Beppe Bergomi feels that “the same old problems as the last 4-5 years” were evident in Inter Milan’s 1-2 Serie A loss to Udinese.
The legendary former Nerazzurri captain gave his thoughts on Sky Sport Italia after the match, via FCInter1908.
Inter Milan’s early season momentum came to a grinding halt at the San Siro this evening.
The Nerazzurri may have thought that they were on their way to another victory after Denzel Dumfries put them ahead against Udinese in the first half.
However, the Friulani coped much better with going behind than Torino had last weekend.
Kosta Runjaic’s team managed to score twice. They used their pace and physicality to win the ball back, get forward quickly, and create chances.
Udinese managed to score twice to go in 2-1 up at halftime.
Then in the second half, Udinese defended virtually flawlessly. Inter had plenty of possession, but created few telling opportunities.
Therefore, the match ended in Inter’s first defeat of the campaign, just one match into it.
Bergomi: “Same Problems As Last 4-5 Years” For Inter Vs Udinese
Former Inter captain Beppe Bergomi commented after the match that “the problems that we’ve known about for the last 4-5 years have re-emerged.”
“They need players who can beat their opponent one-on-one,” he contended.
“Inter don’t have any like that. The only one that they had, Zalewski, was sold this summer.”
Bergomi added that “Udinese defended well, they were compact.”
“And just putting balls into the box against such a physical Udinese side is tough.”
Bergomi continued that “Under Inzaghi Inter reached incredible peaks in play with the combinations between the players.”
“But Udinese are a tough opponent for Inter due to their structure.”
“Inter signed five players under 23, but no starters,” Bergomi argued.
“Then all the other players are a year older. They were the last team to start preseason. It will be a difficult season for them.”
A very accurate reading of the game. clear as day to everyone apart from our management it seems.
and to some delusional fans on this forum, I have to say who keep repeating mantra “this is just the second day of the championship”, not realizing that a total collapse on the second day of championship is everything but a positive signal for the rest of the season.
Same management means the same results…..failure. Marotta needs to go now. His time has passed. Hiring a coach with 17 games experience and then depending on Bonny and Pio to carry the team forward is nothing short of madness. I feel sorry for the fans management has completely gone sour.
inter needs to get Lookman,and a quality CB to takeover the starting spot.Asap.
they will never do that because they are cheap. But in the end, all this cheap garbage that we have brought in will cost us more than if we purchased 2-3 top players/starters.
I guess the problem that has remained is the lack of crisis management.
when we are down, the players start to get annoyed easily and the morale approaches zero level. Inzagi was the first one to lose control and chivu although being calm himself simply cannot motivate the team or make them calm. This is evident by what happened during the club worldcup and tonight’s match.
Moreover, Inzagi used to cripple the team with bizarre substitutions during the crisis time. Now it is too soon to say but Chivu seems to cripple the team with bizarre formation! was that some linear 4-2-4 with big number 9s playing wingers?
what we lack is the iron will and winning mentality that was lost somewhere last season maybe due to some dressing room mismanagement and losing control under pressure.
It seems that the excessive expectation of winning brings about some kind of madness storm when we are about to lose in a match. That madness in the group even effects the coach (which shouldn’t) and they start doing crazy things.
2 central strikers deployed as wingers? I doubt that the boys ever played a single training session with that setup! That sure is an act of desperation and serie C class of coaching which is unbecoming of Nerazurri head coach.
Chivu should learn about this madness and when sees its sparks, quickly try to convert it to sanity for himself and enthusiasm to the boys before it starts to consume the whole group.
also, Bonny and Luis Henrique can easily beat players 1v1 and even Thuram has shown he can do it as well…..
so saying we don’t have the players is just sounding like a sore loser.
Don’t be a sore loser.
None of them can “beat” a man, they can all knock it past and hope to win a race but none have a bit of skill and creativity to dribble and make a defender look silly.
They’re all not that fast either so the knock and run tactic only works in serie a against ageing slow defenders
we weren’t that bad. just unlucky.
I would however like to see more shooting from outside the box as endless crossing doesn’t create enough opportunities against tall defenders. shooting from outside the box allows for corners to come as well as deflections that could take it away from a goalie in to the net. it causes the defenders to push up to press the shooter which allows 1-2s to happen to create pressure in the defence lines.
last season we also went in so many unlucky matches and those brought us nothing. even MU got more unlucky games that made them at their position las season. i guessed from the technical aspect, we are already there. imo, something that still needs touching is focus, & also patience. last season for so many games we were losing patience when we were behind, there were panick attacks that sometimes depend on our opponents to be losing focus so then we could aim the win. but, if we faced a highly focus opponents from start to finish, we were mostly doomed.
we weren’t unlucky, we played badly and were outplayed by Udinese!
we lost one game and everyone on this site is like we’re doomed and similar to man united lmao. pathetic. I hope we lose 5 in a row so you’ll say to me “I told you so, we knew it”.
God bless you sir!
They sold tajoon and zelewski to a club that refused to sell their own player to you, without replacements.i pity the fans – what are you an elite club for.
A wise man who died in the backyard of a foolish man – the strategy of inter and marota.