Inter face defensive confidence crisis

Inter Milans defence will be under scrutiny when they play their first competitive match of the season at the San Siro on Wednesday in the Champions League against Turkish debutants Trabzonspor.Inters two competitive games so far have ended in defeat, to arch-rivals AC Milan in the Italian Supercup in Beijing a little over a month ago, and on Sunday in Sicily against Palermo.But it was the manner of their 4-3 reverse to Palermo that was most worrying for coach Gian Piero Gasperini in his first season in the job.Gasperini has already courted much controversy with his highly publicised switch to a back three from a conventional back four.The 53-year-old has always preferred a back three and enjoyed a certain amount of success with that system when coach of Genoa.But its rarity in modern football has already turned it into a major talking point in Italy.Even before his Sicilian reverse Gasperini was forced to answer questions about whether or not he would change the system if it didnt work.Even club president Massimo Moratti was asked about whether his coach would change the system.After one game Gasperini is already under pressure to alter his ideas, but he is adamant he will stick with it.Following the defeat to Palermo he said it was a lack of concentration rather than the system that were to blame.At the end we had the game in our hands and we could have won but things went against us and we lost, he said.We have to think about it a lot, we were conceding counters from our own corners due to (a lack of) concentration.