Summer 2011 Schedule

Anon said:

Disaster?

We lost against a Chievo side in a friendly. Chievo took this game as a league cup final...even their bench joined in goal celebrations whereas our intensity levels were way down.

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Inter7 said:

im not even slightly concerned by this game..... everyone on this forum has lost it

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Somehow nothing is ever bad enough for a few here. You leave your angry mood for a 2-5 Schalke scenario only? Everytime's it's like:


- We lost this game so what... we lost that game so what?
- The management is doing great, we shouldn't criticize them!
- The mercato hasn't even started yet, we should shut our mouths lol!!!
- The mercato is still open for 3 days, we should shut up lol!!!


If you have trouble impressing in these small unimportant games, how do you wanna do it when you're facing the big ones? Well, we've seen enough of a season preview already & quite frankly it's not promising. It's not like from the first day of the new season, this team will suddenly beat all the opponents like a 8055.

Not a single game out of all the pre-season matches was well played during the full 90 minutes. We lost to Milan, we lost to Man City, we lost to fuckin' Chievo, we almost lost to Olympiacos, we couldn't score a single goal against Galatasaray. And according to some, we should keep looking like this blivious: cuz we have an easy group in the CL? Well, this team is a total joke at the moment.

We had one game changer who could actually play some damn football & we sold him for peanuts to the Russians. We have more goalkeepers in our squad than forwards now !!! I don't know about you guys, but I'm bringing down my expectations from this Inter as low as possible. I'm preparing myself psychologically for the upcoming shit storm of a season, so I don't freak the fuck out everytime we get our asses handed to us on a silver plate.

Call it drama, tragedy, satire or whatever the fuck y'all want... but it takes no genius to see this team has major fuckin' problems everywhere possible, which will cost us important points, money & most important, our reputation.

I stopped watching this abortion of a match after the first half hour. Sounds like I missed some more real quality football.

I sure as fuck hope Gasp realizes that his favorite formation doesn't work with these players. Hopefully it won't take us being 10 points back from Milan in October to drive this point home.

All I need to say is:

Seriously, we'll fail if Gasp keeps that 3 man defence.

The way I see it, as a bare minimum for the start of the season Interisti could at least expect minor improvements with each passing game. Towards the end of pre-season, it would have been nice to get some confidence building wins but this has not happened. My greatest concern is our porous defence and with the way way we are conceding goals, I get the feeling that it is going to be a very long and unhappy season full of many disappointments and embarrassments. To those of you who believe that we will simply flick a switch in our first league game and play convincing football and be championship contenders you are mistaken and do not know or understand football very well. Lastly, as I have stated in earlier posts, Gasperini will not last more than than one season and we can kiss this season goodbye.

didnt watch the game but i lolled when i read the result. what an idiot this gasperini, he always want to play with wingers only problem is we dont have none! lol alvarez aint no winger, sneijder aint no winger, coutinho aint no winger, obi prefers the cm. the way i see it we just need to stop using this winger system, its the only logical thing to do. buy a decent ss, use 2 or 1 strikers on front and most of all use a formation that fits the damn team for christ sake. fucking stubborn idiot 343...

Just saw the highlights of the game. But again i saw the ease in which we concede goals (apart from the free kick).

Bye Bye back 3 or bye bye Gasp !

Were are the "experts" who were saying that the 3 man defense isn't the problem of the team? Sorry but I'd thus dome big fuvking joke? Did funniest home video show hire you? Every minute I look around my shoulder expecting Ashton Kutcher to jump out from behind some random place. So.... There's no difference in playing a 3 msn defense or 4 man defense huh. Well "experts", what's the excuse this time? I'd like to hear something from you guys again.Thank you mercato for showing me the light, and who not to take seriously in this forum.

Thanks for the strike, so we can keep the three points...for two more weeks. With this pace we will fucking lose a lot of points early on.

So what would you like me to do Leo? Cry? Scream?

If it was round 1 and we lost 3 points...I'd do just that. But i'll save my effort for when we %^$$ up in the league.

Don't criticise him? By all means, tear apart Gasp. I never said you couldn't.

I just can't wait for the day when he changes to 4 at the back...and we still get raped by some mid-table team

I didnt watch the game,
but lost against chievo? :troll:

IMHO, Zac's 3-4-3 in 2003/2004 is better then Gasperini's 3-4-3

I can understand that you have not played competitive sports before Hal, thus your statement "it's just a friendly". But this was the week we were supposed to start our league campiagn. We should have had our game faces on by now. That's something that you just can't switch on or off, it's something that builds up in the players...the reason we have friendlies and pre season tournaments. If the only excuse the experts can give is "it's not a league match", then I have clearly misjudged the level of your "expertness"Also Hal, if you have a good reason why we will still suck even by playing a 4 man defense, I'd Like to hear it. I think everyone needs a good laugh after our performance yesterday.

I saw the tape of the goals we conceded... WTF was up with that 3rd goal? Major @ Ranocchia and Faraoni.

