Inter Milan coach Cristian Chivu has decided to start Hakan Calhanoglu against Udinese. This evening’s Serie A matchday two clash kicks off at 20.45 CET.
Inter Milan take on Udinese this evening in Serie A.
The Nerazzurri got their season off to a roaring start last weekend, thrashing Torino 5-0.
Meanwhile, Udinese got a 1-1 draw against Hellas Verona on opening weekend.
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Now, Cristian Chivu will take charge of his second Serie A match as Inter coach.
The pressure is on the Nerazzurri to follow up their emphatic win over Torino with three more points this evening, after Roma and Napoli made it two wins from two yesterday.
Chivu Sticks With The 3-5-2 Once Again
Notably, Inter coach Chivu is once again employing the 3-5-2 formation for this evening’s match.
Firstly, Yann Sommer starts in goal, keeping his place from the win over Torino.
Then, it is a back three of Alessandro Bastoni, Francesco Acerbi, and Yann Bisseck.
Meanwhile, wingbacks Federico Dimarco and Denzel Dumfries also keep their places.
Hakan Calhanoglu Starts – Petar Sucic Keeps His Place
Next, in midfield Chivu has made one change.
Hakan Calhanoglu had missed Monday’s win as he was serving a one-match suspension. However, the Turkish international is available this evening.
Chivu has decided to put Calhanoglu straight into the lineup for his first start of the season.
Meanwhile, summer signing Petar Sucic keeps his place in the eleven. Furthermore, Nicolo Barella also starts once again.
Therefore, Henrikh Mkhitaryan drops to the bench.
Lastly, in attack Chivu has once again gone with the starting strike partnership of Lautaro Martinez and Marcus Thuram.
Among the substitutes on the Inter bench there is one particularly notable name. 20-year-old striker Francesco Pio Esposito was suspended for the opening match against Torino like Calhanoglu.
However, Pio Esposito is available this evening. Therefore, the Inter academy graduate could make his Serie A debut.
Meanwhile, summer signings like Luis Henrique, Ange-Yoan Bonny, and Andy Diouf are all also available on the bench.
Official – Inter Milan Vs Udinese Starting Lineups: Hakan Calhanoglu Starts
Inter Milan (3-5-2): Yann Sommer; Yann Bisseck, Francesco Acerbi, Alessadnro Bastoni; Denzel Dumfries, Nicolo Barella, Hakan Calhanoglu, Petar Sucic, Federico Dimarco; Marcus Thuram, Lautaro Martinez.
Substitutes: Josep Martinez, Raffaele Di Gennaro, Stefan de Vrij, Benjamin Pavard, Tomas Palacios, Matteo Darmian, Carlos Augusto, Luis Henrique, Piotr Zielinski, Andy Diouf, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Davide Frattesi, Ange-Yoan Bonny, Francesco Pio Esposito.
Coach: Cristian Chivu.
Suspended: no one.
Injured and unavailable: no one.
Udinese (3-5-2): Sava; Bertola, Kristensen, Solet; Ehizibue, Piotrowski, Karlstrom, Atta, Zemura; Bayo, Davis.
Substitutes: Nunziante, Goglichidze, Kabasele, Kamara, Zarraga, Lovric, Pjianic, Miller, Camara, Ekkelenkamp, Rui Modesto, Vinciati, Buksa, Bravo.
Coach: Runjaic.
Suspended: Okoye (Until October 18th).
Injured and unavailable: Padelli, Palma.
Referee: Marchetti.
Assistant referees: Baccini and Colarossi.
Fourth official: Zufferli.
VAR: Marini.
Assistant VAR: Aureliano.
Impressed with Chivu courage, I like that !
Somehow we lack still creativity in midfield, we barely created any chances, and while having 4 strikers, several corners amd crosses, not real danger. I hope we learned some lessons today until next games
He knew Inter needed a goal and a gamble inside the box since Udinese were all inside their own box so a penalty or handball was inevitable. But it wasn;t Inter’s night just like it would be for other teams. But Chivu never stopped pushing Inter to get the goal since Inter are superior. In other scenario the opponent defence would 100% make a mistake
I can’t remember ever seeing so many disregarding a loss, while seeing potential, and a coach trying to do what many here ask for.
