体坛英语新闻：No excuse for Inter's poor form :Ranieri

ROME, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- Inter head coach Claudio Ranieri said on Friday his side could make no excuse for their current poor form ahead of their Saturday's Serie A encounter at home against Firentina.

"When things go wrong you must strive to see things in a positive light to "rebalance" the situation. We are in a moment where help from the fans is important. United we will come out of it," he was quoted as saying by football-italia.net.

"Our strong performances should be at home, but despite all our efforts we are failing. We're working hard and the fans are not abandoning us. In times of need we need the fans."

It was then put to Ranieri that the various formations he has used in recent weeks are contributing to the continued poor form, disorientating the players.

"It might be a good excuse. In modern football it is always changing. We have changed little in terms of formation and we were forced to change because we have not had all the players available.

"This team knows how to change formation and we must not make excuses. We're missing the goal, this is true, but we must be more careful. The boys cannot be criticised for anything against CSKA, the performance was positive, despite the result," he said.