The Nerazzurri are back at the Meazza on Monday night to host Fiorentina in what may be a pivotal point in Inter’s season and their Champions League aspirations.
After the spirited showing against Milan in the derby, Inter then went on to get knocked out of the Europa League in spectacularly embarrassing fashion by squandering a two goal lead to minnows Hapoel Be’er Sheva.
Stefano Pioli’s project can now put the EL behind it and focus solely on the Serie A. The match against Fiorentina will continue Pioli’s baptism of fire but the Italian tactician will realise that a result here can go a long way in setting the right tone to his tenure on the Inter bench. Expect pretty much the same tactics as those against Milan, with either Joao Mario or Marcelo Brozovic pushing up right behind Mauro Icardi and Antonio Candreva pushing inside and not just working on the side line.
Team News
The big piece of news regarding the squad has to be the loss of Gary Medel to injury until at least after the winter break. The Chilean international was deployed by Pioli at the centre of defence in the derby, which means that his absence all but guarantees Jeison Murillo place in the starting eleven. It also appears that Geoffrey Kondogbia will receive an extension on his vote of confidence and will slot in the midfield two ahead of defence alongside either Marcelo Brozovic or Joao Mario.
Probable Inter line-up (subject to change): (4-2-3-1) Handanovic; Ansaldi, Miranda, Murillo, D’Ambrosio; Kondogbia, Brozovic; Candreva, Joao Mario, Perisic, Icardi (C).
Stats
Last Season: Inter 1 – 4 Fiorentina
Last 10 Head to Head: In the last ten Serie A encounters Fiorentina edge Inter slightly having won five matches to Inter’s four.
Player to Watch:
Antonio Candreva: The Italian international winger has been in the spotlight ever since his ex-manager took the reins at Inter. His performance and slightly modified position on the pitch have been noteworthy in the derby. It appears that Pioli intends for Candreva to play a bigger role in Inter’s attacking play.
Officials
Referee: Antonio Damato Assistants: Meli, Barbirati Fourth Official: Di Fiore Additional Assistants: Doveri and Di Bello
Prediction & Authors Note
Prediction & scorers: Inter 2-2 Fiorentina with Icardi and Candreva getting the goals.
Author’s Note: Fiorentina are never an easy opponent, with quick passing, high pressing dynamic football. Pioli will have to ensure that Kondogbia is alert all through the 90 minutes to provide the much needed midfield cover to the defence.
Words: Mo Nassar – Follow him @MNassar
Please do get the cleansheet also…
I’m still waiting for someone to wake me up and say… stop dreaming. XD
viola will wake you up second half 😀
Yeah, I hope Inter doesn’t forget that a match is 90 minutes long. :-))
dude i’m just wake up and i see the 2nd and 3rd goals and it feels like dreaming lol
Juve lost to Genoa, Napoli tied, though BBilan and Roma won it still kinda nice.
We’re still mid table even if we win
IF we win tonight and let’s hope there won’t be another Bersheva here,we will need 51 more points to reach CL!
I don’t want to be pessimistic but I doubt we’d even be top 5 this season.
*61
still long way to go
somethings definitely not right that is for sure 🙂
LoL. I just came just before icardi’s goal. Just curious about him. Don’t know if he is that good. If he cant beat Rano, then no need to buy him LoL
Please make a historic result today .
Make us happy for once
PAZZA INTER
I’m scared when Kondogbia has the ball, so slow
he is good so far tbh
too much touches as always
He is good actually. Good positioning, calm judging, and more importantly simple pass instead trying to bring the ball forward.
how could kondogbia being So calm like that?
wtf i turn on the game and its 3-0 rofl
A simple pass from Kondogbia XD
Icardi really is a useless and limited player :P…. All the haters are hiding (again)?
Good to get some revenge on Fiorentina from last season. Though most of the their goals were due to Handa flukes.
limited icardi lol.. even in my country inter’s fanspage they said that they want icardi out because he cant driblle his first touch is poor and hes only good at finishing.. wtf they could just re sign kerlon if they want some fancy football.. stupid pricks
seems to be a good game to prove Gabi– hope we could see him on the 2nd half-
That’s payback for that 1-4 last year, guys.
we need more goals, honestly
Perisic n JM should have score easily
where is bernadeschi?
Looks like EL was a heavy burden
guys i think we might finally see gabigol in the 2nd half if this score maintained
Are the rumors of him being loaned out true?
if I saw Gabigol then I’ll be sure that it’s a dream..
Cmon guys, don’t slowing and atau high
now I feell genoa fans this week
Fiorentina our new Sassuolo?I haven’t seen this kind of start in a long time+this kind of play!
Let’s go all the way to 7-0 again
fingers crossed!