A good wake up call. Now we need to see how the team respond to this.
Milito22 was too optimistic. We won’t win Scudetto even we were with Inzaghi. Napoli is much stronger. We are in ground after 5:0 we thought we are stronger but not. As pessimistic fan I expected win against Udinese before loss against Juventus.
Well, we can’t win all 38 games, but i’m more pissed we play the same way like last season, no change at all, no new tactics or formation. Same story with ball going to Dimarco and Dumfries, they send it to the box, or hoping to score from set-pieces (except that panic play with 4 strikers at the end). No creativity at all, Hakan terrible, 0 right balls, Zielinski on life support and they are our option for 3rd starter in the midfield.
No team will win all the matches. Tonight the second goal wouldn’t come even if extra time was 20 minutes. Again no team will win all matches and Udinese defended with everyone knowing luck was on their side.
Yes, they also deserve credit for the second goal. Well done, sadly… we lost to a defense that did what they had to.
Exactly. The penalty was harsh but it was early and Inter did create and score but it was never their night. Serie a is not easy and Inter lost while still dominating and trying to score at all cost. It wasn’t a tactical failure as many seem to suggest here.
Napoli and Juventus already won two matches and most likely will win 95% of their matches.
why don’t u go support them then? maybe ur cheering for them will help them win 100%?
it’s ok. good lesson to learn. thank goodness it’s early in the season. nice to see chivu was not scared to turn up the screws. Inzaghi would have brought on darmian and devrij.. lol! ok guys. all the best. it’s gonna get better.
Lmao yup… we’d be packing the field with defenders even if we needed a goal. It’s a good sign from Chivu
we lost the title last year with all the points we lost early in the season.
these delusional fans will come up with any excuse just to avoid reality. Inter is simply a trash and will be fighting the relegation zone.
oh Davide.. forgot to take your meds again? it’s the second match of the season.. chill mate. relegation battle, what are u smoking… lay off the hard stuff mate.
actually not.. we lost last year with the points we dropped at the end.. just saying… everyone and their dog knows that serie a is gonna be tough this year. we have not got a single player who can run at defenders with speed and close ball control. lookman would have ticked all the boxes. we should have let chala go, his heart and head is obviously not here anymore. still… it’s too early to write inter off! all teams are bound to screw up. bilan after buying so many players lost to cremonese.. it will happen!
at least we now have a coach who’s not afraid to send all 4 forwards in bid to claw back a draw.
Inzaghi would have sub 1-for-1
I consider this a win. and hopefully we can sign a defender or 2 in the Jan transfer window.
Not the end of the world. Some things need to be adjusted but this is not as bad as it appears.
That penalty turned these dudes back default settings. No Urgency
What kind of substitutions are these, 4 strikers in play
That was a perfect change of tactic.
We saw how it ended
Dire performance
Too much passing, These dudes think they’re Prime Barcelona
Blindly sending ball forward in hope that it will get to someone, pathetic buildplay
credit where due… udinese defence was 100% that was not a f* penalty!!
They’re all rolling on the grass lol
just like last season after their win 5-0 they celebrated as if they were going to win everything LOL I am glad they lost so everyone become realistic and be grateful if inter stays away from the relegation zone. Meanwhile Napoli easily won.
what do you mean easily? a goal at the 95+ minute is what you call easily? pathetic
In an alternate reality somewhere, Lookman would have ran the show today
marotta got paid large sums from Nasser. He doesn’t care and his contracts will end in 2 years. He has nothing to lose. Hakan is the same situation, he decided to stay to take avenge of inter and his mates. What worse could happen? Get benched? Inter cannot afford it. He also can pretend to get injured. So, he is all set, easy money and taking avenge.
But our management decided he was way too expensive in comparison with the no name, mediocre or below average players that we have brought in during this transfer window
We’re playing one of the tallest teams in Europe and all we’re doing is crossing the ball, clearly it’s not working
Bad result but we move on. We need a fast midfielder who has good close ball control, our build up play was really poor today nevermind who we had upfront. Reminded me of the 90s when we had Vieri, Ronaldo, Recoba upfront but not enough quality in midfield. I’m not saying our strikers are that good. We really needed a quality midfielder like Kone. Really disappointed we couldn’t get him.
