Sep26

Serie A: Chievo 0-2 Inter

Serie A 74 comments

Sometimes, it is better to be lucky than good. That was how Inter got the 1-0 lead in the first half. We were poor overall especially in the offensive end. Can’t create. Can’t pass. Can’t put together anything. It was like our strategy was give the ball to Cassano (or Sneijder) and hope for the best.

Thank goodness for FantAntonio Cassano. What a player. His finish for the 2-0 was like from a cold blooded killer. Some of the credits also go to Gargano for making the decisive pass.

Here is Inter’s away record after five away games: FIVE WINS, 12 GOALS SCORED, ZERO CONCEDED. Why play at the San Siro…

STARTING LINEUPS

Chievo Verona: 54 Sorrentino; 2 Dainelli, 6 M.Rigoni, 12 Cesar, 16 L.Rigoni, 17 Di Michele, 20 Sardo, 21 Frey, 25 Vacek, 31 Pellissier, 56 Hatemaj.
Subs: 1 Puggioni, 5 Guana, 8 Cruzado, 9 Moscardelli, 11 Samassa, 14 Cofie, 23 Viotti, 26 Farkas, 33 Papp, 39 Stoian, 77 Thereau, 99 Drame.
Coach: Domenico Di Carlo.

Inter: 1 Handanovic; 4 Zanetti, 10 Sneijder, 14 Guarin, 19 Cambiasso, 22 Milito, 23 Ranocchia, 25 Samuel, 31 Pereira, 40 Juan Jesus, 55 Nagatomo.
Subs: 12 Castellazzi, 27 Belec, 6 Silvestre, 7 Coutinho, 11 Alvarez, 16 Mudingayi, 20 Obi, 21 Gargano, 26 Chivu, 42 Jonathan, 88 Livaja, 99 Cassano.
Coach: Andrea Stramaccioni.

Referee: Sebastiano Peruzzo.

Prediction: Chievo 0-0 Inter

FORZA INTER

PREVIEW

It seems like Andrea Stramaccioni is still in the period of trying to find out what is best for this club. With several new players that came in the summer, the Roman coach is still looking for the club’s identity. According to the Gazzetta dello Sport, Inter are set to go back to the controversial three-man defense already today against Chievo.

With the return of Chivu, we should see the Romanian together with Juan Jesus and Ranocchia in front of Handanovic. While in the midfield, Inter should have three midfielders in Zanetti, Cambiasso and Guarin with Nagatomo and Pereira on the right and left. Up front, Cassano is expected to be rested by Stramaccioni which only leaves Sneijder behind Diego Milito.

Source: Gazzetta dello Sport

Tags Chievo Serie A

Kauko

Cambi won’t play, Nagatomo and Pereira will be wingers as they were now, only difference is, that the won’t need to play so much in defense. This formation won’t work. There is no point in it, we lack creativity when Guarin plays bad and the same will happen now. Sneijder is not enough. The whole midfield is for playing catanacho. And also about wingers, why are we using them if we don’t have anyone for high balls from the wings? If Livaja would play, ok, but after so many years, they should know that Principe is not a jumper. He needs balls from the middle and this formation won’t be able to do that.

I just don’t get Strama. I mean, he is great but again it looks like someone is pushing this formations in his head. He should just stick to what he said before the season and was playing the whole time during preperation matches. Handanovic- Zanetti(Nagatomo)-Ranocchia-Juan-Pereira(Nagatomo)-Guarin(Cambiasso)-Gargano(Cambiasso)- Coutinho(Cassano)-Sneijder-PalacioI(Cassano)-Milito(Livaja) 4-2-3-1 Simple and efective. We have a strong defense and lots of attacking possibilities. So we don’t need to hope that Guarin will have a good day for offensive dutys. And also, Cassano should be a backup. He is out of shape, but still a great asset to the team from the bench and that was why Strama wanted him. Why is he pushing him I don’t know.

