Inter coach Luciano Spalletti and his Genoa counterpart Davide Ballardini have decided to field the following 22 players in tonight’s Serie A fixture at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris in the city’s Marassi district with kick-off scheduled for 20.45 CET.
Spalletti has decided to replace the injured Joao Miranda with former Genoa player Andrea Ranocchia, whilst opting to start with Matias Vecino and Roberto Gagliardini in the middle of the pitch with former Fiorentina player Borja Valero as a support man behind Eder up front. This means that January signing Rafinha will have to wait at least one more week before making his starting debut for the Nerazzurri.
Yann Karamoh starts on the left side of Eder replacing the injured Ivan Perisic whilst Antonio Candreva returns to the starting line-up in his usual right wing position.
The line-ups:
Genoa (3-5-2): Perin; Rossettini, Spolli, Zukanovic; Rosi, Bessa, Bertolacci, Hiljemark, Laxalt; Pandev, Galabinov.
Inter (4-2-3-1): Samir Handanovic; Joao Cancelo, Milan Skriniar, Andrea Ranocchia, Danilo D’Ambrosio; Matias Vecino, Roberto Gagliardini; Antonio Candreva, Borja Valero, Yann Karamoh; Eder.
How is it that our players who have been here less than a year are the only ones fighting. Cancelo, Karamoh, Rafinha, and Skrinir…
Where are our ‘leaders’ who should be urging us on?
Funny how we concede goals by the people we sold because they were ‘no longer fit’ for Inter. Total disgrace.
if cambiasso or zanetti would go outside today in the park to play some ball they would play better than any player we have right now.
You’re never gonna win with Rano, Dumbo, Candreva and Gaglia on the field together. Every area in the formation is hampered by these players. Coherent football is lost on them.
No surprise that we have had most of the ball since Rafinha came on… why he didn’t start is a mystery. He may not have 90 min but play him from the start. Better to set the play rather than chase it late
This is Inter my friend. Logic does not apply in this club
that’s what I was asking earlier … to start with rafinha and later borja comes in.
OMG wow, Valero & Candreva actually subbed off … took Spalletti until February to figure that out
Some things should just be seen by the management, how dumb you have to be to not learn from the mistakes like buying Hernanes from Lazio, just 2 years later we go and repeat the same mistake by buying an old Candreva that doesn’t offer anything at all -_-
Brozobitch on
Valero has become useless,we talk alot about Candreva but Valero is right behind him
Valero Candreva gaglia vecino dumbo are all useless. Eder and brozo not far
as I still do have hope for us stealing a point here.. Spalletti is far from saving… so, why dont we introduce Pinamonti in just for the sake of it…
amen
He is playing now
They are walking on the field although were two goals down
OMG Its the same shit every time, we never buy any good players and if we do, ie gabriel coutinho,joao mario banega,we sell them the first chance we get or we make them ride the bench
7 years of Rano naga and other dumbo
Inter started playing football on the 60th minute and it’s all spalletti to blame.
Two things I learned from watching this match: 1. Valero isnt a trequartista. 2. Eder is completely worthless.
bring on Pinamonti. at least he would gain some experience
Spaletti out guys. He could have come onto the field himself and prevented the own goal. He could have used his telepathic ability to stop all the mistakes. Should have fielded a dead Icardi and Miranda. Damn him.
Spaletti out, Montella in.
Isn’t Montella @ Sevilla?
I hope u still support him until last, because I see this team has no future under him
I’m not a dumbass that’s gonna want to change the coach mid season. Not when we’re in the top 4
So you think this team has future? You think we will able to keep in the top 4? Well goodluck with that
only 5 teams have performed worse than us in the last 10 games and hint hint those are the ones deep in the relegation zone…while Spalletti did have a great start unless he can turn things around in the next 1-2 games we need to seriously consider a parting of ways because at some point the coach needs to find a solution…problem is that right after Benevento there is Milan, Napoli and Sampdoria so not easy for anyone stepping in ahead of the International break…
We will be happy if he can train proper the squad and we can stop to cross the ball hundred times per game. It would be nice. Would be nice too, if we start to play some football and have some idea in our play, don’t you think? And if he start use his substitutions before 85 minute, will be great too!
I know right. All we need is Montella and we’re set for 8th.
No, we just need coach with brain!
They’re just there for the taking.
I am only watching for karamoah, rafinha and cancelo.
If we don’t keep cancelo and Rafinha I put a price on baldy head
I wont bet my money on baldy, After all he is educated by Branca and fassone.
