Inter, Roma seek quick fix

MILAN – Unhappy coaches Jose Mourinho and Luciano Spalletti will make changes for tomorrow’s Serie A matches after Inter Milan’s poor home form continued at the weekend and AS Roma suffered another crushing defeat.

Mourinho’s Inter, joint leaders with Udinese and Napoli, travel to in-form Fiorentina (19h30 GMT) having drawn 0-0 with Genoa on Sunday in another dull display in Milan. The champions have no trouble ripping teams apart away from home but they have struggled to find creativity at the San Siro, with Mourinho especially angry with a lack of width on Sunday.”My players on the field do what I say,” the Portuguese told reporters.”Probably someone doesn’t know me well yet.Who knows maybe I’ll take it into account when I call up players for Wednesday.”Media reports said his anger was directed at Mario Balotelli, Julio Cruz and Victor Obinna, who came on in the second half.Inter will come up against one of Italy’s top strike duos in Fiorentina’s Alberto Gilardino and Adrian Mutu, who scored one and two respectively in Sunday’s 3-1 win over Palermo.Roma, runners-up last term, have more important issues to worry about for Wednesday’s visit of Sampdoria after losing their fifth league game in eight on Sunday, a 3-1 defeat at Udinese.President Rosella Sensi has sent the players on a team-bonding retreat to try to arrest the slide and Spalletti knows he is almost on borrowed time.Resurgent AC Milan, just a point behind the leaders after Sunday’s 1-0 win at Atalanta, host midtable Siena.Injury-hit Juventus travel to Bologna hoping their mini-crisis is over after winning Saturday’s Turin derby against struggling Torino.Nampa-ReutersThe champions have no trouble ripping teams apart away from home but they have struggled to find creativity at the San Siro, with Mourinho especially angry with a lack of width on Sunday.”My players on the field do what I say,” the Portuguese told reporters.”Probably someone doesn’t know me well yet.Who knows maybe I’ll take it into account when I call up players for Wednesday.”Media reports said his anger was directed at Mario Balotelli, Julio Cruz and Victor Obinna, who came on in the second half.Inter will come up against one of Italy’s top strike duos in Fiorentina’s Alberto Gilardino and Adrian Mutu, who scored one and two respectively in Sunday’s 3-1 win over Palermo.Roma, runners-up last term, have more important issues to worry about for Wednesday’s visit of Sampdoria after losing their fifth league game in eight on Sunday, a 3-1 defeat at Udinese.President Rosella Sensi has sent the players on a team-bonding retreat to try to arrest the slide and Spalletti knows he is almost on borrowed time.Resurgent AC Milan, just a point behind the leaders after Sunday’s 1-0 win at Atalanta, host midtable Siena.Injury-hit Juventus travel to Bologna hoping their mini-crisis is over after winning Saturday’s Turin derby against struggling Torino.Nampa-Reuters