Everything lookse like last season with Gasperini, new formation every match. STOP WITH THAT!!!
- Ossi
  
  Totally agree. Simpy not offensive enough. This is trouble.
ahmad

i’ve said lots of things about strama’s fuckin idea.3 midfielders who cant pass, have no vision, and only know how to defense.. afterall, lets hope we get 3 points
Alex G.Meazza

So we’ll play without attack once again.This formation would be totally understandable against Rubentus,but against every other team in Italy we must play 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1. In this formation we have so many useless players that can’t do anything usefull with the ball. I just can’t believe this,we have one of strongest attacks in europe and we are going to defend against Chievo.
- Στεφανος Τσουντας
  
  I know but bcz of branca strama doesn’t have the players to do the 4-3-3 formation
  - Kauko
    
    Its a joke right? :D
  - http://www.facebook.com/sanchezpostigo Renzo Oliver Sanchez Postigo
    
    but he has the players to play the 4-2-3-1 formation.
- dipesh
  
  agreed but partially we should not start guarin rather give coutinho the chance to shine, in a 3-4-2-1
- Jakey
  
  I agree. We some how seem to have had a bad start and panicked. There wasnt really much talk about inter not knowing our best line-up now all of a sudden were playing a different formation every game. Its almost no different from gasp or ranieri really. Playing those 5 in midfield when we have cou and cassano is a joke.
slim_blues_boy

cmon Strama, the season already begun, it’s not the time when you try different formation every match try to find balance. you should done it on pre-season, it’s the ‘home-work’.
analyze what we missed so far, and try to fix it with minimum changes.
look at Mou in his 1st season when he tried with 4-3-3 with two winger (mancini & quaresma), when he know it didn’t work, he changed it to 4-3-1-2. he only change the forward formation coz that was the problem.
and our main problem is on midfield not the defense. we have strong defense line (with Handa, Rano-Juan pair and JZ/Naga/Pereira as fullback). but our midfield are clueless. there’s no solid scheme both when attack or defense. there’s too much ‘holes’ on our midfield. fix the midfield, don’t change the whole area. just like Mou said, a great coach don’t change too much, he only change what need improvement.
- kuaz
  
  i could not agree with you man.. last couples of games, what is the main problem is inter midfield, whenever they attack and defend, they are absolutely ineffective. they fail to break counter attack from opponent, like the past of great 2010, they have solid dm thiago motta who can defend properly and support the attack. now guarin can’t even doing simple pass to team mates rather than try stupid killer pass to foward, while cambiaso is too slow to support attack and defend, now he is declining stage. inter need rbourst and flamboyant engine. thats all..
- dipesh
  
  thats because we dont play to our strengths, we should really be playing 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 with the players we have we do have more 2 technical players who can play on the wings in coutinho palacio and cassano, i ve herd talks of inter getting rossi in jan, and we have lavaja already who can play on the wings, hence we can play those to formations, in pre season the match coutinho played in was seen fairly often tracking back to retrieve possession and then run at the defense before passing or shooting he has taken the left attacking place and reminds me off eto’o so be it is less prolific, in the center we have sneijder and on the right palacio/cassano and alvarez to battle for places, the mid well we may get the best out of guarin if he is given more responsibility in his game if there are only 2 ball winners then he wont gallop forward and we wont lose balance
kalo m4s

This is just stupid….every time sneijder and milito played we lost. Why is pereira and nagatomo wingers :| its ok using 3 defenders but also using defenders as wingers its stupid. Instead of nagatomo alvarez can do the job cuz he can pass and has creativity. Pereira is an average player….we all know what coutinho can do. We should use a 3-4-3 or a 4-3-3….why does any coach inter have doesnt understand that sneijder needs people around him. We all know last season when we played against milan we used alvarez and sneijder as CAM and we dominated……this is absurd if we lost agains chievo..
kalo m4s

this is stupid..every time we played with sneijder and milito up front we lost. why would we use nagatomo and pereira as wingers when we all know they are defenders. nagatomo can just run…alvarez can do a lot more, he and sneijder can provide A LOT more creatvity and can pass more(which means more possesion). pereira as a winger cmon. we all know what coutinho can do…pereira is just an average player….and should fight with nagatomo for a LB place…why doesnt every coach inter have understand that sneijder needs players around him not defenders….we all saw the match against milan last season when alvarez and sneijder owned milan with their passes and creativity. we have one of the best attacks in europe and i know what im sayin…having players with such creativity means somethn. our most common formation should be 4-3-3, 3-4-3, 4-2-3-1, 4-3-2-1…..it would be absurd if we lose agains chiveo…
- Zan
  
