M.Adnan said:
For those who blame Mancini:
Under all these circumstances, you have to win in Valencia.
This is where I blame him. The game in the San Siro should have been the catalyst for OUR qualification. We had the chance to be 2-0 or 3-0 up front in the first half, but we only had a 1-0, and he sat and waited for Valencia to attack us and they finally scored 2, because his first choice goalkeeper messed things up! He had a ready Adriano on the bench, and didn't use him just because he got drunk during his birthday party, which was 4 days before!(3 actually...it was an after-night party)
Still, you don't do that to your best player at the time(yes Adriano was our most in-form player that time) Mancini was asking for it and unfortunately FOR US, he got it. Do you think he cares as much as we do? If he had signed a contract, why do it before the crucial CL game and the Milan Derby? If I was him, and cared, I'd say in front of all, I have a contract, and I'll wait for after we qualify and after we beat Milan to sign it. Since he likes talking on the edge, that would suit a guy who cares about the team he works for.
And how can't Mancio be blamed for our first half performance? How can you give orders to keep your strength for the second half, when your opponent was doing the same facking thing? :lala:
Everyone was talking about Inter going on an all-out-attack formation, and what we saw was a soft edition of catenaccio, with Materazzi playing long balls and Deki being forced to give first touch long passes because he was always surrounded by 3! A coach wouldn't allow the other coach to toy around with his players. Some of our players got very tight marking, two at the time for each striker, and Mancio didnt have the decency of telling our fullbacks to attack, but "forced" them to stay back to save strength ffs! We had 90 minutes to turn things round, and Mancio wanted to spend the first 45!!! Talk about good coaching!
And yes, we didn't have our two DMs. So what? Neither did Valencia after Baraja got injured(he had just recovered) I thought we were the team with the great bench that everyone could replace everyone? Finally realise that this is a myth? One of the reasons I didn't want Vieira(he's been very good so far I have to admit) at Inter in the summer was that we wouldn't have sufficient back up, and now that he's out, Burdisso and Zanetti have to take his place
Mancini ->USCITA!!