Stefano Pioli spoke with Sky Sport and commented on his first derby:
Still growing: “We made some mistakes, there are a lot of things we can improve. I’m really happy with the spirit of the team and the fight they put up. A sign of strength to recover from two deficits. There are a lot of positive things but almost as many negative that we have to work on even more in order to get to the top of the table.”
About the team: “We are a team of technical and moral value, I’m happy for the boys. I expected a match with a lot of spirit. I saw more positive things than negative, but we must have greater determination and ruthlessness when it comes to taking advantage of our opportunities. Too few goals if we look at our chances and too many conceded if we look at the opportunities of Milan.”
The relationship with Candreva: ” There is no problem with Antonio, the situation has changed. He’s a great player and a professional. I found him, as well as the rest of the team, much willing to get Inter back to where the team belongs. The past is the past and now everybody has the possibility to make something good.”
Champions League: “We have to think that Inter is a team that doesn’t belong at this position in the standings. Before thinking of the Champions League, we have to work hard and think of one game at a time.”
What didn’t you like: I wanted an offensive team and from that point of view we did well. We could have done better defending one-against-one and to cover the pitch better in the non possessive phase. Kondogbia and Joao Mario could have defended better, there are some situations where we have to do better. But we created a lot of opportunities, we just have to be more clinical when we finish.
Icardi? “We have to attack better in order to get more players around him, it was a tough game for him. When we have possession of the ball we have to pass faster in order to create chances for him, today we were too slow passing the ball.”
About the midfield: “I wanted an offensive midfield, I chose Kondogbia in order to match the physicality of Kucka. I wanted a dynamic midfield that didn’t give the opponents any room. Joao Mario is a really intelligent player that can play any position. Sometimes we were out of our positions, not because of the players but because we wanted to score.”
Pioli ended the interview with reveiling who brought him to Inter: “Ausilio called me, I’m really happy with the atmosphere here, it’s perfect and in every aspect perfect for doing good work.”
Source: Sky Sport
regardless of who is our coach press conferences always sounds the same.. not easy to have a derby for your debut.. I personally saw many positives.. loll
you have to admit it kinda sounds like a broken record
It’s good to have a coach who is passionate about inter. I hope he’s doing well with inter.
He and his family are interista, so yeah it helps understand what it means to manage Inter.
To day Icardi worked like a horse but was suranded by Gomez, Paletta and Locatelli all alone and with Paletta following him in every move and footstep.. So faster passing game would help but above all too fill the box with more players and get the midfielders too overlap with Icardi sometimes too make space!
yeah, midfield overlap was practically non-existent.
Please play gnoukori in front of defence that locatelli guy is no better, rather go with young mangiue then and Ansaldi
I agree with senna, ansaldi seems to be nursing a couple of injuries. You can tell by his movements that he’s not 100% fit.
I don’t think gnoukouri is on the level of locatelli. Locatelli is a little star, gnoukouri doesn’t have the composure.
I think Mario and brozovic should always play in the engine room. I want to see banega reintroduced.
Im tired of this winger formation, I think we can do well with a 4-3-1-2, we have multiple players that can fill in at trequarte… banega, jovetic and candreva. We have enough strikers to try them as ss for icardi: Eder, barbosa, palacio and icardi does best with a strike partner.
Both candreva and Perisic can play as left or right cmf, they have the stamina and speed to play box to box with good attacking contribution.
Finally so happy to see Medel and Miranda as the partnership, solid combo!
Bro he’s not genius, all this is Italian hype watch Italy vs France u 19. BTW one year ago gnoukori was playing this position in the Darby did he do bad no watch him play in China v milan aswell he takes the mic on those milan players it’s all about chance same goes 2 Duncan bannessi.