Okay, a lot of people here is screaming that we lost because of Gasp and his stupid 3 man defence. But I just watched the highlights, and honestly, I don't see how our 3 man defence was culpable for the goals we conceded. The first goal was from a long shot, very little our defence can do about that. The second was from a freekick. And the third was a huge fuck-up from Faraoni and Rannochia. I don't see how converting to a 4 man defence will suddenly stop us from conceding long range shots and freekicks.

But still, I am upset that we lost. We should have picked Chievo apart, considering that we are supposed to play our first league match today. What is to blame for the loss is not the 3 man defence, it's our whole team, our mentality. We just don't look ready for our first league match, while Chievo was all up and raring to go.

Why wAs the fk given away in the first place? Why was the long shot taken with nobody around him? Yes youre right, nothing to do with the 3 man defence! of course a 4 man defense would have stopped chievo Much better from driving down the middle of the field, compared to playing with 3 at the back and with such a high defense line.


Also you think the 3 man defense system only affects our defensive set up.. You just answered your own question scutz, as to why we Unable to break through weaker teams and are looking as crappy as we are.

Have a look at the whole match.. You will understand.

This is my opinion from the highlights only. I didn't watch the match, so yes, if the 3 man defence fucked up during the entirety of the match, and those fuck-ups were not shown in the highlights, then I must confess I do not know about that.

But from the highlights alone, I can't see the 3 man defence at fault for any of the goals we conceded. Let me break it down, the first goal: a long range shot, Rannochia was pressing, the shot still got through, and it went in. Second goal: set piece, Cambiasso shouldn't have fouled the player, especially considering the guy had almost no options. Third goal was all Rannochia's fault.

And, we did create a lot of chances against Chievo, we just weren't sharp enough to put the ball in the back of the net. So I don't think it's fair to say we were unable to break them down.

Like I said... Watch the game. The build up play and ease of counter attack from chievo is just pathetic.What you get from the highlights just don't do the formation justice.


But you are right, and the hundreds of ppl who saw the game are wrong.

Scutzon watch the match bro :work:

No need Sid... This is a new breed of fan, a kind of super fan. Where watching highlights of goals paints the perfect picture of how the goals came about. Scutzon bro, you paint a nice picture of how you think the goals occured, but do you know every example you have given sways in my favour of saying the 3 man defense was at fault. I'm not going to gi through every goal with you, but just leave you with this. Ouf defense would not have been left in the situations they were caught in leading to the goals if we had set up with our normal 4 man defense. You think we would have been so isolated in any other situation. Why was frog so slow in closing down on the first goal? Why did we commit a foul in such a dangerous position for the second? Why were we stranded with the walking timebomb that is the frog for the third? All these come down to us playing with three at the back.

We have some of the best defenders in Europe. There's no reason why our backline is looser then a 20 buck Thai tranny. And let's stop using our youth as an excuse. Management has decided that's it's time to rejuvenAte the team. This has been their decision. If they think that we can go with this youth approach and still be competitive, then we should strike that excuse off the list. At the moment our form has nothing to do with our players.

And though this particular game wS just a friendly, We were supposed to be playing our first league game this week. Yet, we still look clueless out there. No doubt that we were missing a few key players out there, I never really expected much from us. But to play how we did with certain ppl in their positions....oh man I'm glad they've pushed the games back.

With Forlán and Poli we have a fantastic squad in quantity and quality:


FOR 4312!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

blackmore said:

No need Sid... This is a new breed of fan, a kind of super fan. Where watching highlights of goals paints the perfect picture of how the goals came about.

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I've already admitted that I've only watched the highlights. And yes, the 1 minute shown of the goal during the highlights DO indeed portray how we conceded the goal. Please layoff your 'mightier than thou' attitude just because you watched the match. Lay down the facts, and if I'm wrong, I'll admit it. No need for the sarcasm.

blackmore said:

Why was frog so slow in closing down on the first goal?

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Rannochia wasn't slow in closing down on the first goal. The Chievo player spun round Cambiasso who was marking him, and that's why Rannochia had to step up to close him down. If you watched the goal, you'll see that Rannochia was already on him before he took the shot.

blackmore said:

Why did we commit a foul in such a dangerous position for the second?

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Cambiasso comitting the foul is not the fault of the 3 man defence. It is Cambiasso's fault. There is no need to commit the foul, there was no danger, and the freekick was a result of Cambiasso's stupid decision.

blackmore said:

Why were we stranded with the walking timebomb that is the frog for the third? All these come down to us playing with three at the back.

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So if we're playing four at the back, there would be no situation where Rannochia would be the last defender? None whatsoever? If Rannochia is a walking timebomb, why is he even playing? Are you even reading what you're writing?

You say all my examples swings things in your favour. Please read what YOU wrote. I think they sound even more ridiculous.

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And just to clarify things; did I mention I'm in favour of the 3-4-3? No. Do I like it? No, not really.

But do I think we lost 2-3 against Chievo because of the formation? NO. We lost cause we weren't sharp enough when we really should be.