Why I am not worried. Moreover, why I think we are getting better

There is a strange vibe around our team along this summer. It looks like we are a confusing team, with no strategy, with a confused manager on the bench. The two derbies lost against Milan have brough the feeling we are far away from a good point. Is that true? My opinion is no, at all.
• MATCHES: Let's take a look of our pre-season matches.
Bayern Monaco, 0-1. We have played a good defensive match with a couple of good chance until we have played with out best players. Bayern scored the goal only when we changed the whole team (and with a positioning mistake by Juan).
Milan, 0-1. We have played with a team full of youngsters for 70' and Milan has never been really dangerous. Then it scored with an amazing goal (but a bit fortunate) by Mexes in a corner action. With out best players (for only 20') we didn't score, but we played much better than Milan.
Real Madrid, 0-3. It's been our best match for 20' playing at the same level with the Real, having some chances to score a goal, but then Cristiano Ronaldo and friends scored the first goal and the match changed at all.
Galatasaray, 0-1. Icardi, Palacio, Hernanes and others have had the chance to score a goal against a team that it's champion in its country. I guess it has been a good match by Inter, when only a goal has missed.
Bilbao, 2-0. We have seen a very good Inter, with an outstanding impact by Jovetic, at his debut with our shirt. I think this is the real Inter, even though there weren't some players that are going to arise our level.
Tim cup. Milan, 1-2. We started with a really strange tactical set by Mancini and apparently it was really strange, but not completely (after I'm going to explain it). For 30' we haven't managed to figure out the situation and Milan was completely full in control of the match. Afterwards, Mancini changed Brozovic for Hernanes changing the set up as well and everything has changed. The Brozovic goal, the second Brozovic chance by Brozovic saved on the line by Romagnoli, the goal scored by Nagatomo, the Kovacic chance in only 15'. Playing only 15' we could score 2 goals against.
Tim cup. Sassuolo, 0-1. We haven't played a good match, but it wasn't the real Inter. Schelotto, Manaj, Delgado aren't our best players and it's impossible to evaluate this match.

And now, let's go to see our rivals preseason matches:
JUVENTUS:
Dortmund, 0-2.
Lechia, 2-1
Marsiglia, 0-2
Lazio, 2-0
LAZIO:
Auronzo, 14-0
Cadore, 9-1
Vicenza, 0-1
Anderlecht, 1-3
Sigma, 2-3
Mainz, 0-3
Juve, 0-2
MILAN:
Alcione, 5-1
Legnano, 5-1
Lione, 1-2
Inter, 1-0
Real, 0-0
Bayern, 0-3
Tottenham, 0-1
Tim, Inter, 2-1
Tim, Sassuolo, 1-1
NAPOLI
Anaune, 8-0
Ferlapi Salò, 5-2
Cittadella, 5-1
Nizza, 2-3
Porto, 0-0
ROMA:
Gyirmot, 1-2
Real Madrid, 0-0
Manchester City, 2-2
Lisbona, 0-2
Barcellona, 0-3
Valencia, 3-1

I don't see 7-0 against big teams by our rivals. I see that each team is trying to do its best to find the right set up asap.
• TACTICAL SET UP: Mancini has always said that he wants to play with different systems. Getting the defense with 4 players we can have these modules:
4-4-2: we don't have any wings, so has tried a module with two attacking midfielders on the sides. During the TIM cup, Kovacic and Hernanes shouldn't play as common wings but they should start from the side for going to the center. If you remember the first Mancini did the same with Emre and Veron. In the 2004, we played with this team:
Zanetti-Burdisso-Materazzi-Favalli
Veron-Cambiasso-Davids-Emre (Stankovic)
Neither Emre and Veron were wings but they started from those positions to go to the center and becoming dangerous with their fantasy. So, the idea wasn't bad, the problem is that unfortunately both Kovacic and Hernanes aren't good players, currently they are half players and it's not possible to ask them to play as Veron or Emre/Stankovic. Anyway, I guess we'll see again this system, but only when we will have Perisic on a side and a Guarin/Brozovic/Kovacic on the other side.
4-3-1-2: I don't think Mancini likes this system but it could be the best to support an offensive set up. Kondogbia and Medel on the side and Kovacic in the middle could be a solution, but not only because we also have players like Brozovic, Guarin, Gnoukoury, Hernanes that can play in these position. These players could also play as attacking midfielder, especially Kovacic that is still searching his best position (I hope it is ahead of the defense).
4-2-3-1: It's the module Mancini prefers, and I think it's the best one, because it becomes a 4-5-1 on the defensive phase and a 4-3-3 in the attack one. Salah would have been the better to play with Perisic and Icardi, but he's gone to Rome and now we have Jovetic that is not a wing, but he could play there.

At last, I guess we haven't seen the full potential of players like Brozovic and Kovacic and I guess that over the next season we will see the explosion of these two players, especially by Brozovic that could really become our new Stankovic. Waiting for the physical improvement by Gnoukoury (this is why Mancini wants an elderly in that position), I think we have the right players to do a good season.
We only need a new left wide back (it's not possible to see Juan over there) and an attacker like Perisic, one that cold play in attack and on the side, one like David Silva, or Pedro, or Eto'o. We need an attacker like this.

I believe in the Inter that Mancini is jellying day after day. I'm trustful. It's only August, and I want to remind you that last October people wanted to sack Pioli as Lazio's manager because of an horrible start in the season: he has arrived on the third position. So, let's give the right time to Mancini and to this Inter, we have all the prerequisite to do an amazing season.

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