We got a lot of payback to do against them.
is dis real? lmao
Handanovic the brick wall
i was scared he would get red card
It looks like our players playing with more confidence than usual, first Ansaldi, then Rano, and Dambro.
I am still sure that i am in a dream right now and i will wake up at any moment
we will alll wake up next match
worst case scenario second half
Jesus fucking christ Perisic, how, this isn’t FIFA
Rare to see him does that. Reminds me of Milito.
I still havent put the game on lol can’t tbelieve I’m missing this lol speeding hom now
fuck
Nice ball from brozo to Icardi though
Woooiiiw… MI9… 3-0 on 18′
where the fuck was this performance all season long
not too much useless cross today.. what a pass by candreva, and what a finish by icardi
Damn you Perisic
So, I was wrong and I’m glad. XD
RUN IT UP!!!!!!
ICARDIIIIIIII…
Cool as fucking ice, calm as an oblivious panda
Am I dreaming?
That’s like his first dribble goal I see from Maurito.
Same here
I seen many
dont lie, you.
I don’t care how people say he doesn’t know how to dribble, they don’t know shit, he is a very good dribbler in my opinion, he knows how to dummy and as you saw fool the defender and go the other away all day
agree, It just that most of his goals arent from dribble.
doesn need to he is not an idiot like brozo to do extra shit he is a true efficient assassin
that’s the point of this thread, he rarely score from dribble.
3-0!!!
Icardi. GOALLLLLLL !!!!
Goooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaal.
Beautiful play
good pass broz.
goaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall
OOOOOOOOO THAT WAS CLASS
we are on fireeee
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
WANDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
hahaha I never expected to see dribbling skills on him, amazing!
WHAT A GOAL
LOL
damn how we up two before i put on the game lol
I just hope we don’t forget the match lasts 90 minutes again.
that whats scares me most, typicall inter
Remember when we didn’t know the game started until we were down a goal? Lol
I just got back home
How is that even possible ?!
Am i dreaming ?!
Or i am dead and am already in heaven O_O
We’re… not that bad XD. And earlier today, I thought we’re going to lose…
Good? what is this word you speak of?
2-0 ain’t garantee of victory, this fellas must remember of last week
oh man.. last week we were playing against Hapoel a very strong team not like Fio…
Brozovic on fire baby
great pass by brozo
fio suck
I heard they are playing well in EL…
some say that Sousa will be sacked if he lose this game, so well you may be right!
floppy defence as usual.
little slip n’ slide there
we are having a great time tonight 🙂 first time that this 2-0 happens in this season so early, now we should focus on controlling the game!
yea but they shouldnt try to control the game too much.. just like in israel…
we should humiliate these viola shits, every year they embarrass us ..time for us to have revenge
omg
In LE we looked that way too. Against a far worse opponent.
Are we dreaming? 😀
Fiorentina has entered in the pitch?
A good stream, please? Oh, and how are we playing?
Good. Leading 2-0.
Leading 2 in 9 minutes
http://firstrowi.com/soccer/inter-milan-vs-fiorentina-frs149831?l=1525129990
Thanks.
http://www.sportingvideo.org/20161127/vv583aaad899eb20.09188019-1503811.html
If you can stand the annoying arab commentators http://www.yalla-shoot.com/live/9861/internazionale-vs-fiorentina.html
plz dont fucking concede im still scared …
What a goalkeeper fluke on the 2nd xD
Icardi assist on the first btw, such a useless limited player he is!!!!!!
Candy!
Feel bad for Handa, I say if he wants to leave then let him go and eventhough Broz looks dumb he’s better than King Cobra.
Wow wow wowwwww
what’s happening?? is inter playing tonight?? loving this team.. Forza Inter
wait till the match is over.
what has happened with my Inter? xD
WE ARE ALIVE AGAIN
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessss
OMG what’s happening 😀
thank god it was offside
Anyone got a livestream link?
should have shot with the first touch ffs
Goaaaaaallll
That’s how every team should be welcomed!
just tuned in.. wow… what a GOAAAAAAALLLLLL
mamma mia is this inter
GOAAAAAAL !!!! Brozo!!!!!
plz dont fucking sleep !!! keep pressing!!!
thats the spirit!!!
EPICCCCC
yesss goaaaaal!!
dambro, rano, ansaldi in defense and brozovic and kondog in midfield! wow this is suicide!!! so nobody really exists to keep any defensive position in midfield..
so they will walk through the middle and then face a wall with 3 top defenders plus miranda who seems to be fed up..
looking forward for some red cards and another home loss..
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No match thread?
Start Ranocchia over Murillo. Maybe he can prove us wrong.
Murillo isnt great, but starting Ranocchia is like being 0-1 down from the start, no thanks.
He is more stable than Murillo. Last game he showed us that he improved, so why not give him another chance this time aswell?
