Frank de Boer will be due Mauro Icardi a pint or two after il capitano saved the day by scoring a late screamer on top of his first strike to win the Nerazzurri the game.
The early exchanges showed a lot of promise for Inter who had the lion share of possession and when dispossessed, they closed down swiftly and kept the pressure on Torino, disallowing them of any golden opportunities. Eder in particular was impressive at the start of the encounter with his pace proving a problem for Torino, who took him down a couple times to halt the speedy forward who was preferred to Perisic, a move most fans frowned upon pre-game.
Our lead, which came 35 minutes in was nothing less than what we deserved. Candreva slipped Icardi through and regardless if Joe Hart made an absolute hash of what was an easy save, Icardi’s determination to keep chasing it has to be admired and he was rewarded with a goal as Hart pushed the ball off of him to give Inter the lead.
In the first half there was very little to fault when looking at the midfield and attack. The defence on the other hand all made a mistake or two, none of which catastrophic barring Miranda’s dilly-dallying on the ball which ultimately forced him in to making a last ditch tackle (which resulted in a foul) on the very edge of the box. Asides from that, the good pressure as aforementioned was seen throughout the entirety of the first half.
Torino had a lot more of the ball at the start of the second half. Inter on the other hand had some nice passing moves all made capable by the fluid off the ball movement made in the Torino half.
Torino’s equaliser just after the hour mark was Inter defending at it’s utmost finest. Seconds after Brozovic missed two chances, Belotti stuck the ball in for the visitors up the other end with help from Inter’s defence self capitulating. Miranda initially failed to clear when not pressured then Ansaldi and Murillo ran head on into one another. Perhaps most astonishingly Nagatomo wasn’t involved in the circus performance.
Inter had plenty chances to re-take the lead but time and time again they somehow managed to miss from yards out and it was beginning to look like it was just going to be one of those nights in front of goal.
With just minutes on the clock to spare, Mauro Icardi (who else?) popped up and saved the day. Having shielded the ball, Icardi was able to gain just enough space to rifle the ball in to the top corner, giving Hart absolutely zero chance and Inter a vital three points..
Inter deserved the win undoubtedly, could it have been by a bigger margin, absolutely but it was well worth waiting until the dying embers and losing all hope for Icardi to smash it home top corner and send the Nerazzurri faithful crazy. If he needed a way to get almost back entirely on the side of the fans, that was most certainly the way to do so. Defensive meltdown aside, it was a good, solid performance from the rest of Inter, which if kept up will only mean good things going forward.
I was thinking about Gabi and why lack of playing especially as a substitute, which I think he is best suited for at this moment.
We forget he is only 20yo and so far this season when we need to make a substitution we are either tied or down a goal. So many coaches would throw in an experienced player in this situation because they feel that they know what to do tactically. Where as a young player will try to force things and just rely on skill to try to make an impact and not think with their head.
Gabi will get his time to play.
I like the way inter play under de boer, but one thing that I always critize was his hate against brozo, against kdog, and others, its simply destablize the dressing room athmosphere, now he has forgive brozo the condition is getting better, I hope he can also forgive kdog so the situation will be more better and the team will be more united. But I also needs to remind de boer that there are 3 quality players (kdog, mario, and gabigol) that are inelligible to play in european league therefore they must be prioritize in the serie A, especially when the schedule is tight, therefor we will have less problem with match fitness
I agree but it’s clear kondogbia can’t play in série A, he can dribble well but his dribbling and passing technique is horrible. He needs to be exchanged in a deal with Monaco for a FB.
You cannot judge him bad just by seeing him playing bad in 2/3 games, he plays decent last year, he just have a several inconsistent playin games, but we cannot punish him just because of that, he needs to come back as regular player since we have tight schedule serie A and EL
don’t think it’s just what we see from outside? we don’t know for sure what’s really happening there, even if it’s true there’s other way these media overheated the scene and made the condition looks worse? we just can hope anything happen inside them can only bringing them closer to each other (coach and players). cause, what should they do otherwise? they’re in one team though…
I fully trusted FDB about his decision on Gabi. Don’t you see how Allegri handle Dybala first time when he join Jube? He got benched for some opening game even it was against easy team. If we look carefully, Dybala even have better experience with serie A, speak the language better, but still got benched. That’s why Dybala take faster time to integrate with the team (don’t forget that Dybala already full preseason with the team also while Gabi just come back after International game). While now you can clearly see how much Allegri need him to play every single game. he become their Messi (based on dependent level, not performance of course). I just simply doesn’t see any reason why Fdb hate him. Fdb doesn’t have any chance in preseason to try Gabi. While in the serie A he always get pressured to win by us fans and bullshit media. How can he bet he’s career on such a young newcomer like Gabi? Once Gabi get adjusted, I’m pretty sure Fdb will love him to play every single game.
