Mauro Icardi scored his 50th Serie A goal for Inter by bagging a brace away against Pescara to help the Nerazzurri secure their first win of the season in a dramatic 1-2 win. Together with Samir Handanovic, the Inter captain saved Inter from what could have ultimately been a humiliating defeat, something which is also reflected in the ratings below.
Samir Handanovic – 7: Inter’s best player on the night. Made a couple of fantastic saves which if they had gone on would have made Icardi’s brace pointless.
Danilo D’Ambrosio – 4,5: Wasteful shooting, poor crossing, awful passing & then he falls asleep & gives Bahebeck all the time in the world to score.
Jeison Murillo – 6: Looked a bit off in his timing but made up for it with his never say die attitude & slowly worked his way into the game.
Joao Miranda – 6,5: Incredibly important as the leader of the team in the defense. Cool, calm, collected & intelligent which makes him indispensable.
Davide Santon – 5: Decent in his positioning but was caught out completely when loosing marking on Cristante which almost cost Inter a goal.
Joao Mario – 6,5: Very good debut, especially in the 1st half. Composed when moving the ball about, good movement & physically very strong.
Gary Medel – 6: De Boer called him a pillar of the team & it’s hard to argue with him given his performance vs Pescara, especially defensively.
Antonio Candreva – 5,5: Had a very frustrating evening. Worked his socks off but never really got going yet still managed to deliver some very good crosses.
Ever Banega – 6: Suffers from La Liga syndrome in that he thinks he’s got more time on the ball than he has but still got an assist for Icardi’s equaliser.
Ivan Perisic – 5,5: Was invisible for much of the game as Pescara had 2 men on him all the time. Neither got help from Santon nor offered any defensively.
Mauro Icardi – 7: Missed, for him, an unusual amount of chances but a leader & a captain fights until the end & leads his team by example. Which he did.
Stevan Jovetic – 5: Was brought on in the 77th minute & gave Inter’s attack strength & depth by just being on the pitch despite not being too involved.
Eder – 6: Came on in the 77th minute & played as a trequartista & caused confusion in Pescara’s defense thanks to his amazing movement.
Rodrigo Palacio – 5,5: Also came on in the 77th minute & although his pace isn’t what it once was, he’s lost none of his intelligence. Missed a good chance.
Frank De Boer – 7: Got everything spot on tactically but when Inter were trailing by a goal he showed courage & intelligence by making necessary changes.
Inter’s performance – 6,5: Played well, kept grinding & creating chances despite going a goal down but demonstrated exceptional morale to come back & win.
Antonio Damato – 6: Decent performance, didn’t get any major decisions wrong but most importantly he was consistent in terms of the physical aspect.
i think, the best way for our defense is
Murillo as Right Back
Medel – Miranda as Center Back
Ansaldi/Miangue/Santon as Left Back
NO I would give Banega 6.5 because he had great passing and assisting. 6 ranking is too low for him.
for me Handanovic was the best, as always haha
i only mentioned Cambiasso because DS did so in his original post – just because he is a “workhorse” and runs tirelessly doesnt mean he’s effective at all
one of the few positions where statistics matter is DM – it can clearly show how effective one player is by looking at these two key stats – and as you can see, out of the 48 central midfielders last season (with 20 or more apperances) he is rather at the back on this list
Agree bro. Can’t get the reason of this much hate around him.
it’s a single performance, not a season bruh. Even Jonathan could be good for a match. Let’s talk about reasons after a couple of match, yea?
Very well. Then there’s no need to talk about his first seasons at Inter and his decent performances at Newcastle shirt.
Also when he came back he had a very good half season. Then eventually at the start of the last season Mancio got problems wuth him and almost forgot him. So IMO Mancio is the reason for his decline in form.
Palacio 3.5
He deserved a solid 3 just for missing that sitter *doublefacepalm*
3-man back line with Medel, Miranda and Murillo. With 4 in the back, Medel to partner Miranda and move Murillo to a full back slot. Kdog as the DM with Mario and Banega
yeah, it’s the best way for our defense
murillo is an agressive CB, so i think he can be usefull to be a RB
Solid defensive player?
That description should be pointed to our previous DM like Motta and Cambiasso.
Remember how Cambiasso (together with Zanetti) shackled Messi during UCL semifinal 1 (in San Siro) and 2 (in Nou Camp) in 2010?
Now thats how a good DM should be. What a pleasure to see Messi, arguably the best player on Earth, been totally outplayed repeatedly.
Medel is just so so. Too many weaknesses and mistakes to be rated as ‘Good’ by Internazionale F.C. standard.
Off course, we can’t compare today squad with our champions squad. This player(s) rating -as few as i know- based upon the player performance on the match day.
