Aye…Silvestre starting? I hope he can be switched on the entire match tomorrow…and make good decisions….

And the 3-man midfield with Zanetti, Gargano, Pereirra is so weak for ball possession and dictate tempo when 2 of them are not true midfield and better in the wing.

i hope this rotation system works ….

midfield doesnt look convincing to me!!! whose gonna play the ball then?!!

why does zanetti always have to play every game? he should rest some time.

I think with this formation, we will try to play attacking football with ball possession. If we able to force Rubin to play defensively, there is no real worries regarding who plays in CB. I believe Silvestre and Samuel are more than enough to secure the back line because we will play much of the ball on the Rubin’s field. Plus, don’t forget bro, we have Handanovic between the sticks. As you can see, there is no pure defensive midfielder, all we have is passers.

11 minutes left

i presume its jonathan’s last game in black and blue

Jonathan is a waste of space… cant cross, cant defend, and cant attack….

Get Jonathan off the pitch he just missed a sure fire goal by anyone else

You know what? Our midfielder is simply cant cope with rubin’s. And we dont have playmaker. I think we need to give coutinho more ball or change jonathan with sneijder and zanetti become RB. If not, we need luck to win this game.

should have put on Sneijder for Cassano

pererya is looking like quaresma

Looking at the lineup, our struggle was expected. But after several games in the season I have to question Strama’s training method and tactic. The whole team has grit, but strangely lacks discipline. I’m not talking about their ego, but that they just seem to rely on instinct when they play. Strama doesn’t seem to have enough tactical details in his bag to cope with for various situations. It’s a problem that he does not even know his best 11 yet. And when he rotates he does not seem to care the whole chemistry. Udiense rotates its players all the time, but still manages to do well. Should that be the difference between the veteran Guidolin and Strama? I also think what made difference in Roma game was also the tactician. Zeman just brilliantly outwitted Strama.

btw, i cant see my comments guys. i’ve made a quite long comment that i just cant rewrite :)

now i want to see inter formation like this:
Handa
JZ4-Ranno-Juan-Yuto
Guarin-Gargano
Cou-WS10-Cassano
milito

I think coutinho is rarely given the ball tonight. That’s why he did nothing. If he received more ball or become the playmaker, I’m sure our attack will be more organized.

This is paining me so much, what happened to the days of The Meazza being a fortress. We knew going in with Strama that he doesn’t have the experience of coaches like Capello, so there will be tough matches like this one. If we plan on playing attacking, possession football we need a regista. Without that our midfield is continually out of position, to remedy this maybe M’Vila? Jonathan had a poor game, I’d rather see Nagatomo at right-back and Pereira at left-back. To be honest Ranocchia and Juan Jesus need to play as much as they can to keep building their chemistry, Silvestre will be heading back to Palermo. So what we really need is M’Vila and another veteran attacker like Giuseppe Rossi to put the chances we get away.

we’re just at the beginning of the season, and we’re ought to rotate the squad?? gimme a break and for god sake stop playing silvestre, samuel and Jonathan they will cost our team a lot of points this year

it all started with the loss to Schalke 5-2, San Siro is nothing like the fortress it used to be! Siena thumping will change that 6-0 hopefully Forza Nerazurra!

Although Strama’s coaching hasn’t been up to standard, particularly in how he has chosen to organize the midfield, we must remember, that we do not have a squad filled with quality.

Our last transfer period was not as fruitful as many on here believed. The best player we secured was Hando, but we overpaid with 11mil+Faraoni. For comparison, Lloris was secured for 12mil, despite being a younger keeper with much more potential. Gargano and Silvestre are nothing but stop gaps and Pereira is very weak on the ball and not worth the 15mil paid for him. Cassano, whilst talented is a basket-case and Palacio is solid depth but also not worth 11mil. But at least we cut our salary.

Fact is we overpaid for mediocre players, and continued to sell off young Italian talents. We have a solid core with Sneijder, Milito, Cambiasso, Hando, Rano and Zanetti, but our vastly inexperienced coach, dysfunctional midfield and inability to keep clean sheets, we will not re-secure our lost Champions league spot.