You can’t fault the effort in the second half, but situations like this make me wonder why we loaned out Carboni….
Oh well
They say it’s the hope that kills you,
Last year hurt
At least this year I have no hope
Lol don’t give up bro. Stay optimistic
Inter will not win anything not due to this match. They are simply trash this time. They will be fighting the relegation zone. This will not be the only match inter has lost, this is the beginning of endless wins,
endless loss* I meant
Fighting relegation? You sound foolish, stop being dramatic.
ignore this idiot. surely it’s a rubentino judging by his intelligence
0 technique and playmaking skills from the middle. Our only play is over Dimarco and Dumfries
meanwhile C.unte, Allegri, and Tudor are smoking their cigars and drinking until late celebrating the loss of inter!
Cross the damn ball we have 3 strikers,
This is where we need Luis Henrique
The team practically doesn’t have any plays worked, it’s just crossing into the box.
Another bit of great defending from bisseck
Can we just swap him mid game for solet?!
♂️
Solet looks great tho, he always plays well against us. Hopefully we can bring him in
Wtf was that
Finally hacunt is off. 3 strikers is exciting!!!
The Torino match was a fluke
This is the same team that towards the end of last year blew the league and annoyed us most weekends playing very average football,
We haven’t bought anyone to improve the team and settled for a manager with little experience and pretty much zero at this level.
What did we really expect?!
This is how good we are, everybody else has improved / strengthened, top 4 is the target
Sell the Turk now. He is so lousy.
turk is way out of form. Zieliński needs to come in for him.
Hakan haven’t done a single good thing this evening.
Indeed. He sucks big time.
Sucic out yup nice one
Sucic needs to be careful and not give the ball away. He rushes and it’s understandable but keep the ball first and foremost.
Especially against a team like Udinese who primarily have big players
Ivan Perišić is watching the match. Wish he was playing!
wow disallowed!
Fuck off VAR!!!!
Fuck var what a disgrace
Thuram two assists
Offside lol wow
Dimarco!!!
2-2
thank you!!! SHOOT THE DAMN BALL!!
Good response. Don’t let your foot off the gas now.
My Man!!!! DiMarco!!!! goooaaalll!!!!! FORZA INTER!!!!
C’mon Hakan. You could’ve done better there!
Do Marco!!!!!!
people are blaming hakan who is not doing well but sucic sucks. he always loses the ball in dangerous areas
Speaking objectively, and not like some 5 year old keyboard warrior spouting vile shit, Hakan has been awful… completely taken the rhythm out of the midfield! The players need to stop sulking- the penalty decision was ridiculous, but this is Serie A, and it happens all the time- the players heads have gone ever since!! Thuram needs to stop trying to be too clever, and shoot when clean through on goal!! Let’s see what the second half brings…. C’MON BOYS!!!!
they slice us through the middle in transition, same problem since last season, more and more teams know how to hurt us, and all our 3 defenders are just tracking back, you just need to shoot really, when we get our turn, we push the ball wide and got stopped immediately, playing long ball once in a while, innovation is massively needed here from our new coach, fck what the board say, dont let them dictate how the team should play, just go with your idea Chivu
Thats what happens when management decide to spend all summer jerking off instead of reinforcing the team. What a damn joke of a club. Whoever decided to keep Biseck, Accerbi and that useless dumb fuckface Calhanoglu should go and kill himself.
Chasing one player all summer just to give up because of a miserable 5mil difference is a total bullshit.
And as for the tactics, we look even worse than last season. Why do we keep playing 3 man defence when we do not have enough quality defenders to execute that tactic?
Atalanta did not want to sell to us. They never gave a counter offer. The 50M was a rumor and the president confirmed it. Atalanta always said they’d prefer selling to a foreign club than one is the same league
To be frank, Lookman value acc Transfermarkt is 60 mil. Not sure if we were even close to sign him unfortunately
They sould hire you, because you have all the solutions. You can be president and coach. This way all problems will be solved.
You think if you have 1 less central defender the team will be better??? Is Acerbi the problem???