But, Medel performance against Pescara is hard to say as good but more than bad… So, I say 5 or 5.5 max. Imho
I agree with everything you are saying about Medel mate. DS and others can appreciate the workhorse players. Medel should be starting until we get rid of Melo and get a real regista that can defend as good as Medel and attack better. We do not have that player currently.
he is our sharpest tool
Gabigol hype…really2 hype..XD
gabigoal will take a long time to even reach jojo level let along icardi
I have no problem with him being on the bench, I just don’t want him in our first eleven.
I think we should play like against Palermo, Banega regista, Mario and Kondogbia CM, we can play like that against most of the teams in the league. We should only use Medel as a starter against teams like Juve, Napoli and Roma.
you did see the game? Verre was superb and had 2-3 huge chances to score but Handa got into his way not Amrbos or Miranda…well, we both agree on the fact that the squad needs 2 new fullbacks… When is Ansaldi ready?
Hopeless to find the right candidate. but I hear rumour Inter want to sign another Brazilian..I forgot his name.
Zeco of something like that?
Sometimes still many fans can’t let go the Treble Hero team. They still dreaming we have Cesar, The Wall..etc..etc. But please…like I defend Mauro Icardi, this guy still a good DMC. Remember, 3 last matches we play against counter attack team. We’ll see if against big team that play attacking.
He was very bad defensily and Caprari was having a blast, especially in the 1.half… Still; Verre was terraring D’Ambros appat on the other wing so….
Carpari made a fool of Murillo too, then do u hate him the way u hate Santon?
Actually I belong to those who sees Murillo ad a young talented player (23years old, very strong and really fast running) but when we can spend all the kidney on players we want, I’m sure he’ll end up in the bench unless he stars showing something more than what he showed from January and until now! He’s been sluggish and not centration enough on the pitch (the Rannochia-syndrome) .
But still, he’s many years younger than Santon so gas that in advance.
What are you saying, that all players that play for Chile and won 2 Copa’s should be playing in a great clubs.. Isla, Jara, Mena, Henriquez come on, there are just three players in that team that can play for high quality clubs and those are Bravo, Vidal and Alexis.. And as far as I know Medel plays as a defender there, I’m saying that he is not good enough to be starting DM for Inter. It is not nitpicking, DM should be able to recover the ball on regular basis and pass it further, like Cambiasso and Motta could. Medel can’t even get in the same sentence with players like that.
Dumo worst player, easily seen
he ate shit on the goal again
really?? Why? For not getting sent off? He was so bad, yes even worse than Ambros! The reason why Perisic struggled was also becasue of Santon – he didn´t offer him any kind of help!
“Samir Handanovic – 7: Inter’s best player on the night. Made a couple of fantastic saves which if they had gone on would have made Icardi’s brace pointless.”
well if Icardi didn’t score, Handa’s saves would prove pointless. If we follow the logic..
see this is how you have to think about it. only handa could of saved the goal the one and only but 10 other players could of scored
Well if handa didn’t do that saves, icardis goals would be pointless
For Chile I don’t know, I don’t watch their games. But for us, no, I don’t think he’s good enough. We are very vunerable on counter attacks, not just this season, and he is part of the problem, he just isn’t fast or smart enough to position himself well to break up attacks. When we are sitting deep then he is solid because he doesn’t have to cover a lot of ground, but when we are standing high with the ball like we do in most of the games, then he gets exposed. I hope we get a real DM one day so that people could see how good DM looks. Medel just isn’t good enough for high quality teams. He would be good for Atalanta or Bologna, but for Inter, I don’t think so.
man, the way you describe a DM, the more I miss a cuchu there
I personly likes Kondogbia much better – he´s tecnically much stronger than Medel, knows who to play as a destroyer and has played for years in Sevilla and for Monaco in a 2 man midfield with an attacking mid infront of them… why isn´t he playing instead of Medel?
His problem is that he misplaces many passes, but I think De Boer should work on him and implement him in starting eleven. I expect De Boer drops Medel in near future, he just doesn’t fit his vision of football.
I think he´s passing is fine, and with Mario and Banega around to help him out! Plus, as you inplaine; he´s still very young (23YO) and was a big investment so I hope for him to learn and show Medel he´s the best of them!
Lets bust this Medel great defender myth wide opet.
https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1115197/Live
https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1115151/Live
Click on Medel and tell me is there even one statistical point that goes in favour of his ‘good defending preformance’. Sure, you can’t get the whole picture from statistics but for defending players it shows quite a lot. No, Medel didn’t have a good defensive preformance. His best preformance was against Palermo where he had more offense oriented role, but he clearly can’t play there because he isn’t skilled enough offensively.
I think that people overestimate Medel because we don’t have a good DM for 2-3 seasons now, he just isn’t good enough for Inter, not in that role.
this is how “good” he is defensively…
undisciplined, bad positioning (remember how Cambiasso was half as fast as he is, yet he tackled whoever he wanted, because he used his brain and he was always BEHIND the opponent, while Medel just chases the players) and gets dribbled past way too often. a CL-aspirant team simply cant allow to have players like him, DD or nagahomo in their starting line-up
ps: the fact that “this is what we got” or “he’s better than melo” doesnt really help