Lecce at Inter
By: Johonna | September 23rd, 2008This is Johonna’s SO again–she’s still out town.
Inter is hosting Lecce, new to the Serie A this season. Without knowing much at Lecce, I’m expecting another Inter victory.
Luckily Johonna’s recent Calcio Italia has review of the three new teams (Chievo & Bologna). The coach that lead the Gialorossi to promotion was Guiseppe Papadopulo. Despite his good work for Lecce last season, the board gave him the boot. Calcio Italia says he was replaced by Mario Beretta because “his only fault was to not be ‘cool’ enough for a new entry into the top flight.” Sounds like the old coach just wasn’t media friendly enough.
Lecce Striker Simone Tiribocchi
Lecce’s star is striker Simone Tiribocchi. He had mixed results at his previous club, Chievo. He scored 19 goals last season. He had successful partnership with Elvis Abbruscato (now at Torino).
Channel 4’s web page has this lineup:
Inter (probable): Julio Cesar; Maicon, Cordoba, Materazzi, Chivu; Vieira, Cambiasso, Zanetti; Mancini, Adriano, Balotelli
Lecce (probable): Benussi; Polenghi, Stendardo, Diamoutene, Antunes; Giacomazzi, Zanchetta, Ariatti; Caserta; Cacia, Tiribocchi
Lecce started the season with no losses until losing to Bologna 1-0 at the Stadio Dall’Ara. The team was hit with the tragic death of one of their coaching staff, Antonio De Giorgio was struck by lightning during a training session. Spooky.
By all accounts they are scrappy team and lucky to be in Serie A. Let’s hope their just another wrung in the scudetto ladder.
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Johonna, pride is one of the seven deadly sins.
Take the three points. Three more than my Viola got tonight.
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By the way, if you can get a chance, go to the Inter website and see how classy they are celebrating Zanetti’s 600th game as an Inter player! What a player.
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2 more than Juve got tonight, goddamn.
At home against Catania, you guys got lucky as hell and walked away with 3 points. At home against Catania…we were unbelievably unlucky. Can we get a little of whatever is in the water there?
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Ursus, I like to think of it as poitive thinking.
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Cruz saved ur asses again.
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Well… I have still yet to see highlights of this match but I have officially secured Tickets to the Derby and have a smile on my face from ear.
Hopefully we can get 3 more points Sunday. I am expecting a decent, tactical match!
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MAD is making a lot of sense here. Particularly with regard to the quality of Mourinho’s substitutions.
We weren’t there last night (school night, and ursus minor has a bit of a cold), but from what we saw on television, Inter would not have won this match with Mancio on the bench.
It’s Mou’s 100th straight home match without a loss, btw.
And a fitting result for the 600th match of the classiest man in football.
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Speaking of Zanetti, the entire text of his post match press conference is on the Italian version of the club website (along with an interesting collection of “historic” armbands that he brought along):
http://www.inter.it/aas/news/reader?N=42399&L=it
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I was scanning Channel4 for anything interesting and I found this nugget. I thought it an interesting piece of data and wondered what everyone thought, especially considering that at one point this young season we didn’t have enough central defenders.
“Footballers are dropping like flies, according to data released by UEFA yesterday. A squad of 25 players suffers an average of 45 injuries a season. So Juventus, who have already lost Gigi Buffon and David Trezeguet to treatment room, better brace themselves for more pain. The results in 2008-09 may be unpredictable, but the number of goals sure isn’t. The last three rounds have seen 22 goals in each of them, that’s an average of 2.2 goals per game. Not bad.”
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Bah, we’ve already missed C. Zanetti, Zebina, Marchionni, ADP, Camo, Andrade, Chiellini, Buffon, and Trezeguet due to injury. Does that mean we’re set for a while?
Inter’s injury list is somewhat like that as well, right?
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Yep. Until recently we had Cambiasso, our best midfielder, playing center defense because every defender we had was injured and we had to play him out of position.
At this point every team has a bunch of players sitting out that could mean the difference of winning and losing.
That’s why I think Juve was smart this off season. They tried to build up the back end of their roster as cheaply as possible so that with the Championship, Coppa, Champions League, etc. they would have players on the field who had some quality.
Inter is deep, but the back end is built on age. I would like to see a younger “b” group that can grow into the starting positions, and maybe we won’t have to pay 50 mil in transfer fee every summer.
