Miki has been mediocre in many games and even bad at the beginning of the season, but he is always a starter and it was about a time to begin to deliver. Asllani from another hand gets something like 5-15 minutes at the end of the matches. I don't know what do you expect of him for that limited time? He was a starter for the Coppa, when he was well involved in our 2.goals with his excellent long passes. So, basically he delivered in his only game as a starter.
That coppa match we played a serie B opponent and had to go to overtime I m sure aslani and the team did great......... (yes i know miki was a starter too).
Point here is we always make this assumptios that the young player on the bench has to be better and should play but 99% of the time we are dead wrong.
How many of the young midfielders we wated to see get more playing time did amount to players good enough to be inter back ups?
Poli? Duncan? Taider? Mariga? Bessa? I m sure i m forgetting some...
But fact is we usually bitch about them not getting playing time and we re sure their better than the old geezers we have on the pitch. But when they move on to much lesser clubs they usually still dont amount to any thing worthy of wearing an inter shirt.
That being said i m not saying asllani is shit or wont amount to nothing, I m saying more often then not our coaches do the right thing in not playing these young "talents"
Since i m an inter fan there are arguably 3 to 4 players that would qualify as not getting playing time here and making it big elsewhere.
Pirlo, Bonucci, Coutinho and maybe zaniolo and RC...
Now RC was forced out by the coach, Zainolo pretty much also since spallo wanted Raja.
Pirlo was cut clear our mistake and Bonucci after seeing him outside of jube and how attrocious he was without chiellini I m not that sure we made a huge mistake there.
These are 4 plyers in 25+ years.
How many did we bitch about not getting enough playing time?
Also the likes of Barella, skriniar, bastoni, brozo, Icardi and martinez all conquered a starting spot here while still being youngish....