Just watching kara and rafinha
That’s the only reason I am still watching this game
Cancelo is good too
Forgot to mention him
at this stage even I can be a better coach than Spalletti. he can’t even select a good starting 11
Hurt to watch ………
Why would Candreva use his left fakkkkkk he’s so dumb
Candyshit is honestly one dimension crosser
No brain at all
Regret watching the first half
Look at dumbo plus rano
These two alone are enough
How can you consistently lose to players that are worse tHan you
Pandev > Rano
Rossi > Candreva
if suning cant sign one single worldclass player they should really sign d. siemone next season. enough is enough.
only coach who can turn so many nonames into worldclass players every club wants, reaching cl knock out stages or even more permanently. nobody would have dreamed of that before he took over in madrid… we really need him
safe all the money for mediocore now and give all to diego :I
why would any decent coach come to Inter?
lol simeone is a great character. u dont seem to know him. definately he will come to inter one day. it has not so much to do with the status of inter if he will come 😉
Candreva is horrible to watch. Fucking dumb not selling him to Chelsea when we had the chance
Why not just shut the club down at this point already!
I’d rather live happily knowing I’ve been a fan of Inter and they had to shut it down than experience this pain game after game, season after season. Because it’s not like we’re not investing in players. We have stupid management and shitty players even though we pay ridiculous amounts for them!
Everyone gives up in playing
Just look at gali, candrashit, dumboshit
Bunch of morons
Rafinha should start every fucking game
Bring on Rafinha now at the 61 minute …. should have been on to start the second half
60 minutes late sub!
Spalletti is a stupid clown and absolute coward. I don’t know what he’s doing in training, but we’re the easiest team to read in the world.
Amen!
No flair anywhere
But its been how many coaches time to send away the other baldy first
Our management is as stupid as him, when we were hiring only shit coaches and buying Gabigol for 30 millions, Joao Mario for 40, Dalbert for 28, Candreva for 25, etc., etc.
Shame that we gave up on Laxalt so quickly, he’s far better than all our FBs
Lm
Take off Valero for gods sake
I dont see any comeback sadly. But I will still watch with a heavy heart…
Bye skriniar + icardi.
Let’s bet how much their total price?
Sad thing is no muscle to come back
guess what’s inside of Spalletti’s head right now….
He was waiting for Genoa to score again so he can make the change and they did.
“SH*T i forgot we got Lopez in our team..why did I start Rano… F**k”
Probably how to defend to not concede more goals!
he plays the same damn formation and strategy for all of our matches..well he tried to spice things up a bit the last matches..but its just not enough so late after every team in the seria A already know how to counter his strategy
Spalletti should fucking resign!!! 2 down ag shitty Genoa and playing like Serie C team.
honestly the question about pandev was just when… but why is he celebrating so much ….
4 inter’s players 2 assist 2 goals, score gen 2 inter 0… logic
Rano or Gaglia ? Anyway fuck all these Italian players they’re shit
this season is over now. I go to sleep. what a waste of my time watching this disgusting team.
Spalletti has lost the plot…is this really the best team he can put on the field at the moment??? Really???? Use your head baldie!!!!
What team what plan
He waited too long to bring on Rafinha…not sure if all this caution is warranted given how we are now set to end the weekend out of the CL spots…lucky as it is that both Roma and Lazio are going through their own issues…only 5 teams have performed worse than us in the last 10 games…
The points collected is the same as pussioli shame on spalletti
rano is such a clown…
Congrats genoa, you deserve to win
So now 10 times in a row we lost here
Why continue to take corners near post when we have alot of tall players
Goodbye Champions League.
Lol
Wow, we have absolutely no luck.
Another injury great
If only we had a player who was good at freekicks… perhaps selling them for £9m was not the best
Typical inter leaving the best on the benvh
Typical inter leaving the best on the bench
Top quality set plays here…
BRING RAFINHA DALBERT BROZO
where is Rafinha?????
Cancelo is a savior
Laxalt was with us. now he is doing so well in Serie a while we are struck with Nagatomo, Santon as left backs
laxalt is LM and nagatomo prefered to be loaned for some time coz he preferes wc than helping inter where he plays for 8 years in a period where he is even under our best fullbacks lol
this is the kind of mercenaries we are having these days but still playin years for our club. only go away for a loan when its their own profit…..
Watching valero as AM after watching Eriksen and D. Alli beautifully play as attacking midfielders on the totenham vs rube match few days ago makes me wonder what the hell kind of midfielder we have?
Shit midfield except Rafinha
And then Rafinha got injured by Nainggolan heavy tackle again.. rip rafinha
I can’t wait the milan derby. I hope F. Kessie would not break his leg.
Blame the baldy coach.. actually we have rafinha and karamoh..but you know what happened..