Dybala played in Serie A (Palermo) before joining Rube, so it wasn’t surprising he’ll be good.
Yet he still got benched in his earlier time at jube
Maybe if Gabi can calm down and look at big picture, he will understand…
And us as a fan and management only make things harder by keep pressuring Fdb to play Gabi. People realize how hard it is for every coach from outside to manage italian team, yet they don’t want to understand why young player cannot suit italian tactical play instantly.
De boer must give a try with gabigol especially in serie A, we need him, he must try gabi maybe like 20 minutes or something to enhance gabi confidence or he will end up as a looser
I think FDB want to introduce Gabi when Inter lead the game so this kid doesn’t have a burden or pressure when he play.
Lets see about that
I was thinking the same thing…If we throw in Gabi when down or tied and he doesn’t do anything, fans will criticize him and will be seen as a failure. This is something you don’t want to happen to a 20yo player, might destroy him mentally.
Good thinking, thanks!
every time i write sell icardi he proves me wrong, so from now on im writing this every week!!
Meeeh it’s because he does good games once a month or twice and somehow you write that just in the right time hahaha lol.
He’s good but too inconsistent, we need some striker who can keep up the pace during all season not just in some matches !
totally agree with you we should buy texeira kind of player who can score and create goal and plays like second striker behind him,because all pressure to score goals is on icardi…+we need quality defenders
8 goals in 13 matches and 2 more assists to top it off.. how can you criticise him ? His 8 goals is more than all our forward combined…
Well it’s nice to know that someone can score goals on this team becuase let’s face it…..with Perisic being second with a measley 2 goals nobody else is getting the ball in the net !!! with a 25 mill Candreva, 13 mill Elder, 45 Mill Joao Mario and 30 mill Kondogbia for a total of 113 million spent on this squad just on 4 players they still can’t get the job done ??? Does someone want to explain this to me ?Maybe if Icardi were to get more than 33 % of his shots on net he could score more goals OR there’s a concept he could be taught and that is “PASSING TO HIS TEAMMATES” cuz apparently Osvaldo gave him a lesson on it a few years back and he still does not understand.
And how’s your 90+ million fat Argentinian zebra doing so far? Any important goal scored? LOL
Loll
talking about we wasting money, forget he did that too buying fat boy for 90 mil and lost their best player. What an irony
Higuain has got more goals than Perisic – Candreva – Eder – Biabiany – Palacio put together in serie A !!
don’t you see the Serie A standings,,,,at this time last year we improved 9 spots……what about Inter ? well….you guys have moved down 9 spots since last year ! i can see that it’s money well spent: 25 mill Candreva, 13 mill Elder, 45 Mill Joao Mario and 30 mill Kondogbia to be 9 spots worse that this point last year !! Guess who’s laughing now? ME !!!
maybe you are confuse, Icardi is a #9 player, playing as ST, noone else is waiting in the box like him–
So I do blame Perisic (our of form), Eder and Candreva (they scored recently , but all the are not guilty!
Perisic wants to leave can’t you see it in his play ? i can’t blame him for wanting to play CL soccer and he knows he won’t be able to do that with Inter so as a soccer player it’s up to him to decide.
I love this guy. He’s always care with Inter players stat and value. Even exInter players, he remembered.
LOL, yep
Icardi has the lowest percentage of any of the top 10 scorers…..don’t make him out to be saviour of this team….
Of course not. Candreva, Perisic and Eder should’ve done better. Just need more clinical.
Everyone was fired up yesterday, but I think it was mainly because of the president in the stands and Sunnings presence more than it was “a fight for our coach”. I liked the played and attitude but still – we need to be able to slow down tempo and control a game! That seems not to be what Frank de Boer wants, he simply wants the team to keep on running, attacking which is very dangerous and opens up for an opponent to hurt you even in the end of a game.
Italian football is all about controlling your opponent more than it is about “all out attack football” – I mean we had many players going forward the entire game, Brosovic attacked leaving space behind him, the wingers didn’t track much back, Ansaldi went forward a lot, Banega and Icardi don’t do much defending which leaves a team very open. Not sure that´s the right way to play in Italy!