You think that you change the team like in fifa. 3 at the backn than next match with 4. And all works perfect. Some of you keep comaining. Allegri was free. Would Allegri be better???????
Allegri? Are you serious bro? And yes, this team has so many problems, I don’t even know where to begin with.
Bisseck looks really nervous, he’s need to improve quickly or that is the first sub, Hakan needs to speed up the play, Martinez needs to drop deep to be more involved and leave Thuram up. Generally we need to close down quicker.
We had a chance to sell this tree stump for good money to English clubs. Yet our fcking stupid management decided to keep him. After tonight his worth will decline
Maybe if he will perform good in a game you will also say it was just a joke?
Nope, not really. You can’t fck up 10 games and perform well in one and be ggod. Whay’s your point ? Is Bisseck worth holdimg on ?
I’m not gonna mince my words… I am sick to death of the amount of braindead, negative twats on this site!! What sort of fans are you? Is the game over? Chivu out all of a sudden? The Inter ‘fans’ on here make me fucking sick!! Get behind your team, you pathetic shits!!
well spoken!
Thanks… I blame Nima for getting rid of discuss, meaning that you can’t just block these fuckwits…
Thing is, that this negative ass couch fans are commenting only when Inter is in difficulty. Fuck off you toxic plastic self called fans!
Exactly right!! We have a young coach, who is trying to make his mark in difficult circumstances… did everyone think we were gonna just win 38 games 5-0??
It’s a bunch of clowns commenting these type of crap on here.
They’re spawning like rabbits!! Dickheads!!
Imagine judging a manager after 1.5 games… you guys are pathetic. Give Chivu some time instead of bringing out the pitchforks
Lol some of you on here are funny. This is this man’s second game in charge and it’s half time at that and you talk about firing and not wanting him to be hired. What am I reading Lool
Exactly!
Fickleness here is strong. Blaming the coach is criminal as players are making individual mistakes.
this is his second game, but the game against average Udinese! The team is completely dysfunctional, especially in the defense and in the midfield. He must have demanded reinforcements but instead, chosen to be obedient, as he’s himself, mediocre.
Bob relax, the season has just began. We haven’t even properly seen Chivu’s team in action. It’s his second game ffs
he’s definitely not up to the level of a club aspiring to be at the top and strive to win trophies,..on the other hand, the managements has shown the lack of ambition and instead of reinforcing the team, we look weaker than the last season..
What if we turn this game around. What are you going to say then?
so, what we have now is the cub without ambition, coach without experience/skills and players on some of the key positions with limited qualities..
Wow…you are so funny.
Bisseck is not a good defender. Maybe he needs to be experimented as a cdm.
Welcome back Bisseck. Lol
And now people want Mhiki in the team. Didn’t you (some of you) guys keep saying he should be out? Why is he still in the team? He should never play and so on. Make up your mind!
Well for my part, I just joked for Mkhi. Fact is, Calha is awful, together with Bisseck the disaster.
More crap from bisseck,
We need to revolt and force him out! Like we have with asllani
we will collapse this season as a result of appointing Chivu as head coach and a failure to bring in, basically, any reinforcements.
He’s nothing more than an intern. I didn’t support his hiring.
but weren’t you and delusional fans last week were literally saying inter will win everything after the first match and I was the only one who said it is too early to judge?!
You were not alone Davide… Many fans here are short-sighted and delusional
You are an idiot an a clown. You said Marotta is Moratti. And yes, you are true, you were the only one that could say something that stupid.
They wasted the opportunity to bring in a quality defender. The defensive system is a major concern. Bisseck has already shown his weakness. Arcebi and De Vrij are in decline. The only decent defender is Bastoni, who can’t play alone.
Let’s rotate our midfield back to what it was in our 1st game. Let Mkhi play instead of Hakan.
Exactly. Hakan forgot how to play as he hasn’t performed for more than half a year now.
Defense In transition will be our down fall this season.
Or translation,
Playing bisseck will be
Yea Pavard helps that alot
A defensive team at home? We didn’t even see that during Inzagui’s time. Terrible football so far.
And now we are in ground. Disaster season us is waiting.
bye bye inter
inter 1 Udinese 2
Bisseck just running back never closed,
He’s a liability and you lot think he’s good
We look abysmal with him in the team ABYSMAL!!!