Valero origin position is not CAM, he is a CM, and unfortunately spaletti doesnt know the different of that
That’s exactly my point. We all know, valero would be fit to play as CM like Pirlo. I won’t blame spaleti tho since rafinha is not 100% fit and brozo got the punishment from the management. Spaleti has no choice this time. I think he just wanted to try this while playing safe in the 1st half and see what happened. Rafinha will sure come in the 2nd half to destroy genoa’s tired legs.
He can play pinamonti as CF and eder as LW/RW/trequrista,
Yes, that was what I expected tho. Someone was posting that formation here on yesterday article. But yeah, Spal is the coach, he surely knows the team better than us.
Nobody was there cancelo did great
A FROG will always be FROG no matter whtat.. ffs kick him out of the club asap
Still no Rafinha
After Genoa score again
Now Spalletti can make the change. Or maybe he’ll wait a little bit longer.
Its up
is it ture skriniar will leave at the end of this season ? 🙁
I hope not.
Depends on if we finish in cl spots..if not either him or Icardi will be sold
nah nothing serious yet. it depends a lot on ucl also i guess. big factor
All will leave because this inter has no future at all #suningout
yup.. Rano got soooo good in the rest of the season that we dont need skriniar anymore
Now the way Spalletti is gonna react to this first half will define if we already lost the game. Make the change now or let the team wait for another goal from Genoa.
Palacio still has a strong desire to run for a ball. He still has his speed. Just lost his goal scoring magic a bit.
Knowing how cautious Spalletti tends to be I think he will start the second half by replacing Ranocchia with Lopez wait another 15min before bringing on Rafinha although we are already a goal behind…
With Genoa packing the midfield we really need players who can pick out passes. Rafinha is needed, and I hate to say it, but so is Brozovic
we may hate Brozo, but the truth is he is better than Gaglia, Vecino and Valero.
Agree with gaglia and valero, but vecino is better as cdm
Yeah. His attitude stinks but at least it is better than playing with 3 of the same type of player
rano the captain, good job mazzari
I see most people blame valero but i think it isnt 100% his fault. He only got 3 options to pass to who are marked by at least 5. Vecino + gagliardini makes us slow
I do agree with that.. Playing with Vecino and Gaglia doesn’t help at all. but Valero playing awful is Spalletti’s wrong doing. Valero is not cut to be the AM he serves much better in the central midfield position
looking at the replays…handanovic should really have saved that…he had loads of time and just saw it going into the net… seemed to wave the ball on its fine way…. he nearly let that screamer in earlier and think should’ve done more here…
things seem easier than they actually are.
Handa cant save that, he didnt expect that ball would be like that
Oh yeah, in slow motion.
Not really…see it in real time again if you want…it was unexpected but he was there…making reaction saves is part of his job and while this was completely unexpected given how close to him it was expected better from him…
2nd half Lisandro should replace rano, and rafinha replace gaglia. If spalleti dont do this, ill go to sleep
We just can’t afford to make defensive substitutions. We have to risk everything, because we need at least two goals. And on this small and narrow pitch and with all clueless players we have, it won’t be easy at all.
But if rano get a second yellow , its game over
With or without Rano we need more power in attack, otherwise we can’t score even one goal
Have a nice dream, brother. Inter reality is a pain 😀
and it seems tomorrow we will be out of the Champions League spot
monday. thats the thing. they cant think 2 days ahead^^
Very well deserved! And with that ugly, slow, clueless play, I’m afraid what will going to happen, if by some miracle we somehow manage to clarify for Champions League.
Dalbert and Rafinha ASAP. Dumbo is so useless as LB, even inter counter attacks from his side end up on handanovic area. Borja needs to go and finish his career in spanish 2nd division, someone please buy him a walking stick.
Better Brozo with his bad attitude than valero. Is he on the bench? I would like to see him with rafinha in the 2nd half.
Why is Rano playing??? He will get red before end of game
I cant stand valero.
an interesting stat. this season we have hit the goal bars 15 times. we are surely cursed
why oh why is valero in that AM slot when all he can do is slow tempo down and pass sideways… move candreva in the middle or take valero off for rafinha or vecino off for rafinha with valero moving back into vecinos spot…. if he can slow play down and dictate tempo why the fuck is spalletti putting him near the top? makes no sense to me.
imagine he has played all the matches
imagine that
Even though he found 1v1 perin , i pretty sure he will miss
nah he would turn around and pass backwards/sideways…. ANYTHING but going forward ffs.
