Simone Inzaghi

I do not subscribe to the view that we have had an easy draw. As soon as we start arguing along those lines, we devalue the achievements of our team. It takes away from what to date, has been a very unexpected run and string of results.

It is well established that if we had been asked on the evening of the Champions League draw whether we would be happy with reaching the semi-finals, given the group we were in, the answer would have been a unanimous yes. The draw and the teams that we have encountered are totally out of our control.

In previous years (Under Conte) we were drawn in difficult groups and never made it to the second round of the competition. Today, with a far less talented team in terms of playing personnel, we are in the semi-finals of the competition. When you think about how there was minimal investment from Suning over the Summer and the club's transfer policy focusing on veteran free agents, it makes our run all the more remarkable.

In relation to Inzaghi, I was one of the posters calling for his sacking. Even today, I have not been able to get over the weak way in which we capitualted and conceded the Scudetto to Milan last year. And I am at a total loss at how we started this season and were out of the race for the Scudetto after two months. Even with the absences of Brozovic and Lukaku, that should not have happened.

I still think questions need to be asked about the first two months of the season and why our form has been so up and down and irregular. Having said that, I think Inzaghi's efforts on the back end of this season need to be acknowledged. We all know he has been on the brink of losing his job given the way the team has played in Serie A.

Somehow, he has managed to pull everyone together for this final stretch of the season and I guess I have been asking why it took so long. Perhaps it is down to to the fact that we simply can not fight on three fronts due to lack of squad depth and therefore had to pick the competitions/cups in which we would give everything to be a protagonist.

If we finish top 4, win the Coppa and make the Champions League final, I will be more than satisfied with our season. Inzaghi has my backing and I do not think we will find a better coach nor will we be able to afford a rebuild under a new tactician.

Let's enjoy the ride! Love you guys!

FORZA INTER!

Don't u guys think that the deep run of Italian teams in the CL has significant impact on the performance drop off by most top serie a teams in the league?

Napoli are kinda lucky they have accumulated big advantage at the start, if it not for that they probably will also choke this scudetto run. Their form has significantly drop off too past 4-0 beat down by bilan.

Especially @.h. who consider inzaghi under achieve this season by not challenging for scudetto, it's probably less of the fault of inzaghi and more of napoli overachieving compare to the rest

So if he gets Inter to the final and secures a CL spot, wonder if P$G or Premier League wannabe will come calling? If so, what would be the economic ramifications for Inter? Then who do Inter call?

My two cents are that inzaghi is the opposite of conte

Free flowing football good at cup competions and suck at league.

Inzaghi also deserves credit for his attacking style of play and unlike managers who say they set their team up to win, Inzaghi means it and is all or nothing in terms of results.

I believe that Inter’s fortune in the CL is also down to Inzaghi’s attacking football. We shouldn’t forget that Inter qualified from the R16 by out scoring Barca, not be defending at the Camp Nou.

Jusef said:

Inzaghi also deserves credit for his attacking style of play and unlike managers who say they set their team up to win, Inzaghi means it and is all or nothing in terms of results.

I believe that Inter’s fortune in the CL is also down to Inzaghi’s attacking football. We shouldn’t forget that Inter qualified from the R16 by out scoring Barca, not be defending at the Camp Nou.

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A lot of people would disagree with this based on the fact that we weren't scoring for a while, and gave this season a serious scare, but I wonder how things would've went if we had a consistent striker up front.

Hopefully the long dip in the strikers' form was just a statistical outlier and not massive mismanagement.

I think my concern, really, is more about next season. I dont personally massively buy the fatigue element yet, and I think Inzaghi is just not a great manager. 11 defeats could easily happen again next season without a deep run into the CL, at which point we're going to be left up shit's creek without a paddle.

Obviously I hope I'm wrong, and to the point I've made a few times, it mneeds to be a part of an end of season discussion to understand the failings this year. Specifically:

1. How do we try to manage our strikers better so we dont have a long dead spell from all of them at the same time
2. How do we fix our defense so we aren't as leaky as we have been until recent weeks
3. How do we avoid 11 defeats in the league again next year
4. What investment does Inzaghi need to make this team competitive for the league title
5. Why have, effectively only 1-3? of our players actually developed under Inzaghi, and the rest regressed if not stayed the same

If the board can get satisfactory answers and thoughts to those questions, then its fine. But thats my point about the "luck" of the CL - next season we might not get lucky, and a season where 80% of the time our maximum points total in the league puts us outside of the CL places without a good run into the CL would be a disaster for this club.

