Inter manager Luciano Spalletti spoke to Sky Calcio after his sides draw away to SPAL, a game in which they failed to win for the ninth consecutive match in Serie A: “there is both pleasure and idiosyncrasy to victory. It was a difficult game to break through but we done it one way or another and we even had chances to double our lead. We lacked fluidity and lucidity when making key decisions in certain moments of the match and as a team on the whole. In some stages were too slow on the ball when we could have gone forward more quickly and in other moments we lost too many 50-50 battles. When you play like this and the results aren’t going your way you are lacking a little bit of everything: There is no one reason. Sometimes we do everything right and then there are times when we do everything wrong. The conviction that we are a strong side and the mask that requires the single situation is missing. We lower the level of quality required in the moment, then it becomes more difficult when the others are more fortunate than us.”
He was then asked why he substituted Candreva at half time replying: “I have no problem with Candreva. I have twenty players and I have to rotate them all. I changed him to bring on someone who is more likely to score in Eder but I could have changed someone else, it was nothing personal regarding Candreva. With regards to Pastore you guys can keep naming names but I only talk about my players, those that have taken us this far and will take us right to the end. It takes dirty work, soiling your hands every day and making others do the same. Your headline comes from here not from the player who’s at the centre of the transfer market. This way you can determine where you are and what you have done.”
When asked about Icardi Spalletti replied: ” he always makes certain movements: if we don;t then follow his movements or fail to provide him with the ball, it makes it all that little bit harder. He is in the middle of the team and he comes back looking to play the ball he can do more when he succeeds. Then there are games when he succeeds less, maybe sometimes it’s his fault and maybe sometimes its the fault of the team but the single has little to do with it. We are all in when things are going well even more so when they are going bad.”