Vecino should be sacrificed.. Valero is effective in the midfield behind AM..sometimes..
honestly i ve been saying this for a while…. vecino needs to sit for a bit, just seems like he’s lost out there lately and yes valero could be much more useful beside gaglia with rafinha in front of both of em but what the hell do we know, right? lets just keep watching this mindless football being played by our beloved team!
totally agree with you, mate.. the more I watch these games the more I see that Vecino really doesnt run that much! he only sits there in that right central midfield..not opening or initiating play..rarely covers other positions..
as for Valero, Spalleti playing him as an AM is just asking to much from him..
couldn’t have said it better myself bro
Gagliardini is even more shit than Vecino. Gagliardini is slow as hell, misses easy passes and can’t score to save his life.
I dont disagree with you. but Gaglia does try very hard to make his presence noticeable. as Vecino is invisible man..
i thought gaglia was great today considering the fuck fest caused by spalletti… i just think spalletti is clueless at this point and doesnt know how to field the team…. you put rafinha brozo and gaglia in a mid three and watch how much better we play… with competent players together. Vecino is average, gaglia is stronger and way better at passing he just never gets the ball because we play with only two deep mids and hes always isolated and never gets enough touches on the ball. All of this is my opinion and of course i respect yours as well.
It makes sense when you know how mediocre spaletti is
I don’t care how they score the goal but Genoa were the team looking for the goal in the end.
Spalleti seems doesn’t want to win..#suningout
Spaletti doesnt want win, he wants draw, it is obvious, thats why he put 2 DM in midfield
now it;s hard to get 1 point
Our left side has been bad. I miss Perisic, at least defensively he does a good job.
Perisic with his broken shoulder might be better than Candreva
Hi Spall..that valero guy is really really useless.. please always play him because he’s really great..this club is cursed..#suningout
very unlucky with that goal…. pfffhh….
I honestly think Rano subconsciously hates us. This move with his knee was too quick to be on purpose but damn it’s always him.
Bring Lopez Rafinha and Dalbert on Sub candreva Rano and Borja Shit Cancelo to right wing and Dalbert to the left and Dumbo to his right position and Rafinha as a AM we are good to go
Rano shouldn’t be blame for the own goal.. but for everything else… well that’s a different matter.. poor play
Yeah ..he conceded so many unnecessary corners…I can’t help but compare him to Miranda who would have just held onto the ball and drawn the foul or get a goal kick.
Spalleti to be blame..valero is useless but he always play him
Valero is okay in the CM position.. it’s the AM position that Spalleti ask more of what Valero doesn’t have.. creativity and the physics for that
The best is still to come our goal scorer will get his red Card in the Second half..
Genoa was the clear Favourite and desearve this lead and win
#spalettiout
we see the reason why Italy isn’t in the WC
Valero brings nothing to the team. he has no defensive quality, he has not got even a single assist in all these matches and he is to slow to chase lose balls. bring on Rafinha in his place. maybe that will make a difference.
Okay…we won without candreva so put him in the next game..logic lmao ik perisic is injured but anyoneeee would be better than Candreva.As much as I’d like to say unlucky goal that’s the classic Rano goal..he’s just so blighted.
it wad not Rano’s fault. its damn bad luck for us
Nothing wrong with candreva , he created 2 clear chances, our weakness are from borja, gaglia and ambrosio
Yeah that’s what I can’t take with some people…Candreva does 1 good thing for every 10 bad things he does..he will get an assist,then turn the ball over 5 times or take some shots that has 0 chance of scoring but it’s like ..”he got the assist so he had a good game” No..not buying it.I just hope he gets his first goal because I think that’s where the problem is he’s trying so hard.
Good old Ranocchia is back..
what a goal rano, assist by skriniar. f***
Goal Ranochia!!!!!!!!
ops wait wait!!
I WONDER WHAT RANO WAS TELLING THE REF JUST NOW????
Good question, me too. Probably about his yellow card?
The quicker he comes off the better…this is not his game…and he’s a confidence player..won’t be surprised if he gets a red tbh but that first yellow was bull
He just cannot handle the pressure with the armband.
With the armband..without it…he’s still the same average player he has always been..can have some solid games but that’s when everyone else is playing well..not when we actually have to depend on him to play well
He stepped up this season as substitute earlier, but your right we can’t depend on him. He’s to weak
Its an own goal from Rano
I hope Rafinha gets introduce early in the second half. Borja in that AM role is useless..
True, his positioning as cam is terrible
He is not built for that position especially now at his age..
Are you noticing him hetting everywhere late? Its like he’s everywhere but nowhere at the same time
worst way to end the first half
I dont blame the players for this, it is pure spalettu mistake
:))
Fuck him
skriniar was telling handa…wtf is wrong with rano
It’s his faults more
Skriniar fault
Bravo guys so well played. They must have worked really hard this week in training