Winning at the San Siro was wonderful and our defeat in Camp Nou has to be looked in a different way on what could've happened.
The atmosphere for the encounter was a lot difficult. Barca fans showed us many reasons to hate them. And not only us Nerazurri but every other supporter of any other team. The fans tried to keep our players waken and assaulted our manager's car. That not only showed how emotional disturbed they are but that they were worried. Moreover, showed how big it was to play the finals in Madrid. It wasn't about winning the Champions League but playing the finals in Madrid. Nevertheless this wasn't reason enough to treat our players the way they did. My guess is: nobody will respect barca fans anymore. It's sad that the images that are gonna travel the world is only the beatiful party the fans made for barca before the kick off. It should be shown the horns and fireworks that woke up our president, the devastated car, the water botles thrown in our players, the booing to our players. and so on. They were bad loosers.
This is one aspect. The other is that Barcelona showed great character fighting the whole game. But also showed what has been showing since last season: lack of tactical options. Barcelona does play wonderful football and must be respected for it. It's beautiful to watch them play but after a season it does get boring and the only thing you want to see is what messi can do. Pep Guardiola is not a good manager. He was unable to put on a different barca formation. Of course barca's squad doesn't help. A lot of those players can't do what the starting XI does. There's no one to play the Ibrahimovic role, for example. Their defense is poor. But the main point is that Pep is not a good manager. Very limited.
That being said lets see what happened in Camp Nou. Inter outclassed Barcelona again. That's the short version. An uninformed spectator may think that Barcelona was better than Inter during the game. But the truth is that Inter was better in his game. At the beginning of the game Inter was still feeling the game. Much like what happend in Milan. After 20 minutes Inter started playing. It's important to remember now that we weren't in our best formation without Pandev. He's far from the quality of Milito and Eto'o but he's really helpfull when it comes to tactics. He also helps defensively, And that's the reason why we couldn't play a 4-3-3 formation with Balotelli. Even so, we started to play offensively against barca and we were creating some chances. After only 10 minutes of football for Inter Motta was sent out. That was terrible for us. The barca fans were starting to get fed up and seeing Milan all over again. When Motta was sent out they began to help the team again. Yet we managed to hold the 0-0 score.
Before continue with the final part of the game it must be said that Mourinho is not crazy or stupid. Of course we went there to defend. We had a big advantage and we needed to defend that. And let me add some information: Pandev out, Sneijder injuried, Motta out, 10 man. What people expected from inter. To go on a suicide quest of attacking barca? We did what we do best: defend. To defend is also an art. And our atacking system begins in our defense. Samuel's passing is increadibly better. Lucio's pass everybody new was good. Motta has good passing and is creative. Our attacking system and, much obviously, counter-attack system begins on defense. I don't think I have to talk about maicon and Il capitano, do I? We do have the best defensive system in the world. And i'm sorry Europe but it's South American.
The second part of the game was much like the first part. Barca attacking and Inter defending. We only had problems when mourinho decided to change our lines. We were defending with two lines 4-5-0 and then we started to do 5-4-0 lines. By doing this we gave barca a lot of space, specially Xavi and Messi and that was how they scored. I do think Piquet was offside but it was a hard call much like the one for us on the Milito goal. Despite this error Inter was phenomenal. Barca did not play the whole game.
Stoping Messi and Xavi was hard but we did it. And we did it with class. Not only we conceeded only two goals as we scored three against barca, something that people usually thought to be impossible: score more goals than barca.
At the beginning of the season I have to admit that I wasn't confident for Champions League. And it was for obvious reasons. The first and more important is that half the team was new and we were beginning to play in a different style. Sneijder, Eto'o, Milito, Motta, Lucio. 5 new players. Even our Scudetto was in danger with this. Everything was new and it was just Mourinho's second season with us. And remember we don't have the money Chelsea has. The other important reason is that we had only a few world class players. Cesar is the best keeper in the world and so is Maicon in his position. Eto'o is there too for scoring in two different Champions League finals. But who else? Milito? What has he done in european cups? Being a good goal scorer in one season doesn't make him a good player. Motta had his years and we couldn't know if he could do it again. Lucio was still a star. But in europe people didn't believe him. He got sacked from his former club. It's said that at the beginning of the season Mourinho said that he could win the scudetto with this team but the Champions League would be a disaster. I thought also.
And when Pandev came something else happened. And i'm gonna tell you what happened. He did what we expected Balotelli to do. And now our team is completed. I know i'm one of his biggest critics and still am. But he brought a lot tactically for the team. Something Balotelli never could and apparently will never bring.
