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First comments fo Stefano Pioli after the defeat against Genoa:

Tough loss with a lot of protests from the fans. Can you understand them? “That people are disappointed is normal and understandable, our results right now are bad. We can do better, today we played a game that meant not taking too many risks. But if you get opportunities and don’t score things get difficult. If we would have taken advantage of those opportunities the match would have changed. Now we go home woth 0 points”.

Are you still in control of the situation? “We are all convinced that we can do better. Now we will work hard in order to get back to winning games, something that we haven’t done in a while now.”.

Why did you sub Icardi? “Because I wanted to change something in the offensive phase, with fresh attackers in the final minutes. From what I saw, the attack didn’t move as I wanted them to do, so I threw in fresh legs in order to make it harder for our opponents”.

When Veloso made his shot the defence wasn’t there, not paying attention has been quite regular now what can you improve? “We are working hard on the pitch in order to correct previous errors. We failed in pushing down, Kondogbia was following Rigoni that needed a lot of attention from our central players. Then they get this shot from 25 meters and we failed and were a bit unfortunate. If Andreolli wouldn’t have slipped maybe the situation is over after the shot”.

How come the first period of your coaching at Inter was so smooth and now things have changed? Is it because the midfield-attack? “Also today we controlled the match, our opponetnts expected that and we tight in their marking. We should have moved more in the non-possessive play, we should have been more patient. The few times we succeded we created some problems for Genoa. We have to move more in order to find better solutions, some positions have to be corrected”

.You shouldn’t have changed something in the model? “We don’t have the players for a 4-3-3, today we played with two attackers closer than normal in order to put pressure and be in the box. This was the best gameplan and it gave us some opportunities which, should we have scored, would have changed the game”.

Ausilio said that he was happy with your work, are these words that give you confidence? “I see some important things for the future. But we have stay focused on the present, we are disappointed with the last results and have to work harder in order to get back on the right path”.