  Well said. Alvarez and Coutinho should play this match instead of Pereira and Nagatomo, if Strama goes for this formation. Would love to see a match with the 4-2-3-1 formation, with Coutinho, Sneijder and Alvarez/Cassano behind Milito.
  I can only hope.
- dipesh
  
  i think our 4-3-2-1 is useless as when we play it stram uses cassasno who shifts to a second striker rather then stick to his position i would rather use 4-2-3-1 where are full attacking powers will be shown, hence we get the best out of coutinho and well sneijder can take the center of the attacking mid, hopefully we can give more chances to alvarez on the right wing, and we will have 2 deep defending midfielders which effectively meeans we have 4 central defender 2 wide mids and 3 attacking mids and a striker so we have 2 wide attaking mids on either side of the pitch giving us width and a midfield with defensive dexterity
http://www.facebook.com/wilsonkeneshiro Wilson Keneshiro

up front with only Milito and Sneijder in the attack will not guarantee a win. We should have Alvarez + sneijder + cassano in the AM position that supply the balls to milito to score…. Best would be 4-2-3-1.
http://www.facebook.com/loizos.ioakim Loizos Ioakim

if strama want a 3 man defence he should use juan rano and samuel instead of chivu atleast thats what i believe and play gargano guarin and mundigay behind coutinho sneijder and alvarez behind milito/cassano we dont have to use a central forward in case we use cassano instead of milito so the three behind him can change positions and play short pases instead of those fucking long balls we always try to play i hope you agree fellow interistas FORZA INTER!!!!!!!!!!!
interawy_q8

I have this feeling that strama won’t last with us this season.
http://www.facebook.com/kelierdy Kaveh Elierdy

at least remove a DM for alvarez! this line up cant be right, it just doesnt make sense!!!
DonTuliosS Interista

The problem with us is that we allways try to play on the wings,when Maicon was with us we allways played on the right wing whenever possible.
Now that Naga is playing on the left wing we allways play from the left wing wich i think is a waste of our football i mean why not try playing thru the middle,if we do try that it is easier to use the wings then,because we could eventually start playing ”Totall Football” meaning we can use the wings,the midfield and the defence to do so.
Anyway that’s my opinion about our Inter and one more thing that’s crystal clear is that if we manage to open up any team thru the middle,.. then my Interista brothers we have no problem anymore.
And we should try playing the 4-1-2-1-2 formation
With
—————–Handanovic
Zanetti—Rano.——J.Jesus—-Pereira
—————–cuchu
——-Guarin———-Gargano
—————-Wesley
——Palacio———Milito

Forza Inter allways in good and bad times
DonTuliosS Interista

And in this 3 – 5 – 1 – 1 instead of Nagatomo we should use Alvarez and intsead of Pereira we should use Coutinho!!
manow

chivu is the man.he will be the key man in defence.
- m
  
  prone to make many mistakes, unfortunately.
http://www.facebook.com/loizos.ioakim Loizos Ioakim

handanovic
rano samuel juan
guarin gargano obi/mundigay
ricky sneijder coutinho
milito/cassano/livajia
http://www.facebook.com/people/Idriss-Simon-Dao/614551829 Idriss Simon Dao

I think Coutinho should play! with a three man defense we seem more balanced with left backs pushing up front.. with Guarin and Cuchu as def mid we have two spots left behind Milito for Him and Wes.. Just my opinion..
Jack

Bad line up. We only have 2 attacking players. Strama needs to go to 4-2-3-1 with Coutinho, Alvarez, Sneijder and Milito up front
M

3-man defense make it harder to attack; essentially Inter should attack with one less player. Also, it is not compatible with players mindset who have played a 4-man d all their lives. I really like Strama but he has to stick to variations of 4-man D, IMO.
wasim

Totally pissed off with Strama if he chooses this formation! We have 3 good attacking midfielders Cou, Sneijder and Alvarez and either Palacio/Milito up front, all need to play. Milito needs more service and someone to do all the running off the ball for him leaving him just to focus on just finishing. Our passing and creativity in the last few games has been shocking! None of our players can cross to save their life, defending seems to be an after thought. Can’t believe I’m saying this but it might be good to have Chivu back so he can play at LB and JUST DEFEND as we SHOULD play 4 at the back. The DM’s both should just focus on defending and keeping the ball for our team for the time being and attack only when absolutely necessary, Strama should let the 4 forwards roam and attack when in possession and everyone else stop leaking goals!
http://www.facebook.com/bellal.amerkhail Bellal Amerkhail

Any links?
- Aleksi Kavasto
  
  http://www.sportlemon.tv/c-1.html
http://twitter.com/harvey562k11 harvey ryan

any1 no a gud site to watch the match????
- http://www.facebook.com/bellal.amerkhail Bellal Amerkhail
  
  I’m wondering too.. Starts in 25 mins I believe ?
original jack

I have to say baressi is the coach, only he can suggest thing kind of stupid formation. all the attacking players on the bench. he needs to grow some balls and bench cambiasso
- n1tefury
  
  we need to play cou and alvarez
azzam

so far so good, goal is what matter
INTer

without sneijder now we can play the best inter.
DonTuliosS Interista

I really don’t know how we managed to score this just pathetic nagatomo needs to be subbed A.S.A.P.!!
Aleksi Kavasto