Anyway, I Think i've laboured my point long enough

.h. said:

I think my concern, really, is more about next season. I dont personally massively buy the fatigue element yet, and I think Inzaghi is just not a great manager. 11 defeats could easily happen again next season without a deep run into the CL, at which point we're going to be left up shit's creek without a paddle.

Obviously I hope I'm wrong, and to the point I've made a few times, it mneeds to be a part of an end of season discussion to understand the failings this year. Specifically:

1. How do we try to manage our strikers better so we dont have a long dead spell from all of them at the same time
2. How do we fix our defense so we aren't as leaky as we have been until recent weeks
3. How do we avoid 11 defeats in the league again next year
4. What investment does Inzaghi need to make this team competitive for the league title
5. Why have, effectively only 1-3? of our players actually developed under Inzaghi, and the rest regressed if not stayed the same

If the board can get satisfactory answers and thoughts to those questions, then its fine. But thats my point about the "luck" of the CL - next season we might not get lucky, and a season where 80% of the time our maximum points total in the league puts us outside of the CL places without a good run into the CL would be a disaster for this club.

Anyway, I Think i've laboured my point long enough

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Points 1 & 2 have already been fixed in recent weeks and point 3 is directly related to points 1 & 2 so we might not get 11 defeats next season.

aymantawil said:

Points 1 & 2 have already been fixed in recent weeks and point 3 is directly related to points 1 & 2 so we might not get 11 defeats next season.

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Points 1 and 2 are fixed at the moment, but we need to be confident its a long term solution, rather than form, if that makes sense. We cant go through another 2 month patch of no goals from strikers next season, so we need to feel absolutely confident that whatever we think is working will work for the long term rather than just luckily having lautaro, dzeko, and lukaku hit form at the right time of the season

To draw a parallel, its like when Adriano scored like 5 goals in quick succession under Mourinho - the question to ask ourselves at that point is, do we really think peak Adriano is back, or is this just a lucky run of form?

And then plan around that accordingly

Benfica topped the group with crisi Juve and Psg.

Porto topped the group with crisi Atletico and Bayer.

Napoli topped the group with crisi Liver and Ajax

Milan was humiliated by crisi Chelsea with Potter twice and qualified to playoffs thanks to being in a very easy group

We couldn't do a shit against stable Bayern and finished second thanks to that home win against Barca with the referee's controversial decision not to give penalty on Dumfries handball. Had that match ended 1:1, the result at Cam Nou might have been different.

People outside of serie A rightly feel unconvinced with our semifinal tie. Only winning the final can prove our real worth.

forzainter257 said:

Benfica topped the group with crisi Juve and Psg.

Porto topped the group with crisi Atletico and Bayer.

Napoli topped the group with crisi Liver and Ajax

Milan was humiliated by crisi Chelsea with Potter twice and qualified to playoffs thanks to being in a very easy group

We couldn't do a shit against stable Bayern and finished second thanks to that home win against Barca with the referee's controversial decision not to give penalty on Dumfries handball. Had that match ended 1:1, the result at Cam Nou might have been different.

People outside of serie A rightly feel unconvinced with our semifinal tie. Only winning the final can prove our real worth.

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If everyone else was in crisis, then it's only fair that the teams who best dealt with crisis make it to the semi finals.

And also to be fair, only Bayern might have the right to complain about the draw. Liverpool, PSG, Chelsea, Barca... don't having any argument going for them.

.h. said:

I think my concern, really, is more about next season. I dont personally massively buy the fatigue element yet, and I think Inzaghi is just not a great manager. 11 defeats could easily happen again next season without a deep run into the CL, at which point we're going to be left up shit's creek without a paddle.

Obviously I hope I'm wrong, and to the point I've made a few times, it mneeds to be a part of an end of season discussion to understand the failings this year. Specifically:

1. How do we try to manage our strikers better so we dont have a long dead spell from all of them at the same time
2. How do we fix our defense so we aren't as leaky as we have been until recent weeks
3. How do we avoid 11 defeats in the league again next year
4. What investment does Inzaghi need to make this team competitive for the league title
5. Why have, effectively only 1-3? of our players actually developed under Inzaghi, and the rest regressed if not stayed the same

If the board can get satisfactory answers and thoughts to those questions, then its fine. But thats my point about the "luck" of the CL - next season we might not get lucky, and a season where 80% of the time our maximum points total in the league puts us outside of the CL places without a good run into the CL would be a disaster for this club.

