Grande inter! couldn't watch the game.. just watched only the goals
How did we play? how was our defense?
Our defense for the most part was pretty good. However, the second goal was just horrible. Vagner Love got the ball on the left side of the box and BOTH Zanetti (who is a natural right back obviously) AND Lucio just let him cut in and have a clear shot at goal. And when I say clear... I mean CLEAR. They just watched him take the shot. (look at the highlights) There was a clear lapse in concentration from our two most naturally gifted defenders.
Samuel also made a bad tackle right outside of the box that led to the freekick which the first goal resulted from.
Lucio was good for the most part besides that one mistake, and he had a couple of clinical interceptions in the defensive third beating his man to the ball. This was true for much of the team.
Chivu on the other hand was Chivu. Did some good things.. did some utterly stupid crap, but was okay for the most part. Thus I don't know really how to answer... we were much better than we were with Gasperini, but we still need improving. Anything after three in the back will look better. Right?
Nagatomo was pretty good going forward and was decent at right back as well.. he made the second goal all by himself pretty much.
When we get Maicon back.. I think we will continue to improve.
Overall, individually we got beat sometimes which is to be expected, but I think we defended as a TEAM, something that had been lacking ever since last season. This is one great sign that we are coming back slowly. Just by seeing that Cambiasso is operating in his role and is playing well tells you a whole lot.