Simone Inzaghi

Will Simone Inzaghi win a Scudetto at Inter?


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Carboni is not a midfielder.

You guys need to be serious here now. Gagliardini is shit but you cannot expect a coach to put fucking Carboni on the pitch when we are leading 1-2 in a away match, to replace Barella.
That seriousness will bring us EL next season.
 

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Inter was exactly the way many here jeez to see Inter: playing poorly while keeping a lead. Even in Conte time we were playing many matches like that but still managed to get a win at the end. Small details are always a deciding factor in football. Petagna missed a chance but so did our players. And we had a goal wrongly disallowed when the match was 1-2.

But we made mistakes which at the end cost us dearly. While we could blame Inzaghi for the lost points, I don't hold him accountable for what I saw last night.

Playing ugly isn't the problem. Sometimes it will happen. You can't expect to perform at your best in every game. The problem is we can't win ugly. Squad lacks the right mindset for this type of game. When we don't play well we usually drop points.
 

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Playing ugly isn't the problem. Sometimes it will happen. You can't expect to perform at your best in every game. The problem is we can't win ugly. Squad lacks the right mindset for this type of game. When we don't play well we usually drop points.
Yeah, in this case I would say it was purely Mkhitaryan's fault. We played the time wasting cycle well till Lukaku lost the ball like an amateur (Lukaku's performance overall is one topic). We still got the ball back but Mkhitaryan lost it at the key moment. If we didn't lost the ball, I doubt we would have lost it.

We didn't really give Monza chances in the end even though we were in a bit of trouble. But those amateur hour things by certain players destroyed our win this time.

Inzaghi needs to get these type of things on check. He can't do anything to Lukaku being so fucking shit of a player but he can tell Mkhitaryan and everyone not to do that shit ever again what Mkhitaryan did.
 

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Because he is overusing same players constantly. Where was the problem to start Asllani or Gagliardini instead of Barella/Mkhitaryan in a game like this? This way, one has a spare quality midfielder on the bench and 2 decent on the field. Same with Dzeko. The guy is 36 years old and it is clear that he cannot deliver every 3-4 days. Lukaku has low confidence and he kept him on the bench? For a mentality fragile player like him, that was bad decision, and considering that Dzeko played almost full game couple of days ago, he should have come like a substitute instead.
Okay so some people don't want to see Gags play ever and some want him to start games.
 

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Okay so some people don't want to see Gags play ever and some want him to start games.
You got me wrong. I want to preserve as much as possible our starters, even if this means to start Gag in some games against bottom opponents. I personally prefer Asllani, but i saw that our coach rates Gagliardini for some reason, therefore i've mentioned him.
 

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And yet when Asllani entered the pitch we became worse. I would have rested Hakan in Parma match but not in Serie A. Afterwards complaining about usage of players because they got injury is a bit rich given it was two games since the break. It's not like Hakan had been playing for weeks and needed a rest to avoid possible injuries.
 

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As much as Lukaku has utterly failed his club and country this year, our biggest problem is defence. We have conceded the most goals out of any team in the Top 10. We have a relegation level defence.

Do we need to score 20 goals just to beat Monza? We need to start spending money at the back.
 

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No, we don't need to spend it on defense. We have already the best defenders in the league plus Denzel, Darmian , DiMarco , Gosens are at the top of current Serie A wingback quality.

Its the defensive set up by the manager and his team. We just can't have a balanced set up. We can only do 4-3 wins not 1-0 .
 

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No, we don't need to spend it on defense. We have already the best defenders in the league plus Denzel, Darmian , DiMarco , Gosens are at the top of current Serie A wingback quality.

Its the defensive set up by the manager and his team. We just can't have a balanced set up. We can only do 4-3 wins not 1-0 .

Yes, we need to spend on it defence. Inzaghi actually has a formed a proper attack for once. It's what allowed us to beat Barca, and even Napoli.

We go back to Conte ball to make up for defender shortcomings, and our offence suffers. Let's not overrate our defenders.
 
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As much as Lukaku has utterly failed his club and country this year, our biggest problem is defence. We have conceded the most goals out of any team in the Top 10. We have a relegation level defence.

Do we need to score 20 goals just to beat Monza? We need to start spending money at the back.
I wrote this detail in another thread:

Away matches goals conceded 20 in 9 games. 2.22 per match (though one away match was 3 conceded against Milan which was obv in Meazza)

Home matches goals conceded: 4 in 8 games. 0.5 per match

That is some insane difference. So purely goals conceded amount cannot be used as argument our defence suck. Because it doesn't suck in Meazza most of the cases, including zeroing the league leaders just few days ago.
 
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I wrote this detail in another thread:

Away matches goals conceded 20 in 9 games. 2.22 per match (though one away match was 3 conceded against Milan which was obv in Meazza)

Home matches goals conceded: 4 in 8 games. 0.5 per match

That is some insane difference. So purely goals conceded amount cannot be used as argument our defence suck. Because it doesn't suck in Meazza most of the cases, including zeroing the league leaders just few days ago.

So we just excuse the horrendous performance away from home? Obviously there is a mental aspect to it, but if you need to be at home to play well, you are not a top player.
 
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Maybe we changed drivers and the team is struggling to adjust after the trips.
 

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So we just excuse the horrendous performance away from home? Obviously there is a mental aspect to it, but if you need to be at home to play well, you are not a top player.
Point is there is certainly something which cannot be explained by simple "players aren't good enough".

I'm not excusing anything, did you read what I wrote? I made a notion. Because the stats show such drastic difference between home and away games, there needs to be something they are doing wrong in away matches.
 

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Point is there is certainly something which cannot be explained by simple "players aren't good enough".

I'm not excusing anything, did you read what I wrote? I made a notion. Because the stats show such drastic difference between home and away games, there needs to be something they are doing wrong in away matches.

Ok, but what is that thing? We need to take concrete steps to fixing problems. How can we fix something that we can't even diagnose?

To me our defenders just aren't good enough defensively (I've no issue with wingbacks attacking for example). Whether that problem is something mental that only happens on away games, or technical ability, doesn't matter. We need people that won't shit the bed when offensive pressure is on them.
 

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Let's try something:

Goals conceded in away matches:
Lecce 1
Lazio 3
(Milan 3)
Udinese 3

After these matches, we had the crisis meeting and started to look a lot better in general (still lost to Roma at home, unfortunately). And yet, we just can't keep clean sheets in away matches:

Sassuolo 1
Fiorentina 3
Juventus 2
Atalanta 2
Monza 2


Goals conceded in home matches:
Spezia 0
Cremonese 1
Torino 0
Roma 2
Salernitana 0
Sampdoria 0
Bologna 1
Napoli 0

So okay, maybe our home game opponents have been worse? So it's been easier to keep clean sheets. Then again we looked defensive REALLY good against Napoli, and that was like 4 days ago. Am I drawing too hasty conclusions out of this atm?

Gonna definitely follow this statistic and will the trend continue.
 
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