Stable? LOL if there is one thing Ranocchia never has been its stable.
Atleast not in a positive way, stable being crap and making silly mistakes every game perhaps.
Murillo has also been utter crap and started making silly mistakes and caused this team to suffer even more. He changed alot. Players change bro. I feel that this time Ranocchia should be given another chance, always see the positive side. He has saved us alot in other games before, i know he has been more awful than useful but its only matter of time players eventually learn which i hope he has done.
Just like Burdisso and Chivu before him, Ranocchia is simply stupid. He will keep making brainfarts for the rest of his career.
Why his contract was renewed 1½ year ago was absolutely insane.
3-0 down
Id choose 3-5-2 or 4-3-1-2.
Handa,
… ,
brozo,banega, j.mario, perisic, candreva,
icardi n eder
Or
Handa
…
brozo,, j.mario, kdog/candreva
Banega
Icardi-perisic/eder
Note: Please give a chance for andreoli
I’m telling you , we need to get rid of all non-italian players, I’m not racist , but honestly, these players don’t have no passion, they look at football as a job and they don’t give a fuck about winning trophies with inter …Their performance is great when they play for their national team though
LET’s ITALIANAIZE INTER ..
Young and up and coming Italians will do the trick. I mean just look at Milan. They are a bright example to follow, unlike us, when we buy kondogbias who are brainless and can’t so called adjust to Italian football for more than a year.
Yea we need more Ranocchias right?
#giovanniSimeone
uncle palacio is proud of him
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HE CAME FROM HERE
lmaoo
I just want to say one thing: we played once 4-3-3, with Jovetic, Icardi on the bench, that was against Roma, and that was like playing with additional player when attacking. I would like to see how we would play without the ‘captain’ for one game. With so weak defence, we should at least score..
We lost against Roma, it was not like it was any different with Jovetic. We gave up more goals than Roma, defense is the problem…And I honestly don’t understand all the hate on Icardi and love for players like Jovetic. He’s sucked the past 4yrs and will go down as a terrible piece of business for Inter. He’s one of our highest paid players, can barely stay healthy, and hasnt really done anything when given a chance. Just give it up already on this guy jeez.
Feel like with a weak def we should play more defensive and not try to attack more. If we commit too many players forward this def can’t even handle a simple counterattack. Also as we all can see being 2goals up isn’t safe with this terrible defense… We honestly need to go with 442 and just play counterattack football.
Erm.. I meant a game vs Roma last season, when Icardi wasn’t playing. Tbh, I don’t rate Jovetic that well, my personal order of strikers are: Eder, Icardi, and then Jovetic (now all of you say: I’m crazy). I just want to say that being a striker you have to be versatile, and not being only a finisher. It’s not a coincidence, we played the best games when Icardi was out: semifinal vs Rube 3-0 last year, 1/4 vs Napoli we won 2-0… Now we face another problem: Icardi is too confident, he can play badly af, and still will start next game.
442? I would like to see it immediately! With Eder and Icardi.
i was just watching the highlights of EMPOLI 1-4 MILAN
Funny how players like lapadula perform , while we lose to an isreali team home and away with all those stars Icardi,brozovic ,miranda,murillio,presic ,eder.benega,handanovic, Israel is only talked about when it comes to politics and war.
Fam….our players believe they are above the team, just look when they want pay rise. We should’ve given icardi to napoli and let him be the example, but instead negotiation started. With that money I would have gone for fakir and lacazette but inter is inter.
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fakir right in the pussy, no I don’t want that player, cuz ima keep saying this shit lol
Wtf Wanda pussy lol
I keep repeating this…Our defense is shit and we’re trying to play attacking football. Idk why people continue to be surprised that we lose. We need to change our style of play and formation since our defense is so bad.
even M&M lost their shits and played like amateurs
In that case we need the famous Zeman
yes you’re right, our defense is shittt (Naga, Dumbo, Rano). at this seasons those plague infected M&M, and the negative result influenced the entire squad.
it was worst than that even the first leg they raped us so bad it should of been 4-0 for them the second leg they came back from 2-0 and beat us 3-2 in our face, total demolishing like they do to the poor Palestinians childrens homes
prediction 3-1 to fiorentina. no hope for this team anymore, we are just too weak defensively i can’t see us winning
Come on, man, where is your pride? It doesn’t matter who you face, you must win even if you are weak and you have problems. Inter has a big oportunity to rise again, the fans must be patient and optimist. As a Manchester United fan, I want Inter to be great again! I want them in UCL (Milan too). Cheers!
Fmm:)))))
obviously i don’t want my prediction to be right, but i can’t be optimistic with these shit players we have . and i think we should forget champions league football bcz it is not gonna happen anytime soon, we can’t even qualify from a relatively weak europa league group
Cheers
I think we won’t even score bro