We were needed the goal especially after bellotti’s goal, how can slowing down the tempo can give us the winning goal? I do still remember how people bashing Mancini last season with his ‘slowing down the tempo’ and call him a chicken, doesn’t have balls to attack and score more goals. We need 2 goals lead atleast to start control the tempo
true, but I always have the feeling when watching frank de boer’s Inter that either team has the chance to win and only the one that scores the most wins (not the one that defends or control the game the best).
But if we could erase the brain dead mistakes our defenders keep doing and ad a couple of class act players to the team we could be really entertaining to watch!
The final puzzles is Darmian. And I choose to support FDB. Coz there’s no point in changing coach unless the result still worse.
I´d call Darmian the 1.puzzle! We need to get a quality left full back as well plus a center back with quality too!
Okay I think I get what you mean. We still looks very shaky right? We never see a single game where we can really dominate and take the heartbeat out from the fans. We never get comfort even with 2 goals lead sometime. But I think that’s what make me love this club so much. Winning while we were tipped as underdog can give me crazy pleasure. And yeah dont forget we were never really comfortable in terms of playing style since treble era. Maybe in some games in mazzari time
Yes that’s what I meant… and you’re right we haven’t been able to close down, slow the tempo a bit and be in total control since 2011-2011, and like Juve is doing all the time. And maybe – besides the lack of quality players – our young players will learn how to do it in time (Murillo, Mario, Broso, Icardi are all 23 years old which we forget a lot!
I Think this site no longer had Trully inter fans. People who comment here are full of shit.
You just realise now?
Sad but true
and lately I saw some bullies and racists, some dude commented that he was gonna cut my head, for no reason. the site is getting more popular so pest be coming here we need pest control
If he didnt score the winnig goal, i would bash him cause he cant hold-up/shiled the ball like Maxi did…it turned out he did just that with awesome fashion..bravo MI9.
He needs to improve that aspect of his game, he’s still just a talent with an eye for goal. He’s still far from being Principe, gosh I miss Milito so much…
Icardi style is kind of like Inzaghi but with less concentration, he needs to grow and stop always witching
NagaGOD is back!!, sadly Brozobitch too 🙁
LOL
Icardi is poison to this team. Icardi is lazy. Icardi is stupid. Sell him.
LMAO,..XD
He is lazy
His positioning is awful most of the time
And he’s a trouble maker.
1 goal in 4 games is nothing, specifically when u miss a sitter from 2 meters.
Promise me, you will shut up if Icardi score 3 matches consencutive
Hahahahahahahahahaha Icardi scoring 3 consecutive matches ?
You’re hilarious dude ^_^
And then wait for him to rest another 5-6 matches and let us lose like he did in the four last matches.
You’re delusional…is there any striker in this world that always score every match he play? I already predicted this kind of fans.
Is there any more inconsistent attacker than Icardi, perhaps Giroud ? :/
Why don’t you instead create a fan club of Icardi and stop supporting Inter you know 🙂
In your dreams
Wake up, the dream is over. He played like a lazy asshole again.
Still lot of game..chilled out.
3 consecutive matches huh ? :/
How about 8 goals from 10 matches? Haters gonna gate.
What about Dzeko who was an easy target for some trolls in this site, when in summer we were gonne sell this guy and take him? 10 goals!
Even Immobile has been to score 8 goals, so that’s not a miracle or something.
I don’t know what are you trying to say, because Dzeko and Immobile scored a lot of goals like Icardi, Icardi is shit? The guy had 22 goals two season ago, 16 last season and probably 20+ this season, there is really no argument that’s gonna prove he is not good. Instead you shitting on him, be happy that we have a such profilic goalscorer.
Yeah scores goals, plenty of them (although his conversion ratio is lower than Dybala, Hig, Tevez, Dzeko and etc.) and then for every single goal he scores, HE MAKES A TROUBLE.
For your information, against Cagliari, Atalanta and So’ton, the profilic guy hasn’t even had one shot on target.
And who did, we were terrible in those games… And when striker doesn’t have shots it means build-up play was non-existent, which you could see if you watched those games. Icardi had one of the best conversion ratio in the Europe last season and the best in the league so I don’t know what are you talking about.. This season he scored 62% of our goals in the league, no one even comes close to that, Dzeko, Immobile and Bacca are second at 40%. And that’s with 3.5 shots per game while Dzeko and Immobile have significantly more 4.3, 5.2.
Goals don’t lie, and Icardi scores bunch of them. We scored 13 goals this season, Icardi was involved in 10 of them. Pametnom dosta, rekli bi kod nas.
“then for every single goal he scores, HE MAKES A TROUBLE.”
Looks like u can’t read this part.
