Inter Kairat: Chivu on Lautaro & Positive Football

Cristian Chivu’s recipe is simple: smile. He said it in the press room before the Kairat and reiterated it after the difficult success at San Siro: “This was a lesson for us. We should have done better than this.” When asked by his ex-teammate Maicon, who won the treble with him, Chivu confessed that he had seen an Inter-Rubin Kazan 2-0 in the 2009-10 season: “Yes, we weren’t able to close it out first. They always stayed in the game and put us in difficulty. We often tried a 3-man construction with the goalkeeper, we struggled to express what we had prepared. I put my face to it, they know it because they are mature and intelligent guys.”

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Chivu continues: “Now I’m the coach and the responsibilities are mine, I could have done better. Agreement with Lautaro? A player will never allow himself to come to me and ask me to play. I had the idea. For a striker, to get him out of a similar problem, you have to let him play. I’m happier with the play he made in the corner to go and close a cross, so to speak. This is the right spirit for us. Football is also happiness, we don’t have to overload ourselves or see ghosts that don’t suit us. I’m Lautaro is important as are many others, and it’s important to smile, you have to give your best.”