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.”
Can’t you guys find someone who can translate from Italian or at least proofread after Google Translate? Half of it doesn’t make sense.
I could , I do Italian /English English /Italian on a daily basis.
On the other hand .. I am also a lazy as..hole, so I don’t know…
So easy to be the ” Monday quarterbacks “.
But all these geniuses bring up all these original , super- winning ideas always and only AFTER we didn’t get the desired result.
I have nothing to criticize Spalletti and his starting XI for,because I don’t have any serious alternative to these players and because I don’t have the arrogance and stupidity to believe that I, in his position, would do any better.
Actually I was really happy he finally left gaglia in the bench…and then he came in… and Spal tied.
Too bad.
The only thing I have been suggesting for weeks is that Nagatomo comes back as a starter.
We were on top of the league with him, ahead of Napoli and rube.
Believe it or not.
That’s the only different choice I would have made in the starting XI.
But even that one I believe is due to the fact that Nagatomo is seriously on the market right now.
Leaving us .
And i am not even sure it is a good thing anymore , after watching Dalbert and Santon.
Actually, I’ve been saying that we need to change it up a little for about 6 weeks pal, and I don’t see the point of bringing on subs with 5 minutes to go! Pinamonti will be yet another promising youngster that we’ll let go for nothing, and Dalbert and Karamoh will both ask for a transfer at the end of the season! We never put any faith in our younger players, and it’s very frustrating!
That’s the sickness in Inter, never wanna trust youngster..Always telling bullshit when buying some promising youngster as an investment for the future..I dunno if they have the cure for this sickness..
Honestly , players like Dalbert and Pinamonti are just not that much at Inter level.
Just like Gabigol , probably.
I believe they will never be something at this level, one can tell.
It is not only about “us not giving them enough trust.”
That reasoning would have worked well only for someone visibly super talented like Pirlo .
That was actually crazy and wrong to let him go , yes, but we DID get offer a lot for Pirlo at the time from Milan ,which was still a very rich club then.
Maybe that reaoning worked for Coutinho, but we had to sell ,that’s the bottom line .
Just like we needed the 30 M for Kovacic that we all knew was a great talent anyway and always played.
That’s it.
End of the list
The other 100 ” young talent that were not given enough trust “?
Where did they get without us?
A couple at a very mediocre level in Serie A , the rest between serie B and Lega pro or even gave up football.
Maybe Karamoh now.. he may be almost ready to give us something productive ,but it’s still a bet.
He should come in gradually ,not as a constant starter anyway.
Pinamoni , Dalbert…
meh.. they are just not that much.
One can tell.
I fully agree with you that it’s not Spalettis fault- it’s the way the club is run, and if we didn’t constantly waste money on average or below players, and integrated some of our youth players, we wouldn’t be in this mess! Plus, don’t forget, that Kovacic was sold ( along with Hernanes) to fund the Kondogbia deal- I think it’s pretty obvious who we should’ve kept there! Even if we forget about Pirlo, as he has now retired, we could currently have Bonucci, Coutinho, Kovacic and Benassi in our first team, and the likes of Biraghi, Pinamonti and Duncan in the squad! Personally, I would’ve rather kept these guys than wasted god knows how much on the likes of Kdog, J.Mario, Brozovic, Eder etc. etc. Just saying!
My last point on this also, is that although many of our discarded youth may not have gone on to be world beaters, they would have probably been useful in filling out the squad, rather than the countless flops who have cost us between £10 and £15 million each! Take Man Utd as an example- the likes of Butt, O’Shea P. Neville, Evans etc didn’t go on to play for Barca or Real, but were all useful members of title winning squads! Playing for the team that you’ve grown up with fills you with pride and determination, and probably gets an extra 30% out of you, but with our youth players, we’ll never know!!
im with you on this.. i would have preferred to have nagatomo on the left!! hes been performing well so far.. i would have taken out valero in the second half for rafinha and dictated the play abit more . other than that.. i would switch candreva with karamoh!! hes a better crosser and has more pace.
Same old story, every year. September, Inter are fighting for the scudetto. December, Inter are fighting for a CL place. March, Inter are fighting for a EL place. May, Inter finish 7th place. I don’t understand why the team crumble down every year in December.
Yeah, that makes me sick 🙁
Previous years i really didn’t understand. But this year it’s clear, we have very few option for strikers and playmakers. Icardi can’t score every single match with or without good playermakers. I believe keep current players except Eder and add Sturridge and Pastore bring some changes. But inter planning to sell Brozovic order to bring Pastore, for me that will be downgrade.
This 4-2-3-1 system doesn’t work with current players. This system requires wingers who can dribble and beat their and can score goals. Like if we had a player like Lucas from PSG instead instead of Crossdreva. And a trequartista who can score goals like Nainggolan did for Roma last season.
SAD but TRUE.
Looks like I made the right choice of not waking up at 3:30 in the morning to watch this clownfest. No reason to waste the time on these shitters.
well its 18.30 Jkt time, I still regret i saw the awfully bad game.
If the team isn’t playing well, then try changing things!! We don’t have the biggest squad, but we do have some options- Rafihna and Karamoh on the wings, Delbert the left footer at left back, and give Pinamonti some game time rather than Eder- if we’re not going to try anything different against teams like SPAL, then when are we?!
Exactly
He dont have guts to do that, just have bald head
Spalletti is 90% to blame. Why would he start Cancelo on the left when he was absolutely amazing in previous matches. Completely underestimated Spal.
Same old days, drawing from a … spal madrid
It’s because D’Ambrosio and Candreva have chemistry on the right and Cancelo is by far the best individual. Since all our left backs suck it makes some sense to field Cancelo on the left and preserve the “chemistry” on the right.
Yes actually the idea dambro on the right and cancelo on the left made sense.
But now ..people have to criticize everything and anything ….just criticize whatever .
But only AFTER and never take responsibility to offer a serious , credible alternative.
Regardless, Cancelo played well.
He played well recently, in his good performance, unfortunately we are at the stage of no-win-streak.
I wish we could sign him at end of season.
Cancelo is only player has fighting spirit today. He played very well.
Spalla to blame?? Not P3erisic who plays like he couldn’t give a rats ass about the club, Brozo who has such a negative wibe over him when playing – and who only seeks out Perisic with his passes.
Candreva who is so easy to read! Even Handanovic seemed to not care a bit yesterday!
I blame these overrated, spoiled rates for the down periode we´re in, not Spalla! But now he´s seeing the same picture Mancini saw and hopefully Ausilio manage to bring in some quality before the end of this transfer window.
Rafinha with Vecino could be great with Pastore in front, but our wingers need competition NOW!
Sell Eder asap before it’s too late. He doesn’t add anything, failed everything.