Cristian Chivu

It's a criticism of the Inter's directors who put Inter in this position.

It's not Chivu's fault that he lacks experience.

It's Marotta's fault for Inter having to appoint a coach without experience.

Chivu has done the best he could do last season.

He won the double.

Yes, he has a fantastic squad, but he managed to win a domestic double, something Inter have not done very many times.

But it doesn't change the fact that he's not tactically leveled to be at a club of Inter stature who have, has been in two Champions League finals and is looking to continue to try to compete in the Champions League.

That's just, that's just a fact.

Into Milan.

Three-time European champions include the 2010 treble under Mourinho, Inter won Serie A again under Christian Chivu, who's played in that team.

Lautaro Martinez is still the leader, and this remains one of those clubs nobody wants over two legs.

Manchester City, cheating bastards.

I mean, as I said, in eight, eight comp- eight matches this season in all comps, um, Inter have conceded 14 goals, eight in the Serie A and six, uh, in, in, in, in the Champions League.

And if we look at Chri- Cristian Chivu's complete chronological order since taking over, he's been the coach of Inter in 12 matches in the s- in, in the Champions League.

Five won, seven loss, seven lost, no, no goal, no matches drawn, scored 21 goals, conceded 18.

Now, particularly interesting is that those seven losses Have all come in the last eight games.

Grainger, for the ones who get it done.

Inter Milan delivered a sensational display of high-octane pressing and clinical finishing at the San Siro, blowing away Parma 3-0 with an unstoppable three-goal blitz inside the opening 31 minutes.

Christian Chivuside took complete command of the Serie A encounter from the opening whistle, suffocating the visitors' build-up play and ruining Alberto Gilardino's debut in the opposing dugout to send the Nerazzurri provisionally top of the league table.

The evening exploded into action in the 13th minute when Inter's relentless high press yielded instant results.

Parma midfielder Mandela Keita was caught...

You've got enough f- first team players there to hobble some sort of a starting lineup, you know, against Parma, taking into consideration all the returning, um, internationals as well.

So Kiva's probably got a decent number of players to play with, so I guess we shouldn't really be lowering our expectations or expecting too much of a, of a trap game.

But our defense certainly needs to improve, and realistically, we haven't really had much time for Kiva to workshop it with the guys available, right? So, uh, I also do expect us to concede a goal, unfortunately.

So I'm gonna go with, uh, an entertaining 3-2 game here.

I'll give goals to...

He was playing in second division.

And if it was not for Christian Kivu, who was his youth coach, who knew him since he's 13 years old, Inter probably would not have given him a chance.

They would have gone out and spent big money on another player.

Pio Sposito, the growth of him.

One, for the fact that he's an incredible young talent and also the Italy factor.

They look at him as kind of the the shooter number nine something they've really lacked across recent years I really want to see him kick on this season and establish himself as a genuine guaranteed starter for Inter Milan up front obviously Chivu again plays a 3-5-2 formation with two strikers so the option is Lautaro Martinez is one of those players so Esposito is really battling Marcus Turam to be his partner they've got Bonnie as well but I think he's probably the fourth choice at the moment yeah he started the season well I think it was Monza first game of the season he scored and got an assist but the weekend they played Churam up front with Martinez against Roma so the real battle for him is to kind of push and become a genuine starter but you know, when they're in Serie A, when they're in Champions League, he's going to get loads of game time this season.

So, I think for him, this is the season where he really has to break through and, you know, put up, you know, 20 goals in all, or 15, 20 goals in all competitions and, like, this is him finally arriving in the seniors team.

Yeah, when you take a look through Inter Berlin's kind of transfer history over the last three or four years, they spent an astonishing amount of money.

Mm.

Cristian Kivu, the Inter coach, afterwards was saying, um, "I'm not gonna tell you what was said in the dressing room.

Don't ask me what was said in the dressing room at halftime." So everyone was then asking him.

He said, "I'm not gonna tell you.

So it's interesting, definitely.

But at the very top of the tree, two big dogs, Roma under Gasparini and Inter under Chivu.

First against second, Stadio Olimpico, Pressbox, Rob and Sandra Gilbert.

Okay, Willem, thanks for that, mate.