The game against Chelsea showed that we were ready to be taken seriously in European Competitions. The game against Barca showed we're ready to be champions. But Chelsea did the same thing years ago. And they didn't win the Champions. We need to go there and make it happen. It's not won. The win was wonderful and we should be celebrating today. But tomorrow is time to work for Serie A title.
Hello Europe. My name is Internazionale Milano.
This is one aspect. The other is that Barcelona showed great character fighting the whole game. But also showed what has been showing since last season: lack of tactical options. Barcelona does play wonderful football and must be respected for it. It's beautiful to watch them play but after a season it does get boring and the only thing you want to see is what messi can do. Pep Guardiola is not a good manager. He was unable to put on a different barca formation. Of course barca's squad doesn't help. A lot of those players can't do what the starting XI does. There's no one to play the Ibrahimovic role, for example. Their defense is poor. But the main point is that Pep is not a good manager. Very limited.
That being said lets see what happened in Camp Nou. Inter outclassed Barcelona again. That's the short version. An uninformed spectator may think that Barcelona was better than Inter during the game. But the truth is that Inter was better in his game. At the beginning of the game Inter was still feeling the game. Much like what happend in Milan. After 20 minutes Inter started playing. It's important to remember now that we weren't in our best formation without Pandev. He's far from the quality of Milito and Eto'o but he's really helpfull when it comes to tactics. He also helps defensively, And that's the reason why we couldn't play a 4-3-3 formation with Balotelli. Even so, we started to play offensively against barca and we were creating some chances. After only 10 minutes of football for Inter Motta was sent out. That was terrible for us. The barca fans were starting to get fed up and seeing Milan all over again. When Motta was sent out they began to help the team again. Yet we managed to hold the 0-0 score.
Before continue with the final part of the game it must be said that Mourinho is not crazy or stupid. Of course we went there to defend. We had a big advantage and we needed to defend that. And let me add some information: Pandev out, Sneijder injuried, Motta out, 10 man. What people expected from inter. To go on a suicide quest of attacking barca? We did what we do best: defend. To defend is also an art. And our atacking system begins in our defense. Samuel's passing is increadibly better. Lucio's pass everybody new was good. Motta has good passing and is creative. Our attacking system and, much obviously, counter-attack system begins on defense. I don't think I have to talk about maicon and Il capitano, do I? We do have the best defensive system in the world. And i'm sorry Europe but it's South American.
The second part of the game was much like the first part. Barca attacking and Inter defending. We only had problems when mourinho decided to change our lines. We were defending with two lines 4-5-0 and then we started to do 5-4-0 lines. By doing this we gave barca a lot of space, specially Xavi and Messi and that was how they scored. I do think Piquet was offside but it was a hard call much like the one for us on the Milito goal. Despite this error Inter was phenomenal. Barca did not play the whole game.
Stoping Messi and Xavi was hard but we did it. And we did it with class. Not only we conceeded only two goals as we scored three against barca, something that people usually thought to be impossible: score more goals than barca.
At the beginning of the season I have to admit that I wasn't confident for Champions League. And it was for obvious reasons. The first and more important is that half the team was new and we were beginning to play in a different style. Sneijder, Eto'o, Milito, Motta, Lucio. 5 new players. Even our Scudetto was in danger with this. Everything was new and it was just Mourinho's second season with us. And remember we don't have the money Chelsea has. The other important reason is that we had only a few world class players. Cesar is the best keeper in the world and so is Maicon in his position. Eto'o is there too for scoring in two different Champions League finals. But who else? Milito? What has he done in european cups? Being a good goal scorer in one season doesn't make him a good player. Motta had his years and we couldn't know if he could do it again. Lucio was still a star. But in europe people didn't believe him. He got sacked from his former club. It's said that at the beginning of the season Mourinho said that he could win the scudetto with this team but the Champions League would be a disaster. I thought also.
And when Pandev came something else happened. And i'm gonna tell you what happened. He did what we expected Balotelli to do. And now our team is completed. I know i'm one of his biggest critics and still am. But he brought a lot tactically for the team. Something Balotelli never could and apparently will never bring.
The game against Chelsea showed that we were ready to be taken seriously in European Competitions. The game against Barca showed we're ready to be champions. But Chelsea did the same thing years ago. And they didn't win the Champions. We need to go there and make it happen. It's not won. The win was wonderful and we should be celebrating today. But tomorrow is time to work for Serie A title.
Hello Europe. My name is Internazionale Milano.
