He's been out for a while, he's usually impeccable defensively imo

VB yellow. He better watch it

The spirit of Ambrosini seems to have possessed Bommel. If he maintains with his fouling, he'll see red soon.

Robinho's fittness is coming back GREAT pace

He usually settles down after he gets the first yellow. Practically happens every game

We need to kill them off, we're just not stable defensively atm

Bommel has been awful. Ruined a few attacks while made the defensive section unstable and static. Thing is, Ambrosini at this point wouldn't do any better.

VB hasn't been his usual self all season imo. Having said that, he's still miles ahead of Ambro even on his worst of days.

He usually settles down with the lunging fouls after he get a yellow, and that's nothing new though. I'm expecting a better second half from him

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"cross-header goal". it's one of the most common ways of scoring goals in football for god's sake!

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Good game overall save for a few slips on our side. and Binho is not involved in the action enough. Zlatan clearly doesn't have his dribbling boots on, he should quit trying and concentrate on scoring more goals.

Call it what you want, but really Silva, MvB, Robinho and Ibra haven't been the players they were last year. Perhaps even add Nesta to the list, depending on who's compiling it. There has to be some reasoning behind it. Other players, and in particular new signings are the ones that are running the show up till now.

Silva isn't the player he was last season but he's still great. last season he was phenomenal. so I'm not worried about him. but I AM worried about Zlatan losing motivation/enthusiasm little by little. not talking about tonight...

As usual, you got me wrong. The sole attack was very good, but we're not playing in the right speed and with the right rhythm.

Robinho has to stop diving at once. I can't watch it any more.

We're inviting them onto us. This can't end well for us if we keep playing this way

Why is he bringing on Urby FFS???

Urby for Boateng, terrible change

Boateng sent off for some reason

OMG!! Miracle from Abbiati!!

WTF are they doing though

IBRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@ Fillipo

Sorry, I thought there was a slightly negative tone in your post.


He was injured. you wanted Ambrosini?

4 headers! Astonishing. Cracking away win this looks like.

All we need now is for Inter to beat Juve and that would be a very good night's work.

Aqui qith another assist

Probably top assist man in the league now along with Antonio

Because Boateng couldn't continue, he was limping. Good change, Urby is good so far.

Another Aqu to Ibra goal Finally a short corner paid off

Bring Cassano on, Ubry is worrying me these days. Although he's proved me wrong so far and is very solid

Apparently we haven't won there since 2004/05 or so... been a long while.

3 striker while you under pressure is not needed. Plus, Robi needed a sub as well, wasn't playing well.

Robinho would have dropped into midfield, he has a better workrate then Urby if we want to get into the technicality of it...

Nocerino what a super miss just now. Well after that hat trick from him...

Bohan goal

Where's the defence again??

Nesta with the silly defending now. He totally switched off

That's 14 goals now that we've conceeded

But Robinho wasn't playing well. I would rather to bring a fresh player in.

The goal is Nesta's mistake.

We all switched off....terrible lack of concentration by Nocerino

Allegri sent off.

We conceded only, what, 8 goals last season? what's happened?

Few. FT

What a mess up there at the end. Abbiati has got to get his head together! What a fumble there again! He's having one in every game this season.

The defending simply has to get better, we're simply not going to do anything if we keep conceeding goals at this rate.

For the chance? Yeah it was a terrible miss. But Nesta trying a half heartedtackle as if feeling he doesn't need to do his all since we're leading by 2. This is the attitude that has to be removed at once. Thiago and Nesta were impeccable all game imo, Nesta ruined a perfect performance only due to a lapse in concentration, something that I personally don't tolerate, not from him.

Say what you guys like but we're still winning!

Add to that Napoli losing/lost to Catania and this seems a very good night indeed.

Now, I rarely support Inter, but that would be another great result for us.

To his credit, Abbiati saved two one-on-ones.

Very important win, not easy to beat them away. Top of the table right now

Our defense is the issue we gotta fixed up. We are scoring enough, but very instable defensively.

Well, one can also say that Thiago wasn't completely innocent.

I always support the underdogs so... forza Inter tonight!

Is this were your heart ventures in the absence of our lovable duck... Zed, keep it together!

You know why? It's not settled. While Nesta and Silva is our first choice partnership, both have missed a combined total of 3 domestic matches. That's not abysmal, but when you look at full back, and particularly left back, 3 players cycle for that slot. RB is kinda the only position where one player has been solid and consistently played.

Silva and Abate are the 2 almost ever presents. The other slots see various guys like Antonini, Bonera, Mexes, Zambrotta, Taiwo, and Nesta.

Add to that Abbiati's Jekyll and Hyde season and it's not hard to see why we're conceding.

The good thing, like you say, is we're scoring. We have riches up front and players that good will get you goals.

I can't find it in me to support inter.

Regardless the game's result, I can see myself finding reasons to be both happy and upset. Oh well...

@ Danny yes, we're still winning, and I agree with almost everything, but the problems in defence are very worrying for me, and yes we're scoring a lot, but sometimes, no matter how great the guys upfront are, you still can't get a break through. That's why it's so important to keep a clean sheet, or if you're going to conceed, at least keep it to just one goal. Last season we won the league by doing this. Sometimes we scored a lot, sometimes we managed to get by with a single goal and still got 3 points because we didn't conceed. We aren't going to score 3 or 4 goals in every game.

There's still time to fix this, last season we had similar problems during the first half of the season, we were conceeding a lot through counter attacks and we managed to eliminate that from our game. Our defence was near perfect last season from January onwards. A big part of that was the stability of the back 4 plus the shield VB made in front of them, and this season VB, Thiago and Nesta have simply not been at their best while we have issues with the LB.

Like I said, we still have time to fix it. Next internation break Allegri really needs to focus on defensive drills, defending on set-pieces and make the players understand that lapses in concentration won't be tolerated.

I totally hear you and that is why I'm hoping for a 0-0 tonight

Oh and I'm totally with Inter tonight. We can close Saturday at the top of the table if Inter win.

It doesn't matter how much work you do on set pieces, and understanding, and coherent man marking etc, if you don't have a settled defence it makes no difference. The bedrock of any team is its defence (unless you're Barca of course) and success is based on having a settled back 4 who are completely familiar with each other.

Until Allegri settles on a back 4 and persists with the same players (bar injury of course) we'll keep conceding goals. But it really isn't worrying me given how many we're scoring at the other end. No reason to believe the goals will dry up any time soon. Plus we've got a fresh Pato ready to return and he'll be gagging for goals when he's fit.

No panic just yet for me

We'd be second on goal difference though.

Well, Juve score.

I would have been happy with that as it mean't they could go into the bottom three Here's hoping