Genoa - Inter (7 Mar 09)

[Alessandro]

VS

Sat, Mar 7 2009, 18:00
Stadio Luigi Ferraris

[Handoyo]

I'll take a draw, honestly.

BUT, a win is not impossible. Their home record is the best in the league with 8-4-0 (WWWW WWDD WDWD) and 25-10 (Most home goals in Serie A). And as you can see, they've drawn 4 of their last 6 home matches against Bologna, Atalanta, Catania & Fiorentina. Maybe it coincided with Milito's injury, I don't know...

[CafeCordoba]

This is match is in a very tough spot. We haven't won in last three games and right after this match is the most important match of the season so far. But we CAN'T continue to lose ground on Juve. They're coming back even if they don't win with style or flair. We have to keep the point difference so that Juve will have all the pressure in the Scudetto showdown on 19th of April for a must-win.

Damn that Milito is back, with our current defensive record, it seems we can't keep a clean sheet yet again. Keeping the clean sheet is, after all, one of the corner stones of winning the Scudetto.

[lonewolf19]

We need to win this game no doubt. It is going to be a super hard clash considering Genoa's home form.

This game is not only important for morale boosting but also to break the duck of recent poor performances. We conceded six goals in 2 games.

Forza Inter and damn Milito is back

Is Samuel and Chivu ready? We desperately need them at the back

[Ziyad]

I would normally say rest those you can afford to rest for ManU but unfortunately the circumstances wont allow it...

[Rocco]

I hope for a win but would settle for a draw. It would be really great though to head to Manchester with a 3-0 win.

[Adam]

I think we should forget about Manchester and focus 100% on Genoa without resting a single player. Can't afford to let the lead slip to just four points,. Besides getting raped by Genoa is hardly gonna make us more confident ahead of Manchester. We need a win to end this bad streak we're having, and gain some confidence.

[Interista nr.1]

I agree, no resting players here, for me only question is should adriano play or balotelli.

[CafeCordoba]

I think we should forget about Manchester and focus 100% on Genoa without resting a single player. Can't afford to let the lead slip to just four points,. Besides getting raped by Genoa is hardly gonna make us more confident ahead of Manchester. We need a win to end this bad streak we're having, and gain some confidence.

Absolutely. Scudetto needs to be the priority number uno as our chances against ManU with 100% squad is still under 50%. And victory from Genoa would boost our morale heading towards that CL clash.

[Azzkikr]

Cant see us getting a win here in current form.

Draw at best. Obviously we shouldnt rest anyone as the united clash is already lost.

Lets hope we dont let in 3 goals like in the last two matches, although its likely to repeat itself here,

[lonewolf19]

Genoa
Cautioned: Biava, Ferrari, Jankovic, T.Motta, Papastathopoulos, Rossi, Vanden Borre.
Disqualified: -

Inter
Cautioned: Samuel, Zanetti.
Disqualified: Vieira.

[Alex de Large]

Is Samuel fit to play this one?

[Alessandro]

Yeah the wall will return for this game.

[Il Muro]

The second group of players, which included Francesco Bolzoni, Nicolas Burdisso and Zlatan Ibrahimovic who all trained individually yesterday, went through a full training session involving warm-up exercises, technical-tactical and shooting drills, and a series of tactical practice matches.

Cristian Chivu and Walter Samuel continued their injury rehabilitation with circuit training and agility exercises with and without the ball, followed by strength building sessions in the gym.

It seems like Chivu and Samuel are still not fully recovered from their respective injuries. Perhaps they will skip this one aswell and only return for Man Utd game.

Great that Ibrahimovic is recovered though.

[Azzkikr]

Chivu has really been a terrible signing.

He has done ok most of the time, but he is simply injured waaaaaaay too much.

[Nerazzurro]

Chivu has really been a terrible signing.

He has done ok most of the time, but he is simply injured waaaaaaay too much.

....

[jamsieboy86]

We have to win this game. We can't allow Juve to close the gap two weeks in a row, assuming they beat Torino, which they usually do.

[Drake44444]

I can't believe the pessimism here. Draw at best !?!?

Mourinho isn't going to rest players for Man U. He didn't against Bologna right before Man U.

Players need to play and need to play well to carry the momentum later in the week. Being humiliated twice in Genoa isn't going to help against Man U.

It will be a totally different team if people are fit to play.

Replace Rivas with Samual.
Replace Mancini with Ibra.
Viera with Cambiasso.
Santon back on the left.
Cesar back in with his excellent form.

Team is instantly 1000 times better than yesterday.

[Nyall]

Chivu has really been a terrible signing.

He has done ok most of the time, but he is simply injured waaaaaaay too much.

Then since he's been a terrible signing (your words) didn't that mean that we had a terrible summer as well?

[CafeCordoba]

I can't believe the pessimism here. Draw at best !?!?

Mourinho isn't going to rest players for Man U. He didn't against Bologna right before Man U.

Players need to play and need to play well to carry the momentum later in the week. Being humiliated twice in Genoa isn't going to help against Man U.

It will be a totally different team if people are fit to play.

Yeah, they didn't rest against Bologna but still they sucked. In the end we had great problems with Bologna pushing us. I just hope now our team have that different attitude and they don't think about Man U match.