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What about Santon and Mei? Isn’t that what they are for? and Max and Chivu are like 26 or 27 aren’t they?
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At the moment, Santon and Mei are more “for” meeting the always-expanding requirements for the number of “home grown” players on Champions League rosters than anything else, but they have potential to become something more than that.
But you are right in that the situation is not quite as bad as MAD makes out. Maxwell, Maicon and Burdisso are all 27, Chivu will be 28 next month and Rivas is only 25.
The creakier part of the team is midfield and on the wings, which is why one hopes that Muntari (24), Quaresma (25, today) and Mancini (28) build on their promising starts and that Jimenez (24) eventually comes good.
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I’ll concede that the age of the team is not as bad as I made it out to be. I think that most of our starters are in their physical prime and I am very happy about that.
But I was talking about the bench and our potential growth. I just made a quick scan of the backup players and 7 are over 31 years old.
2 Forwards, 3 midfielders and our 2 backup goalkeepers– neither of which is younger than 36, although Toldo is still quite good.
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… and what the hell did they do to the UEFA Cup? …er I mean the UEFA Europa League?
Remember when being invited to a Cup tournament in Europe meant something?
Anyone else get the feeling that smallish Leagues in Eastern Europe are holding Platini’s feet to the fire? Like he owes them money or something. I don’t pretend to understand this stuff, but it really smells like an american politician getting pork for their state.
http://www.uefa.com/uefa/keytopics/kind=64/newsid=754085.html?cid=rssfeed&att=index
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This UEFA Europa League business is pretty bizarre…but hopefully we won’t have to deal with that competition anytime soon!
Moving to the derby, I must admit that even though he’s in pretty poor form I would much rather play Milan without Shevchenko. The guy just loves playing against us.
It should be a tight game. If we can control Kaka, I think we should be fine. Their defense without Nesta looks shaky and if Zlatan et al have a good game, we should get 3 points.
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I think it’s high time for the Uefa cup to get a change, and it’s an improvement.
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The branding aspects of the “Europa League” are annoyingly stupdid, and MAD is right about the nature of the political pressure that led to their adoption (though I find the 24 team Euros much worse).
That said, ale is right in that the rationalisation of the currently ridiculous group stages and the central marketing of television rights (which should mean that buying ppv cards for porn channels will no longer be the only way to see some of the matches) are steps forward.
As long as the Champions League continues to have 4 representatives from each of the major leagues, the UEFA Cup will never regain its past lustre, but it can be a better competition than it is right now.
Figo has broken a bone in his foot and will be out for three weeks; Maxwell is also doubtful for the Derby.
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Johonna any chance of having a preview up before the game??
Just saw the squad…Maxwell is out.
Do you folks think Adri will start again? I missed the Torino game and he certainly wasn’t stellar vs Lecce. I would like to see a Quaresma/Zlatan/Mancini, but Adri seems to have a special place in Mourinho’s heart!
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Juve just dropped some more points…
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You know I thought about it overnight and I could be wrong about the Europa League. I am just afraid that it turns out to be like the College Basketball thing where it’s not necessarily the best team, it’s the one that can take a zillion game tournament and survive.
On the other hand, more TV and teams means more cash to participants… I think. Which would make it more attractive to play for, thus make teams try harder to attain in a league, hopefully making the league more competitive. So maybe it could be a good thing.
Kabir, we need to see if we can take advantage of Juve dropping points these two matches in a row. Any advantage we can cling to this early means that we will be better off later.
We need a result tomorrow. No points would be very bad for business league standing-wise and morale, even this early. We have an important Champions League Match on tuesday, I think that we need to be up for as well.
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The Tinkerman still can’t leave Mourinho alone, even when Mourinho has said nothing for a week. And as usual, Mourinho puts Ranieri in his place. This from Fox:
“Ranieri suggested that the head coach should be responsible for talking with the media “out of respect for the fans and sportsmen in all of Italy.”
“Do you think it’s a lack of respect when for three months, a coach studies Italian four or five hours per day so when he arrives for the first time in a new country he can speak with fans and journalists in their language?” Mourinho responded.
“After five years in England, Ranieri still had trouble saying ‘good afternoon’ and ‘good morning.”‘
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“At the age of 70, it takes a while to learn…”
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Another Mourinho riposte to another Ranieri lunge from this summer, if I am not mistaken.
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I dont give a rip what Ranieri and Mou say to/about each other – just so long as we beat Juve when the time comes.
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