to Ivan Cordoba in the studio: “If he would have been needed today? Even among amateurs you don’t concede the first goal, seven against two we were stuck”, and an answer to Giovanni Trapattoni who sees the disappointment: ” They did not deserve my anger for a game that would perhaps counted little but that was played impetously.”

Source: fcinternews.it