Name 8 troubles he made this season? He made a mistake with the book and that is his only mistake he made at Inter. I didn’t respond to it because it just doesn’t make sense.. I gave you statistics that proved you wrong and that’s it.
I dont know if amin is inter or other club fan. You always make full of bullying and pessimistic thinking..
No, but this guy isn’t that good and doesn’t deserve that armband. U guys are only overhyping him.
for all the troubles he’s made, he defo scores goals, and lots of them too. we should be grateful this guy is with us.
Why can´t we score from the easiest chances? And why is the first chance of the opponent always a goal?
We would be top 3 if we were clinical upfront
And top of the table if we have solid defence
Ask Icardi about that ? :/
He will answer you with another autobiography probably LOL !
Ask the rest of the players why can’t they score or why they continue to allow goals? Why always Icardi have to score? There are 9 other players who have the potential to score also.
10, if you count handa can score XD
Last time i checked Icardi was the main striker you know ?
That striker that gets passes inside the penalty area at least 6-7 times per match but instead he just wastes those passes…
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HART THINKS THE BALL WENT THE OTHER WAY LOL
I think he might be looking for the ref and possible offside call. But still, terrible goalkeeping and good for us!
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he turnt him into rosanson
brozo was the best match of this season till now
Yes he was great, and I would add to that Joa Mario defensive preformance was great and Banega also, they stoped a lot of opportunities.
True – I didn´t have much belive in a paring of those 3 but they did really great and with a bit of luck (and more games under his belt I guess) a rusty Brosovic would have scored at least one goal last night…
yep, joao mario was good doing the ‘dirty’ job to stop the opponents
Yeah, missed a sitter, then missed from the goal line! Whatta show!
Where did Senna Miangue go, anyway? I swear he’s been our best fullback this year.
Man FDB looked like dead mummy, he had a great back up on the bench but he stood waiting for the angel of death, I don’t know why we spent that much money on Gabigol if he is not gonna be used, we should’ve signed Ricardo Rodriguez instead.
go? he´s not in the squad because he´s still too young and Santon and Naga have been doing well…(yes I know, even Nagatomo was fine yesterday)
Only those 2 goals justify Icardi because he was obliged to win this game for us.
The midfielders and the wingers put him in contact with the ball so many times and all he did was lose it again and again. To not mention that chance versus Joe Hart only, no pressure at all which he managed to screw it up.
I enjoyed the victory though, the midfield was very good with Banega on fire. And Ansaldi didn’t convince me at times at all, I even thought that Nagatomo was kinda better this match since he didn’t risk losing the ball as stupidly as Ansaldi did a few times.
Miranda for the experience he has, he goes pretty often full retard. You can excuse Murillo because of his age and all that even though he doesn’t do retard shit like that just common mistakes.
I saw him in Atletico doing the same and i’m seeing it in Inter as well.
And I look forward to this next month where Icardi will again fall to sleep, he might have a good match in the next one, but he usually is awake 2-3 matches than sleeps for the whole month.
Which explains rather well our crises. Because there have been so few matches that we played bad but when your main striker is sleeping it gets quite complicated !
Not saying he’s not good, but without consistency even Messi would suck you know ? …
Its pretty ridiculous to bash the Icardi when he has scored 8 goals in 10 games so far this season and everything points to him scoring 20+ this season. He also made 2 assist, so that 10 out 13 total goals Inter have scored that Icardi has directly contributed to.
Meanwhile garbage players like Eder and Brozovic who cant hit barn door from 1m are hyped as great players by you people here.
Get real please.
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here dude take it easy
This is gold
GREAT PIC !!!! Lololol
Murillo is like, photobomb bitches!!!
Someone should photoshop Wanda behind them lmao
This is the reason why Wanda choose Icardi LOL
I think the same LMFAO
Where was he for the last month then ???
This glorious striker ???
It doesn’t matter how much you score because you can score 7 goals in a game and a couple of hat tricks and get to 20+ goals but that means you helped your team only in a few matches !
Brozovic is shit for real while Eder just wasn’t lucky enough because of the lacking playing time and the position which we saw how well he can do in the left wing.
And don’t forget genius that he whole team is build to supply him with chances so if he won’t score who else ????
LOL now you are just making shit up as you go along, hilarious stuff.
But Icardi didnt score 7 goals in one game. His 8 goals and 2 assists has come in 6/10 games this season. Thats not a bad statistic, infact only Immobile and Dzeko have a better record.
Also obviously the whole team is not solely build to serve Icardi, no team does that. As i already said, there are plenty of players who should capable of scoring, but they arent and they are the ones underperming, not Icardi.
