As Inter’s slump continued at the weekend with a defeat to Genoa, manager Luciano Spalletti has identified three key areas to work upon in a bid to turn Inter’s fortunes around and get them back on the right track.
Milano based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport report that Inter coach Spalletti has identified three areas where Inter need to improve to get back to winning ways. The areas are reportedly the teams mentality, fitness levels and tactical disposition on the pitch.
Spalletti is understood to have told the team something along the following lines in an attempt to inspire them;
“From here to the end of the season, the rankings will fluctuate a lot but the important thing is to not waste all the work of the first five months. Above all, it is essential that you remember that we were also at the top of the table earlier on. It is with these strengths, aside from the January signings, that we will return to the Champions League.”
As for getting the players fitness back, Spalletti is aiming to recover all of the tired players in Borja Valero and Ivan Perisic among others and concentrate on managing Rafinha.
In training this week, there has been a lot of video watching and tactical work. On the training pitches, Spalletti has also took the players back to basics.
Rafinha reminds me of a left footed Sneijder in 09/10 season. He is our last hope this season.
Can’t agree more
the 3 areas: defence, midfield and attack.
I was going to say the exact thing! lol
Haha, Briliant 😀
One of the main issues Spaletti needs to address is the lack of balance in the team- against Genoa we started the match with 11 right footed players! My wife immediately knew how ridiculous this was, and she doesn’t even like football!!
Whenever possible, we should be playing with Dalbert, Rafihna and Perisic ( if someone could remind him that he is left footed! ) from the start! On top of the balance, with Rafihna playing we will have more creativity, and teams might not be able to suss us out before a ball has been kicked!
perisic isnt left footed my friend, but when on form he use it pretty well. unfortunately at the moment he sucks with both.
Perisic is left footed- take a look at his entire career up until the last 2 or 3 months! But for some reason, he has suddenly tried using his right foot, with the problem being that he can’t!!
perisic would like to hear that he used his weaker foot so much that people think hes actually left footed. same was with hernanes btw.
hes right footed my friend, he leads the ball with right and has a stepover of a right footed.
nontheless, i do agree inter needs left footed players. one of the reasons i wanted kondogbia to stay. dalbert, rafinha must play all the time.
He can use both feet but like you said his lead foot is his right. He’s just out of form. A goal will surely fix his situation.
Our left side with two right footed right side players was just ridicolous.
Can’t figure it out why Spalletti doesn’t give Dalbert a start, when he has been better than Santon and Dumb on the left.
You’re as confused as I am- hopefully Spaletti trusts him enough to give him a start against Benevento, thought I’m not holding my breath! Personally, I think that if he had just stuck with him, rather than dropping him for Naga, Santon and now D’Ambrosio, he’d be flying now, and looking like the player he was last season… instead his confidence will be draining away week after week!
So true. The odd thing is he didn’t do anything wrong in his minutes, unlike the others.
he was always too afraid to go forward
Put yourself in his place then, u perform without any major mistakes, more effective than any other LB in your team, and then, regardless of what u’ve done, u get the bench behind Santon, Naga and Dumb who has absolutely nothing to offer on the left.
Then u wouldn’t be afraid to go forward? Your confidence will be drained in a couple of weeks!