Shitty first half. We have five midfielders and the defenders are playing long balls to our attackers – what’s the point. We are giving the ball possession too easily to Chievo. We aren’t able to play the ball to our wingers (Nagatomo and Pereira) – who both seems to be only average players. We need Coutinho and Palacio…
- Aleksi Kavasto
  
  Little better second half. Gargano was good when he came in. Good points! Forza Inter!
original jack

guarin thinks with his legs not head
INTer

kings on the road continue
n1tefury

Happy with the win but not happy with how strama pick his line up. How come he only fielded 2 attacking player in milito and sneijder (cassano). And why he doesn’t play alvarez or cou or both.
- http://www.facebook.com/Takbars87 Taufik Akbar Setiadi
  
  I think inter still not ready to play with 3 man upfront like yesterday against siena..
  we are very vulnerable on the counter attack..
  I can understand now why strama chose to play more defensive..
  - deoz
    
    i think inter would be good to play with 3 AM…but in one condition, don`t play cambiashit anymore!!!!! he makes us week in counter attack!!! slowly, lazy n just stood like an idiot in the field…
    - Fredy
      
      i rather have mudingayi play than cambiasso and gargano than guarin
    - Branavan
      
      What kind of Inter fan are you? You never insult an Inter player regardless of what, especially El Cuchu who has served Inter for so long and done so well. Shame on you.
kevinches

u all need to remember than juventus were also playing with different formations at the beginning of last season until they got their ideal formation. they were also lucky to win the league as milan slipped up
Wasim

Infuriating! Yes we won. Hoo rah. We were very poor as expected. We are playing like a small club side, no ball possession, best players on bench. Strama doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing! Should haved played Cou from start and Alvarez from bench after 2-0 up to get match fitness. I don’t get this guy!! Inter talk about the club trying to change policy with young players yet we aren’t giving these guys a chance Strama talks about ball possession but in all matches I’ve watched we only have ball possession in the middle of the pitch or in defence but nothing up top where it matters, we only ever have 1 or at most 2 guys in the box against 6 defenders???? Is this guy real, we need to play as a team so more guys can get into the box and we need players who are capable of holding onto the ball upfront in the team playing together (Cou, Alvarez, Cassano, Sneijder and Milito) as at the moment we can’t keep the ball upfront at all and are playing too many long balls up front
- n1tefury
  
  I think strama desn’t have the balls yet to play young players instead of “the big name” player. Now that sneijder’s injured, I hope cou gets more playing time.
- 1908
  
  My intervisa’s I woke up today and I kn what we should do we need falco the total striker who is a big small and average match player he’s is the answer for most of our concerns I urge all of us to send emails to our club and not rest untill he comes and watch our team performances yes one player can make a different so I say yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes come on lads twitter it Facebook it and let’s make sure our voice is heard Forza inter !!!!!
  - Tariq
    
    I dont know if that wiill work…
  - Harry Potter
    
    nuts!
dipesh

what guarin should be doing is done by gargano i think guarin should be benched, i think we should have resigned poli rather then guarin because at least he could pass, or for the same cost buy veratti, coutinho should have played, i thought we won mainly because of our confidence in away matches but still felt our players were out numbered in chievo’s half and in there penalty box are defense was descent tested frequently from distance and from free kicks we need time for the defense to gel, strama give coutinho the chance as we have bessa on the side lines who will warrant a chance and strama know why, hopefully alvarez and coutinho get more playing time and guarin gets only a handful until he proves himself
deoz

enough playing like this!!!! c`on man!!! this is INTER….one of the greatest clubs in the world. dont play like mediocer team anymore…
Malako

Nice to get those 3 points.. But I dont think thats the way we should play.. Without that luck for the first goal, then it would be a hopeless game, we are playing against Chievo and defenting like its Barca we are playing against.. The funny thing is that the goals often comes when Sneijder goes out.. I dont think selling Sneijder for a good price and buy a class creative midfielder would be a bad idea.. Miss Palacio and Ricky on the field.. Big up to Rano, Juan and Cassono for their top performance..Hope we are on the right way now.. Lets break Fiorentina next game at San siro.. FORZA INTER!!
http://www.facebook.com/sanchezpostigo Renzo Oliver Sanchez Postigo

