Roberto Mancini’s men had a difficult evening against Wolfsburg in Volkswagen Arena where they lost 3-1 in the first leg of round of 16 in Europa League. The Inter coach spoke to the media after the hard defeat:
After have started the match in a positive way, what happened?
“We started well then we suffered when the started to grow in to the game and gave away three goals. We have to be more careful and then there were some misstakes by Carrizo. The game started well to bad for all the errors we made. Their goals were all given away from us”.
The change of formation had a negative impact on the squad?
“As soon as we changed formation we made the misstake that led to 2-1 but already in the first half after our leading goal we started to loose the grip of the match. At the second half I had to change something because they were very strong on the wings”.
Can you see a comeback in the return?
“It was clear that it would be difficult, we shouldn’t leave so much space for their advantage. We can’t commit so many mistakes or loose the ball, they are strong on counterattacks. The goals is possible to do but we have to be more solid, that’s the most crucial part”.
When you coached Galatasaray in Turkey your defense made misstakes just like Inter. According to you is the defense lacking quality or form?
“The misstakes continues, but with experience hopefully it’s getting less and less errors. We have improved and the team must try not to suffer so much. We have to do just that. The guys have improved a lot but unfortunately they are still doing technical errors”.
FcIN: In the beginning of the first half Inter created dangerous chances on Wolfsburg: There are no regret of not having taking advantage of their misstakes when you played as best?
“We started the game very well and we should have scored a second goal but it wasn’t possible, I said this earlier: We started to play defensively way to early and we left to much space for Wolfsburg”.
FcIN: What message would you like to send to Carrizo, considering his ‘delicate’ role as a goalkeeper?
“A goalkeeper can make technical errors just as other players does them, The defenders also made errors they passed the ball to the wrong foot of a keeper instead of playing it up front. The goalkeeper isn’t a player the defenders must have the courage to play ahead”.
If you could go back in time, would you still play Carrizo?
“He has always played in Europa League and he has done well. It isn’t his fault that we lost. Mistakes can happen to anyone. A punishable goal? We had the ball and lost it, we played badly, A conceded goal you can take but not if you have giving it away. That is absolutely not acceptable”.
Source: fcinternews.it
