“Boring” Inter put 4 past Frosinone to go top of the league after a “boring” Man of The Match performance by “boring” Adem Ljajic who made 2 “boring” assists and was behind another “boring” goal. Bored yet? Not me, not even close.
Whoever claims that they thought before the season started that Inter would be top of the Serie A after 13 matches is either a liar or owns a time machine. No-one expected Inter to be this solid defensively, play with such composure in midfield and grind teams down the way Mancini’s boys have done so far. Sure, the team has only scored 16 goals in 13 matches but have conversely only conceded 7 where 4 of those goals came against Fiorentina, so 3 in 12 matches gives a better idea of how well Mancini has got Inter playing defensively.
This has made experts and pundits in Italy brand Inter as a boring team, a quite laughable accusation given the big problems the Nerazzurri have had defensively the past 4 years. It’s not even a “is the glass half full or half empty” discussion as Inter are playing like a big team for the first time in 4 years, in defense as well as in attack. Well, now Inter are 2 points clear at the top of the Serie A after having crushed Frosinone 4-0 at home, after Adem Ljajic made 2 great assists as well as being behind basically everything Inter did in attack.
Mauro Icardi looked well up for the match and managed to get a goal as well as finally being able to start to link up with Stevan Jovetic, who never came up to the usual high standards we’ve grown accustomed to. Melo and Kondogbia dominated the midfield physically and helped out Murillo and Miranda in defense who both gave another faultless performance with the former scoring his first goal ever for Inter after being assisted delicously by Jovetic.
The hammering finished when Marcelo Brozovic came on late and finished proceedings off with a gorgeous 4th goal. By then Inter really were ‘Intervic’ as the team had 5 players on the pitch simultaneously from the Balkans: Brozovic, Perisic, Ljajic, Jovetic and Handanovic. The Balkan formula seems to be working very well as all of these players have been playing very well and consistently under Mancini, but how far can Intervic go? Hard to say but one thing is for sure, Mancini and his Balkan boys have got the team playing like title contenders although it’s at least 17 matches left until anyone can realistically even begin to start to talk about a Scudetto. The pundits may be bored but Thohir, Mancini & his Balkan boys and yours truly are all just bored by the experts negative opinions about an Inter that is finally again acting like a big club on and off the pitch.
Great article, but we need to make sure we do not overlook one key factor: that 4 goals came against Fiorentina. If we are title contenders, we need to beat top teams as well. We did well having clean sheet after clean sheet until the Fiorentina game, where we got mauled; we cannot have that happen against Napoli next game. We need to grind out a win, which means restricting their pace.
I can see a back 4 of d’Ambrosio murillo miranda and JJ against Napoli. Fast and solid enough to hold off Napoli. As for midfield I have a feeling it will be brozo guaro medel and then in attack perisic ljajic and icardi.
Ljajic is really changing us offensively as a team.What a class!
Mancini and the Balkan boys, sounds good if it were to be made a band lol.
““Boring” Inter put 4 past Frosinone to go top of the league after a “boring” Man of The Match performance by “boring” Adem Ljajic who made 2 “boring” assists and was behind another “boring” goal.”
This is gold! :))
Positive result. The next one against Napoli will show if this performance will be, at least, repeated, even improved against the top fours. Hopefully, Jojo and iCardi will replicate what iCardi and Llajic have done today. Play a simple pass, give a go, whatever, as long as the ball put into the net.
Note: Kondo becoming himself today. Tello did awfully brilliantly amazingly great. And Biabiany? This boy definitely has heart.
not sure if it mello or telles or tello
who is tello?^^
My bad. I’m too excited when wrote it. It’s ALEX TELLES, People!!
I was very impressed with his determination, his runs, his crossing, his tenacity. I really hope he can continue this form and be permanent at the end of the season.
Note: Shame that he and Mello don’t exist in PES 2016
Somehow, I still feel insecure when Telles play. I feel JJ give more defensuve security than him. But he can still improve in physical appearance and defensive ability.
Yea. Telles gives a lot going forward but sometimes leaves room behind him. I think mancini decides between him and JJ based on the game plan/opposition attack.
I think it’s great that he has that option. It’s a shame we don’t have better choices for right back but I have to say murillo has really impressed me with his technique. It’s very rare for a cb to have such amazing passing and feet in general.
I dont care if this team is boring, at least they have playing identity and win, thus I am happy. And if the team play like they were born Interista like this, I am twice happy. If we reach maximum objective at the end of the season, I’ll die happy. For me, this boring team are better than years of “galactico” Inter at 1999-2003 when we play with almost no identity.
They must be bored calling inter boring
we were not acting like a big club, we are already and always one of the big club because we are always in A!!
what he mean are, in the last 4 years inter defense were like a mediocare team, but this year we show a huge improvement mate.. we start to look like a tittle contender..
Yes I know mate, I’m just frustrated on how mediocre we are in the past years. We hope we can flying high this season.
hey… and ludovIC biabiany…
Mancini & His Balkan Boys sounds like a very good band name