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Jimmy
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ONLY INTER: INTER – PARMA
Doom-day has arrived and Inter has once again the opportunity to choke. ‘Wohoo!’, says our over-paid superstars and are preparing themselves in possible the worst way that exists.
Or could I actually be wrong? Will Inter finally acknowledge just how big this team is and what disgraces they are making of themselves? Most likely not, since very few of our players perform for Inter´s sake. However, Facchetti has apparently paid a visit to Appiano Gentile after the Lecce game and told them off. Materazzi and Kily has been two players who has spoken that Facchetti really humiliated them. Will it make a difference? We´ll have to wait and see. Just want to warn all of you that a team that lacks pride will not respond on such degrading comments.
If we´re supposed to consider Parma a big team, the record against big teams this season is worthless, per usual. We´ve only won against Juve (and that twice!), but the rest of the games we have more or less sucked. So my expectations for this game is close to zero. I think we can at best draw against Parma and hand Lazio the CL spot. Well, if Inter will choke as usual, I wish that Lazio get that place anyway.
Positive and negative points of going and not going to the CL:
POSITIVE
NEGATIVE
These are some elements that we will play for against Parma. Shhhhh…. Don´t say all this to our players, because then they would choke even more.
How´s the status in our team right now, then? Well, we have some injured players on their way back, such as Recoba, Van der Meyde and Cristiano Zanetti. It´s going to take a miracle before Van der Meyde get a chance in this team, but Recoba seems to be a player that during the week has been brilliant in the practice matches. One has to admire Recoba this season who´s actually been very consistent and a protagonist each time he has played. Such luck that this season he has been more injured than fit.
Christian Vieri has seemingly been on a good mood this week, so that means that Zac has probably told him that he will start no matter what happens. Will Zac bench Adriano or will he try this duo once more? Most likely, this duo will play, but there´s been rumours that Adriano suffers from fitness problem. Let´s hope not.
Maybe the trio Recoba- Vieri – Adriano will play. Would be interesting to see, but that leaves one of Stankovic (yeah right) or Emre on the bench. My opinion is that both Emre and Stankovic should start.
We´ll struggle against Parma in defence, for sure. Their attacking players are very good at movement, while we completely suck at it. If Gilardino won´t score, then someone like Bresciano will. Someone who will make that faking movement, and then our defenders are clueless of where to be. This is why we need to put pressure on Parma in midfield already, and win the balls there. If Cristiano Zanetti play, he´ll be a very important part of the puzzle we have to create to win this game.
Parma has a full squad and a formation they´ve used all season, so they have the advantage. Inter is better on paper and has proved before that they can win against Parma. They have the match-winners, but it´s needed that one of them (or preferably more) put on the responsibility for this game.
Don´t let us down again!
Jimmy Fredholm
Doom-day has arrived and Inter has once again the opportunity to choke. ‘Wohoo!’, says our over-paid superstars and are preparing themselves in possible the worst way that exists.
Or could I actually be wrong? Will Inter finally acknowledge just how big this team is and what disgraces they are making of themselves? Most likely not, since very few of our players perform for Inter´s sake. However, Facchetti has apparently paid a visit to Appiano Gentile after the Lecce game and told them off. Materazzi and Kily has been two players who has spoken that Facchetti really humiliated them. Will it make a difference? We´ll have to wait and see. Just want to warn all of you that a team that lacks pride will not respond on such degrading comments.
If we´re supposed to consider Parma a big team, the record against big teams this season is worthless, per usual. We´ve only won against Juve (and that twice!), but the rest of the games we have more or less sucked. So my expectations for this game is close to zero. I think we can at best draw against Parma and hand Lazio the CL spot. Well, if Inter will choke as usual, I wish that Lazio get that place anyway.
Positive and negative points of going and not going to the CL:
POSITIVE
- IF we go to the Champions League, we will receive a lot of extra money that we wouldn´t get if we go to the CL.
- We´ll be back with the big boys in Europe again
- We´ll be able to keep players that are just here to play for a big team in big competitions.
- IF we DON´T go to the Champions League, it would be positive in the sense that Zacherroni risks a bigger chance of getting fired.
NEGATIVE
- IF we go to the Champions League it will be negative in two senses:
1. We will receive those extra cash which we use in such ludicrous way no matter what. We´ll probably buy some players who we don´t need at all.
2. We would have to start our pre-season a month earlier because of the CL qualifying matches. Considering the Euro 2004, this might become devastating for us, since our players at the end of next season would suffer from serious fatigue.
- If we fail to qualify for the CL, we might not be able to attract the very few players who could actually be of use for us. I´m not talking about big super-stars, because that our team is full of. I´m talking about youngsters that a lot of teams are looking for, and if we want to be in the race, we also need a great reputation.
These are some elements that we will play for against Parma. Shhhhh…. Don´t say all this to our players, because then they would choke even more.
How´s the status in our team right now, then? Well, we have some injured players on their way back, such as Recoba, Van der Meyde and Cristiano Zanetti. It´s going to take a miracle before Van der Meyde get a chance in this team, but Recoba seems to be a player that during the week has been brilliant in the practice matches. One has to admire Recoba this season who´s actually been very consistent and a protagonist each time he has played. Such luck that this season he has been more injured than fit.
Christian Vieri has seemingly been on a good mood this week, so that means that Zac has probably told him that he will start no matter what happens. Will Zac bench Adriano or will he try this duo once more? Most likely, this duo will play, but there´s been rumours that Adriano suffers from fitness problem. Let´s hope not.
Maybe the trio Recoba- Vieri – Adriano will play. Would be interesting to see, but that leaves one of Stankovic (yeah right) or Emre on the bench. My opinion is that both Emre and Stankovic should start.
We´ll struggle against Parma in defence, for sure. Their attacking players are very good at movement, while we completely suck at it. If Gilardino won´t score, then someone like Bresciano will. Someone who will make that faking movement, and then our defenders are clueless of where to be. This is why we need to put pressure on Parma in midfield already, and win the balls there. If Cristiano Zanetti play, he´ll be a very important part of the puzzle we have to create to win this game.
Parma has a full squad and a formation they´ve used all season, so they have the advantage. Inter is better on paper and has proved before that they can win against Parma. They have the match-winners, but it´s needed that one of them (or preferably more) put on the responsibility for this game.
Don´t let us down again!
Jimmy Fredholm
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