Anyway, I Think i've laboured my point long enough

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It's not like a there's vacant coach waiting to be hired to upgrade him. The only one I can think of is conte. After what happened last time around, I don't think either party willing to be reunited again.
Current best case scenario is sticking with him until someone like simeone or allegri is available. Gambling by hiring unproven coach like juric or Motta is pointless

.h. said:

Why have, effectively only 1-3? of our players actually developed under Inzaghi, and the rest regressed if not stayed the same

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Curious to see who these 1-3 players are.

Superminion said:

It's not like a there's vacant coach waiting to be hired to upgrade him. The only one I can think of is conte. After what happened last time around, I don't think either party willing to be reunited again.
Current best case scenario is sticking with him until someone like simeone or allegri is available. Gambling by hiring unproven coach like juric or Motta is pointless

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Yeah, I dont think its an unreasonable opinion tbh. I'd still personally focus on a post-season retropsective and understand what investment inzaghi is asking for, and look at how we execute.

forzainter257 said:

Benfica topped the group with crisi Juve and Psg.

Porto topped the group with crisi Atletico and Bayer.

Napoli topped the group with crisi Liver and Ajax

Milan was humiliated by crisi Chelsea with Potter twice and qualified to playoffs thanks to being in a very easy group

We couldn't do a shit against stable Bayern and finished second thanks to that home win against Barca with the referee's controversial decision not to give penalty on Dumfries handball. Had that match ended 1:1, the result at Cam Nou might have been different.

People outside of serie A rightly feel unconvinced with our semifinal tie. Only winning the final can prove our real worth.

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Dude, people still commemorate Liverpool's 2005 win and they forget that they reached the final despite getting a goal they didn't score in the semi final and their 3-3 comeback came from the dive of the century by Gerrard. If it were the other way around everyone would be saying how Italian players dive all the time...
They also probably had the worse CL winning/finalist team of all time, and people are trying to claim that we'll be that. Let's also not ignore that they barely escaped the group at the final minutes against the worst team in the history of the competition, on same level points!

Yet we have a roster that's made up of World Cup, Euro, Copa America winners and runner ups. We won our domestic league recently unlike them who barely managed to reach the top 4 in their previous 10 seasons and even failed several times. Their only world class player was Xabi Alonso but he actually wasn't playing that much because of injuries and he was still rather raw.


Stop paying attention to what others say. They're mostly stupid.

brehme1989 said:

Let's also not ignore that they barely escaped the group at the final minutes against the worst team in the history of the competition, on same level points!

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I saw what you did there

Il Drago said:

I saw what you did there

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Spilling facts?

forzainter257 said:

Benfica topped the group with crisi Juve and Psg.

Porto topped the group with crisi Atletico and Bayer.

Napoli topped the group with crisi Liver and Ajax

Milan was humiliated by crisi Chelsea with Potter twice and qualified to playoffs thanks to being in a very easy group

We couldn't do a shit against stable Bayern and finished second thanks to that home win against Barca with the referee's controversial decision not to give penalty on Dumfries handball. Had that match ended 1:1, the result at Cam Nou might have been different.

People outside of serie A rightly feel unconvinced with our semifinal tie. Only winning the final can prove our real worth.

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We were denied a clear and obvious penalty against bayern as well at their stadium.

You're also forgetting milan were missing like 7 players when they played Chelsea and got a bullshit red card.

Also forgetting again that Asllani missed almost an open net at camp nou and dembele should have seen red.

Stop trying to shit on our achievements. Plenty had went against us as well and we got past Porto and benfica in our worst period of form in the last 8 years.

Harpsabu said:

We were denied a clear and obvious penalty against bayern as well at their stadium.

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That happened after our decisive h2h vs Barca

Harpsabu said:

You're also forgetting milan were missing like 7 players when they played Chelsea and got a bullshit red card.

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What 7 players? if anything, they were in a good run in serie A sitting in 3rd place with only 3 points less than Napoli. They didn't get a red card in their 3-0 defeat, plus your argument would be valid if they lost let's say 1-2. Mind you, they had Leao in both games.

Harpsabu said:

Also forgetting again that Asllani missed almost an open net at camp nou and dembele should have seen red.

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Again, that happened after the first match which could have ended 1-1 had the ref pointed to the penalty spot.

Harpsabu said:

Stop trying to shit on our achievements. Plenty had went against us as well and we got past Porto and benfica in our worst period of form in the last 8 years.

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Kudos to players for keeping their motivations in CL high.