Mancini's mistakes

When Mazzari was fired every Inter's supporter was happy because it could have a big meaning: the end of the 'small thinking'. 

Just 5 years ago we won the Trouble, the maximum result for a soccer team, whereas with Mazzarri we thought as a small city's team that should be happy to play in the Serie A. 

In his first interview Mancini changed our world claiming 'We must always win, we are Inter'.

Yes Mancio, we are Inter but after your first four months it's time to have some first considerations. First considerations that are just a check point because we still have to play other 10 matches and if you figured out some mistakes we could probably win all of them. 

So, which have been his mistakes?

4- The winter market

It's always difficult to guess right every purchased player on the market and on last January we found three good players as Santon, Brozovic and Shaqiri. They are good but what could say about Podolsky? We had a negotiation for Salah but Mancini chose Podolsky according to his carrer. Now, I can accept this mistake from Mazzarri but not from Mancini that spent abroad the last 7 years. He should know the physical and the mental condition of Podolsky and of every other player in Europe.

3- Ranocchia-Vidic

His first step has been to change the tactic asset of the ream. No more three defensors (or, maybe, it's better to say five with three midfielders ahead them to make a filter in order to have a defensive phase of almost six or seven players...) and the return of the four defensors: two in the center and two on the side. Amazing intention but every Inter fan has been seeing Ranocchia playing since his first match and everyone of us knew that he's utterly unfitted to play on this way. Choicing to continue with him could be fine if you didn't have another good player on the bench but we have got Vidic! Nemanja has been the captain and one of the best defensor in the last decade and Sir Alex Ferguson must thank him if he has won some trophies on last years of his career. Vidic is still a top player but Mancini has always preferred Ranocchia to him. Unvelievable.

2- Juan

If I were a teacher on a soccer school I'd use him to explain exactly what a defensor shouldn't be. Never. When he played with two other defensors his mistakes were hidden by them but with this asset he's a total disaster. It's like playing in 10, perhaps it's like playing 10 against 12. If I were the coach of the opposite team I'd give to my striker just a couple of instructions: play near him and when we are attacking, just do three or four steps behind to bring him out of his position. On this way the midfielder has just to go straight on the door with no opposition. Juan is always somewhere else but where he should be, he doesn't have the tactical intelligence to understand his position, and the strikers' movements to make him confused, and he doesn't know when he must come back quickly once he's somewhere else. During these four months journalists used to accuse the whole defense but every goal was simply a mistakes of him. It's been a suicide to play with him in the most important matches as the ones against Wolfsburg or Naples. It's not been a surprise to see him playing better as a fullback against Sampdoria.

1- Too many modules

He has always said that he wants to play with the 4-2-3-1. Ok, so why has it turned to the 4-3-2-1 and the 4-3-3 after the first bad results? If he wants to play with the 4-2-3-1 why has he bought Shaqiri that isn't a wide and Brozovic thant can't play in one of the two positions in front of the defense? With these two he can only play with three midfielders (4-3-1-2 or 4-3-2-1 or 4-3-3) but this isn't the tactic he wants: he wants to play with the 4-2-3-1. Anyway, if he had continued playing with the 4-2-3-1 with Guarin and Medel we could have played some bad games and we could have lost some matches but we also culd have played some good games and Guarin would be improved a lot in that position. Furthermore, he'd be able to try Brozovic near Medel or the couple Brozovic-Guarin. The results? Guarin is always the same player that alternate good and bad matches and Brozovic and Shaqiri aren't learning and practicing their future positions. So, where is the training for the future?

Anyway, he has showed up his skills on his career and I hope this is just the first step of a new Inter. I still remember his first Inter with Veron wing on a strange 4-4-2. That team tied a lot of matches but ending up to be the base of our next victories on the second five years of the last decade. Let's work him with no pressure. I'm sure, it'll be the same.

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