Nerazzurri coach Cristian Chivu admits that Inter Milan lacked composure in the second half of yesterday’s loss to Udinese.
The Romanian spoke to InterTV, via FCInterNews, after the match. He commented that “we lost our heads.”
Yesterday evening Inter Milan experienced an early and major setback in their Serie A season.
Whereas everything had gone right for the Nerazzurri in their win against Torino on opening day, there were few positives from the team’s performance yesterday.
From errors and sloppy play at the back to a lack of physicality in midfield, Inter looked hapless in the first half after they’d gone ahead in the first half.
Then in the second half, the Nerazzurri chased the game. There was no lack of intensity, but little in the way of precision from Inter’s attack.
Chivu: “Inter Lost Our Heads” In 1-2 Loss Vs Udinese
Inter coach Cristian Chivu commented after the match that “it started well.”
“We broke the deadlock,” he continued. “But then we lost our composure and focus.”
“The penalty got Udinese back on terms. Then we tried to react, but without consistency and focus.”
“We also lost some duels and second balls,” said Chivu. “They did well to find our week points.”
The Inter coach then said that “In the second half we showed better quality, focus, and made the right runs.”
“But then we weren’t able to equalize. And as time went on, we lost our heads.”
“We were a bit too frenetic in our buildup play,” said Chivu. “We could have done better.”
Now, the Nerazzurri coach feels that “we need to react quickly.”
“We’re still a work in progress,” Chivu admitted.
“We need to find the right motivation to bounce back from this.”
In my opinion the game is getting soft. You see guys just getting slighly touched yet they flop on the floor to get a call. It slows down the game so much that it cant get into any kind of rhythm because its whistle after whistle after whistle. These are grown men throwing themselves on the ground with the slightest breeze hitting them. Im not talking about the real fouls i understand those for both teams. im talking about 2 guys running full speed at a loose ball and one guy just stops right infront of the other just to get a call of a “push” or something. Thats why Inter got so frustrated yesterday, Udi kept slowing down the game with all the flopping and the ref kept giving the calls. I try to teach my son to play strong and fight for the ball to use his strength but when we watch a game he sees the professional players flopping and throwing themselves on the ground as if they just broke their leg just to draw a foul rolling around on the ground and get up and run off like nothing. I guess i just see the game different.
I totally agree with all you said.