In football, like in real life - one day it's better, the other it's worse. This is natural way of things, that after a spell of succesful games the defeats come, and after a spell of defeats a pass of succesful games come. Some people tough, don't find it easy to understand it, and they also can't handle this situation in which Inter finds itself at the moment. And as we all know, when things don't go your way... you have to find a single individual, who is to blame for it all.
Some time ago, I had the pleasure to write for this site an editorial, so called deffense of one particular portugese guy. This time I'll try to partially excuse Rafa, although after this evening, this idea seems very brave, and for some even ridiculous. I understand the anger the fans are going through, because in this season Inter doesn't look very well, but no fan of the team of Milano should direct all his acusations to the coaches adress.
Lets start with the fact, that key players are often injured, and when they play, they play a lot worse, than how they did in previous seasons. And it's not because the spaniard didn't prepare them adequatly. We can ofcourse write books about it why this is happening, what's happening, and look for the new reasons. In my opinion the reason is very simple, the one I already touched at the beginning of this piece. Players of Inter are just humans, who can't be all the time in a disposition, they were in may at Bernabeu. It is pretty unreasonable that for the worse form of players we blame in the first place, not the player himself, but Benitez. Diego Milito doesn't score a lot of goals because he sees Benitez. Julio Cesar has injury, because he sees Benitez and not Mourinho. Davide Santon plays bad, because he sees Benitez. Soon enough we will assume, that outside of the window is snowing a lot, because at the bench of Inter is sitting Rafa, and not the portugese. If it was "The Special One" who would coach Inter, probably we would have the whether like in the tropics. In opinion of many fans, and also the president Moratti, Rafa got the team of champions, the team of champions who never make mistakes, and always win. And when they loose, it's because of the coach, because ofcourse our players are perfect in every way. This is very deluding and dangerous myth, in which some started to believe after a winningful season.
Ofcourse I don't believe, that Benitez is without the blame and I'm sure a team could present itself a little better. Rafa is a solid coach, but not from the top tier, which is known for a long time. He probably will still build a reasonably strong side, but for certain it will not have as high quality, as it was last season, and we simply have to come to terms with this.
Lastly, I would like to point to some behavioral pattern in some of us: the more games we loose, the more we worship... Mourinho. It is somewhat of a paradax, that I touching this issue am writing myself - as someone truthuly stated in the comment - in the current of writing about the portugese, but while after every defeat there will always be someone, who is crying after Jose, you have to react. When Benitez was taking charge of Inter, Mourinho was in our eyes magnificent coach, the one we will always fondly remember. When Milan is running away by every week, Jose is becoming "a big mag, a master of improvisation and widely considered grotesque, tzar of coaches and strategians".
I don't know, how well are you dealing with this situation, and what will you do after another defeat of Inter. Some will probably go into despair, and throwing darts at Benitez's picture. Me, on the other hand, I will think about it a little, and analize it, what happened, and tomorrow with a smile on my face I'll go with Benitez for a cold beer.
Because defeats, and bad coaches are written in existence of every big club, and you just have to live with it.
PS. Mourinho is far away from God, and we, the writers of articles, are far away from the greatest poets and writers.
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, it would be the easiest to identify with your point about Maicon and the fact Rafa tactics didn't help his game. I think if someone is hurting the most out of the tactic switch it's this guy.
Oh fuck me, please no... The while world will laugh at us.