Idk how anyone could think Bisseck is good. I just don’t understand where this kid gets support from. I don’t know. I just can’t fathom how someone could watch this man play and think to themselves he’s good. How???
I cant calha out we play way better football without that fucking cunt
He is a complete ghost. The guy should have been sold although everybody wanted him for free.
Calha so bad, I start missing Mkhi… Even Sucic and Barella suffering from him :/
Bisseck – Continues to ne bad from last season. Lautaro amd Thuram great, Dumfries unfortunate bit good game, rest of the team average as fck. And npw they scored another :/
Right!
He is not bad he just decides to take avenge from inter and the players for last summer’s saga What worse could happen? He will get paid irrespective of his performance. They should have gotten rid of him but we all know marotta doesn’t give a damn.
Wow what a goal we are seriously getting challenged today
Bisseck is USELESS!!!!!
Yep!!!!!!
Just shoot ffs!!!!
Hakan is having a mare
Upsetting the entire midfield
Can’t get sucic on the ball
Hakan out – Sucic Takes his Place and frattesi in
inter 2 Udinese 1
We can see the match as well. I don’t think you need to tell us what we can see with our own eyes.
Maybe it will be better if you can learn who Moratti is and not making stupid mistakes like you did before, clown!
I type fast you loser I know who is Massimo Moratti. I was referring to the loser Giuseppe Marotta. I am sure your clueless brain’s cells last week were claiming that inter will win everything. I will keep my statement, Inter will be fighting the relegation zone as I have declared this statement in June.
Fuck off you clown! You are an idiot!
I wonder what the xA would be in that situation, I mean, if one could call that an assist for the penalty. That situation was DD doing exactly the right thing as a defender. And a ball going out…
Too much complaining to the ref right now
It’s a joke why we didn’t sign Bertola for free
???????????????????????
Why is that???
Young Italian, free, solid game so far, soon we won’t be able to buy him without 30mil
Yeah…very solid.
30 millions? Nooo, Liverpool, Arsenal or Newcastle will pay 50 for him
From hero to vilain.
I guess next time something happen against Napoli they will not consider it a penalty!
Dumfries…both, angel and devil…
Something similar happened with Liverpool v Arsenal and there was no penalty because the referees understood you couldn’t jump with your hands in a natural out stretched position BUT here in Serie A everything is a penalty. What a ridiculous league
Incredible decision. Common sense should be allowed in addition to the rules.
I don’t think the footballing bodies should leave these decisions up to the discretion of some of these incompetent referees.
1-1
That ball is headed towards the arm… ridiculous
maybe the players should start cutting their arms off LOL
possible penalty for Udinese
Clueless
Calha keeps getting dribbled past
Denzel!!!!
If this thuram stays fit and does not drop in form he will be crazy
1-0 inter
Too bad Chivu is stubborn and doesn’t want to let Correa play LOL I am glad that loser has gone
Lets go, ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK!!!
Less than 10 mins and bisseck has already done what I say he does, goes up walkabout, loses the ball and leaves 2 defending covering him, makes no effort to get back, acerbi was all alone and they should have hit the target!!
HES F**KING SH*T!!!!!!!!!
Decent looking line-up. Bisseck might be in for Pavard for a bit more pace in the side. Happy Susic and Barrella remain in with Hakan replacing Mika. 14 strong bench. Full squad with Taremi departed. Forza Inter!
Barella and Sucic!!
Liverpool 1 – Arsenal 0 so far they are close to each others meanwhile the lucky c.unte won again
Forza Inter!
What with Alexis Sanchez ???
I hope this midfield trio fits together. Any news on Pavard I haven’t seen? An Inzaghi-style “generous” rotation?
Thank you Chivu for not being hard headed. Miki off the bench will be more useful. I predict a 2nd half goal by miki Today.
In the space of 24 hours we have seen Taremi sold, and Miki dropped to the bench!! Happy Days!! Grazie Chivu!! I am so looking forward to thus game now, its unbelievable!!!
The referee is killing this game. Everything seems to be a foul!!!!
Thank you Chivu for trusting Sucic