President Erick Thohir opened the press conference before the Fiorentina game:
“I had things to do on the other side of the world, but I have not missed a single thing regarding Inter. I am here to support the team, then there are a lot of talked about news but none of them are true. I always talk to Mancini, and the rumors about Moratti are also untrue. Tomorrow we want to do well in an important game. The Champions League is the goal, I am confident about the team and the coach. We will see each other again soon.”
How important is Thohir’s presence?
“Very, we are at a decisive phase in the season and he helps us. It will not be decisive tomorrow but it is very important.”
What is the reason for this drop?
“The team is doing well and even though we drew 3-3 at Verona the team did well and deserved to win. I have a positive feeling about tomorrow, even though it will be difficult because they play well.”
Are the meetings with the referees necessary?
“I was at lunch with the other coaches (said with a laugh). Should they actually give any effect then they are welcome to introduce them.”
Is tomorrow the chance to restart once and for all?
“We do not need to start over, we have done well up until this point. The first half of the season we exceeded expectations. I always said that there were teams who were better than us, and that is the truth but I want to keep on fighting. Our goal to reach the Champions League remains. That does not change.”
What do you expect to see tomorrow?
“Against Verona there was a lot of randomness, but we need to continue like this. We need to commit fewer errors, Fiorentina can make things difficult for us.”
Roma are back in it, how do you see the Champions League race?
“At the moment there are three teams that fight for it, then we have Milan just 5 points behind.”
Have you worked a lot on set pieces?
“Miranda will help us a lot, but we did not concede a single one for five moths. At Verona it was just a coincidence, the Brazilian will help us. We always work on that.”
How many doubts do you have for tomorrow?
“No doubts. Allegri, Sarri, Paulo Sousa, Piolo, Donadoni, Gasperini and Delneri will play (laughs). Handanovic will play of course, but you knew that already. As for the rest of the formation..”
Could Perisic, Eder and Biabiany be decisive tomorrow?
“They can concede goals because they try impose their tactics. They also make a lot of changes, in many different ways.”
You are said to be tired of Inter, can you comment on it?
“I do not read a lot, I can’t deny things that are untrue. In England you have got the best league in the world so there tends to be comparisons.”
Will you be staying at Inter next season?
“I will stay at Inter next season, unless they send me away!”, says Mancini with a laugh.
Ljajic and Jovetic are former Fiorentina players, could they represent an advantage?
“They are excellent players who can make the difference. They need to be ready to play.”
How is Icardi?
“He is ok, he just had a minor problem but nothing special.”
What will change compared to the home game vs Fiorentina?
“That was a very strange game, I hope tomorrow will be different. We need to concede very little, they are doing great in the league. We will try to do well.”
Is the fact that the other teams play in Europe an advantage? What do you think about that there will be no more talking about refs after the games?
“I hope that we are there until the end, we need to do well and take advantage of it. I have tried not to comment on anything, but the questions are always about the refs. Unfortunately journalists also share the blame, there is always something that leads to polemics.”
Seems like there is a lot of pessimism around the team.
“We just need to focus on our selves and do well. We have great possibilities.”
How come people tend to see the glass as half empty?
“That is not important.”
Will you be playing the same players from here on? Did you expect a bigger impact from some?
“Changing a lot has not been easy, in the beginning it went great. Now we have paid for that, but the players have done everything necessary.”
Do you need to do something different tomorrow, regarding the manner of affronting the game?
“We need to defend against Fiorentina and the attitude will be very important.”
Source: Inter.it
“Miranda will help us a lot, but we did not concede a single one for five moths. At Verona it was just a coincidence, the Brazilian will help us. We always work on that.”
Bullshits!!!
After you read such a incompetent, unprofessional, elementary explanation you can finally realize why we are in such a deep crisis. Even Stevie Wonder can see, that stupid zonal coverage was the reason we conceded three goals from set pieces against Verona. After the game Verona player who’s executing the set pieces for them, confess that they are studying our game by set pieces and they were saw our mistakes and problems. But our almighty coach doesn’t see that or won’t recognize his own flaws and mistakes.
I believe Mancini can bring us back to be one of the elite club in the world..
He is not that dumb like what people said..
Even Sir Alex need time to build Man utd..
Ferguson appointed 6 nov 1986, his first trophy was 1990 FA Cup
(man utd finished 13th at that season, btw) after 3 f*ckin
season without any f*ckin single trophy !!
His first Premiership won was on 92-93 season ( 6 YEARS AFTER HE’S APPOINTED !! )
After that season Man utd become the main force in the prem league until He RETIRED !
I believe Mancini can be our ” Alex Ferguson “, we just need to give him more time..
Rembember when all of us praised this shit for his 1-0 wins? We had luck all the time, if we don’t make CL this year Thohir will never invest money without selling players, maybe a coach llike Simeone will come.. that would be our only hope
I didn’t praise. I was happy to win 1-0 instead of losing 0-1 or 1-1.
you will get sacked this season trust me.
“We do not need to start over, we have done well up until this point”
no, we have done well (well/lucky) up until the Lazio game in december. the last ~2 months were disastrous
Exactly! Handanovic was Man of the match in every game up until the Lazio game. Like the game against Empoli. Empoli completly dominated us, but they couldnt get past Handa. Since his form dropped a little Internhave dropped too in the table.
On what basis are you judging handanovic’s form off? When the players ahead of him plays headless there is little he can do to help us…me might be godlike but he isn’t God…the defenders need to stand up and be counted…too many mistakes
i didnt mean his out of form now, i mean his before Christmas form was superhuman. No one can keep up that kind of form the entire season. He is still the best keeper in the league though.
Very true…I could remember him making triple saves like vs Roma…boy do we need that tomorrow for a clean sheet….
yeah i remember too that was incredible
And that save with his foot against atalanta, very grateful for him
this might be the most important match of our season yet, if we lose i don’t see us even finishing fourth or fifth
Unfortunetly both Roma and Fiorentina have better coaches, our only hope is CL and EL games will take energy away and cause injuries to their star players.
you know what i fear the most? i think even Milan is going to take us over, despite they were like 15 points behind 3 months ago
Bla bla…..bullshit as allways. 17 new players and 130 mil euro since Mancini arrived and Inter is 5 th place with no idea how to play, constantly failing tacticaly as motivating players too and ruining selfconfidence. CL dream is far away and that is solely on Mancini. Hopeing for best but expekting the worst, thats Inter life these days.
Well said mate
Couldnt agree with you more. This dude is the most overrated coach on the planet.
what the hell he said, tomorrow against fiorentina is decissive. i guess he try to find a reason to be irresponsible.
He said nothing wrong,tomorrow is a damn important match for third spot but it is not the last chance,even if we lose there are still lot of games to be played,but it would be hard though if we lose tomorrow..
the importance of that match is about psychological impact. of course point must be crucial, but reinvent club mental competitiveness should placed above. especially against top teams.
True,we are missing that “we will win this” mentality and maybe if we win today we can get a good boost for the rest of the season..
Then again i thought that 2:0 against Napoli would provide a hughe boost but it didn’t,and maybe that is the coaches foult..