Mourinho ready for criticism after Inter’s submission

Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho described the 3-1 mauling at Atalanta as the defending champions' worst performance of the season.

Mourinho ready for criticism after Inter's submission

CAN'T SEE IT: Jose Mourinho

Inter were woeful in the opening 45 minutes as their hosts totally out-played them to turn around at the break with a 3-0 advantage courtesy of a brace from veteran Cristiano Doni and Sergio Floccari's 10th league goal of the season.

The former Chelsea boss, who called himself the 'Chosen One' when he arrived at the English club and never accepted criticism, rung inu00a0the changes and threw on forwards Adriano, Victor Obinna and Luis Figo to try to rescue the match, but had only Zlatan Ibrahimovic's poke from a yard out in injury time to show for their efforts at the final whistle.

"That was our worst performance of the season, you could compare it with our match in Cyprus in the Champions League (a 3-3 draw at Anorthosis Famagusta)," said Mourinho.

"I can't explain my team's first half hour. When we lose I prefer to speak about how well the other team played but we played so badly in the first half that I prefer to say that we brought this result on ourselves.

"I will accept all the criticisms you want to direct at me. The press can use all the adjectives they want and I won't complain.

Disaster
"It was a disaster. Against Cagliari (a 1-1 home draw a week earlier) it was the first match back after the winter break which is never easy but we saw an emotional reaction (from Inter when they went 1-0 down) from a team that wanted it. But even someone who doesn't know football could see that we didn't have the aggression to win the ball or the desire to press, we didn't have the right attitude.

"If the team didn't manage to do that then the coach is at fault for not being able to make them do it. There were 30 minutes that you can't explain in which we conceded stupid and ridiculous goals.

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