Please stop with this nonsense. Its beyond retarded to say that icardi is underperforming.
Tell me then what the fuck did Icardi do this month until yesterday, he didn’t score for a month and you telling me he’s stable, he’s consistent ?
He’s the main striker, he gets all the supplies. Of course he has to score -_-
We don’t have Messi or Neymar who can score from the wings, that’s why Icardi has to score, something which he does rarely.
And that was an example not making shit up. How come that he made 8 goals in 10 appearances when he didn’t score in the last 4 matches in Serie A ??
Because he scored twice against Pescara, Empoli, once against Juventus and Palermo.
But the four previous matches he didn’t do shit, we drew with Bologna and lost in the 3 other matches ?
So from 10 matches he has scored only in 5 of them, we won on 4 them that he scored, but still we lost four of them and drew on 2 of them where he as a magician disappeared in the pitch !
And in the majority of the matches we have dominated with possession, chances created and everything else.
He fucks up even the 1-2 passes the majority of the time.
Why weren’t you talking of Icardi this highly before yesterday’s match because all Icardi fans shut up when he isn’t playing good but one good game and he’s fucking Maradona.
He’s got potential and he can rock when he wants to but he’s inconsistent and that’s why he for now is far from being a good player as you make it.
He’s just an overrated above average player.
there is this app in my computer that you can search any information from it. you can search how many goal that icardi made this far in that app. It called google. you are welcome.
And in that search engine you can find that Icardi was a ghost for the past 4 matches, where we lost and lost even though we dominated almost each game and had chances but our “legendary striker” was busy sleeping ^_^
You are braindead buddy, not wasting more time on your ignorant nonsense.
Icardi make 8 goals with this unstable team, look at dybala only make 3 goals and higuain only 6 (total of them 9 goals), you are crazy thinking that Icardi dont give contribution to the team
Just tell me what did Icardi do in the last four matches, before this one ??
And yesterday he should have scored a lot more, he had way more chances but he fucked up as he usually does but he paid his debt with those 2 goals tho.
Dybala is a winger so you can’t compare him with Icardi.
If you want comparison we can start comparing with Dzeko and other forwards who obviously are better by number but that’s not the point.
The point is that Icardi is inconsistent and that has harmed us, and is harming us continually !
LOL…Dybala a winger. Clearly, you don’t know what you’re talking. Just support the team. If you want bashing Inter players, just choose Froggy, Melon, LordNaga or Dumbrosio. That’s still make sense.
He has the best rates of converting chances into goals in europe
Because he shoots 2-3 times per match, of course he will have the best converting chances into goals.
How come you look at the stats regarding to converting chances into goals but when i give you the stats that he has been a ghost for the half of the matches this season so far you deny them.
Five matches in which he didn’t do anything good, not score, not assist, and matches in which we dominated the majority of them and had chances but Icardi wasn’t on his day so we lost.
Remember the penalty and terrible performance the match versus Cagliari.
I’m giving you facts to all of you while you keep telling me he is lethal and all that nonsense and the 8 goals which surprisingly have us only at the mid table.
Bring your facts and lets do a proper debate but none of you have facts !
Man, time will show you who is Icardi, and you will thx me in the future for defending him right now, because he will be our top scorer under de boer
Dude, when u said Dybala is a winger you already done for (i suppose u watch seria A recently). Dzeko just to be good this season last season he is horrible. It is true Icardi is a incomplete striker, his dribble is too rough, his speed is just so so but he is lethal and have a good eyes to score. Perisic and candreva played to widely and rarely cut in inside penalty box and give a shoot. Icardi is lethal in penalty box therefore he should get decent pass but when he get high mark he should play outside the penalty box to get more ball which is made him less lethal therefore either Candreva or perisic should more penetrate inside the box (but it rarely happened). For me considering his age Icardi is a great striker (number can’t lie) but he should aware his role as a captain of great Inter and try to act as a Captain (enough with spoiled boy).
Okay i was wrong for Dybala, but let’s speak honestly he plays as a winger the majority of the time.
I never bothered to check his position but he is like a second attacker/winger.
Seriously I’m not hating on Icardi, i wish he was consistent but the dude has 2-3 good matches then goes absent for the next 4-5 matches.
This is what he has done since he came in Inter and he has to be grateful of the perks he has enjoyed.
He destroys our actions so many times, fails to deliver the simplest pass.
The match against Juventus was a masterpiece but he is not repeating that match, not in the recent ones.
And Dzeko has proven himself long time ago, a bad season can happen and he is a player that plays for the team better than Icardi.