Well Sneijder is injured, it’s time for Strama to play Coutinho on sunday game and switch his formation to 4-2-3-1 with Cassano as trequartista Coutinho and Alvarez as wingers. Milito centre forward. Zanetti RB, Ranocchia & Juan as CB, Pereira LB. Handanovic GK.
- http://www.facebook.com/sanchezpostigo Renzo Oliver Sanchez Postigo
  
  and Gargano and Cambiasso as DFM. Guarin has not been doing well and should be benched.
ahmad

we all are glad with this result, at leat it gives us calmity. but the way we play is far from being as one of greatest club in the world. what we saw was a mediocer mentality to play defensively against chievo which is btw knows more to organize and have stronger mentality. i just cant understand with this current squad. is it a curse that we always play with this way? since we are all quite reasonable, of course it’s just a fuckin mentality and tactic which mainly should come first from the coach.

the return of chivu is a good news (chivu must play well in next games), now i could propose an alternative to find balance on our defence and start a gradual approach to an attacking scheme. so we’re gonna have line up as follows to for the battle against fiorentina :
handanovic

j. zanetti rannochia chivu juan

mudingayi gargano

alvarez sneijder coutinho

cassano/palacio/milito

juan has proven to be able to provide us some safe on the back.due to sniejder’s injury, cassano could be the second striker behind milito. but when palacio is fit, he’s absolutely will be our ace as central forward. just keep dreaming guys, we’ll have this formation :)..forza inter !!!!!
- http://www.facebook.com/fez22 Fez Faisal H
  
  works on fifa :p
intetmich

Im a big inter fan, but i hear all these comments we are the biggest club in the world, but reality we not top 5 in last two years.
#4

i think we should ask definition attacking formation and rebuilding team with youngster to Strama.. still happy for the 3 points. after see Fio play against that shity Jube, weekend gonna be tough
http://www.facebook.com/lukas.jatmiko Lukas Jatmiko Sastro Setomo

Chillax.. We’re in 4th posisiton in the table and I’ve seen worst Inter
last season.. Believe me time will fix things up.. Try and error is a
step we must take to know the weak and strong point in the team and find
a way to fix and use it..
- Il Principe
  
  Exactly man, took us until mid-november last year until we had our 3rd win in the league. Yesterday’s win was ugly but the fact is we got 3 points and I believe better performances will come soon, hopefully against an in-form Viola this weekend, FORZA INTER!
Havar

Guarin is a horrible midfielder. He has no brains whatsoever and simply can not think his way through the game. Once the ball is at his feet, he is useless.

I don’t believe we paid so much for him, for comparison, Real purchased Sahin for the same amount just last year. Sahin is 100x the player Guarin is. I’d prefer Gargano to start ahead of him if we wqant to go defensive, and Alvarez/Coutinho if we want offense.
- http://www.facebook.com/fez22 Fez Faisal H
  
  players are humans and they go through these bad mental periods and suffer psychologically. a new club with a fresh team, new system and a new coach. I think us fans have duties towards those players, support them and stand alongside them, we know guaro is quality, although hes not performing lately. But criticizing him the way you are isn’t acceptable please review your thoughts about him and judging him this quick! i just hope he gets in good form soon cos ur gonna be loving him. FORZA INTER!
Chainsaw69

Grow some balls Strama!
- Kaveh
  
  Chainsaw Man can’t believe a year past and were back to having the same discussion, stramaccioni shat his pants after Siena game fuck !!!
Kaveh

3-5-1-1 and 4-4-1-1 really are the same shit, fuck this we suck camel balls no more good looking football for another season !!!!!
Jonathan

Congratulation to all inter players. No matter how we play or who play last night. All that count is that we win the game. To all who are still sucking about the formattion we use or who should have start the game I say fuck you all. If you was true fan of inter you should be happy today intead making stupid comments. Forza inter and let think about florentina now
1908

My intervisa’s I woke up today and I kn what we should do we need falco the total striker who is a big small and average match player he’s is the answer for most of our concerns I urge all of us to send emails to our club and not rest untill he comes and watch our team performances yes one player can make a different so I say yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes come on lads twitter it Facebook it and let’s make sure our voice is heard Forza inter. Michael pls lead the way and we will follow in the thousands !!
Sam

How are people going to ask for a formation with only 6 players playing a defensive role, when we can hardly defend with 7 players doing the same thing…
- HakemoAmeriuso
  
  Because the 2 DM assigned with defensive duty were failed to perform and put the 2 CB in deep defensive trouble.
ade

We miss Palacio alot. I was one of his bigeest critics.

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