Marcelo Brozović

[Alex de Large]

https://twitter.com/FuckYouSerieA/status/1178244985021505537

 

[I'mNewHere]

Time to show up agains Barca, another opponent that presses high. If we can manage to play through their high press it will be an even game.

 

[Universe]

Fantastic news. Brozovic’s wife is pregnant again. Considering how much he matured and improved after having his first child, practically going from shit to great overnight, I can safely say he’s now a future Ballon d’Or and triplete winner.

 

[Demokritos]

Fantastic news. Brozovic’s wife is pregnant again. Considering how much he matured and improved after having his first child, practically going from shit to great overnight, I can safely say he’s now a future Ballon d’Or and triplete winner.

this is his second? he need one more to be triplete level

 

[Batman]

This is random, but I just want to take a moment to appreciate Brozovic. When we first signed him in the winter of that messy season, arriving at the airport with no fans around (compared to Podolski and Shaqiri) and all the pics of him with no smiles and the rumors of him failing the driving test few times, I’m sure many of us would believe he would half the players he is today, or dont think he would even survive here, despite knowing he had talent.

Yes he had talent and he was already a starter for Croatia and even played in the World Cup 2014. But knowing our history with young players, surrounded by mediocre players and coaches, we still didnt think he would succeed here. Roller coaster continued with him having no position at all, to him perfoming inconsistently, to the behavioral issues with de Boer, to him back as a starter with Pioli, then being benched again and rumored to leave several times, until Spalletti found him the best position, to me that’s Spalletti’s most improtant thing he did for us after qualifying for the CL twice. It’s crazy how he developed and slowly became our most important player in the team.

I dont know about you guys but I never thought he would be even half of the player he is today, at least for us. Not perfect and still concentration issues, but he is more than enough to lead us to the next stage. He is world class and I’m glad he progressed this way at Inter.

Hope this post wont jinx him tough.

 

[Javier'sSon]

I can safely say he’s now a future Ballon d’Or and triplete winner.

It's one or the other mate. Case in point, Sneijder.

 

[Devious]

First half vs Barca Brozo was immense, crucial movements and great passing and defending. The second half performance went downhill, the second goal was 70% on him for leaving Messi with no pressure at all running towards the area, but maybe he has run out if fuel which worries me for the next derby match.

 

[thatdude]

Tactically he still lacks something defensively. But he is the best we have and the best we’ve had in that position since Motta and Cambiasso

 

[Lui]

Needs to hit that next level, not optimistic that he can reach it for what Inter want to achieve in the near future.

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[acroMacho]

He is more of a creative link up player in the middle and struggle with hard press. But when space is open, he is bossing. It's not about him stepping up.

For this kind of games, you need someone else who is more comfortable on the ball and used to pressing, so someone who plays DM normally.

I was looking at Mikel Merino at Real Sociedad, he would be my pick to add depth to this team.

 

[CafeCordoba]

And we have to talk about this giu. He's simply not world class. When the pressure is at the highest (Barcelona @ Camp Nou), he can't cope with it. I suggested in mercato thread that get Tonalo and nurture him to be our DPL. He's going to be the new Pirlo.

And don't read this like it was Brozo's fault we lost against Barcelona, not saying this at all. I'm just saying my perception of the player generally. It's been always like this, away games against tough opponents and he just loses his composure. He played well today, I'm not denying that, but STILL he managed to lose the ball several times and at that role it is simply unacceptable.

 

[Universe]

He's not a fucking DM. He's a playmaker. He was getting pissed off even in the first half because we were giving the ball away so cheaply by rushing it forward whenever we had possession.

In the second half, taking off Sanchez just compounded things further by completely surrendering our ability to attack and hold the ball in advanced positions. Add to that it was Gagliardini who came on, who is not any kind of defensive specialist either. We end up with another body clogging up midfield, but one that doesn't particularly elevate either our ability to attack or shore up our defence.

Brozovic isn't Cambiasso or Fernandinho or Fabinho or Kante. He's not a defensive linchpin. Putting him in that kind of situation is dangerous to begin with and is the inherent risk of playing the way we do with the midfielders we have.

It's hard to blame Conte considering the trash that is our bench, but he should've done more to prevent this desperate, all-out defense situation to begin with. Namely, by making less defensive substitutions or keeping Sanchez/Candreva on the pitch to try keep some balance.

We'd also do well to pick up a Rincon-type in January IMO. I've been screaming for a pure DM for years. Pulgar would've been great for example. Valero absolutely needs to fuck off as he's been made completely redundant with two great ball-playing mids like Sensi and Barella having joined the team. Instead, we need an Allan-type rotation DM exactly for games like these.

 

[thatdude]

Like I said a few weeks ago I think we will be shopping for a long term solution for his position this summer. If we are going to play with Sensi and Barella as our midfield two we need an actual DM behind them. Not a CM converted into a metronome type. The fact that he can put in the odd tackle and happens to have three lunges makes him serviceable, but we need an actual holding midfielder.

 

[Tanel]

Give the lad some time, he was easily our Top 3 last season. While positionally he is in the same position, the role and dynamics of the midfield are a bit different, especially with 3 at the back. You can clearly see that the main trio is still adapting to each other and Brozovic especially to a new role, and he's been very good in the league.

And let's be honest in most games we won't be playing Barcelona so having what is essentially a player who can only defend is pointless, especially when all 3 of our midfield is generally well capable of helping in defence and it should get better if they play with eachother more and become more of a unit.

Am not sure where this more comfortable player on the ball could be at that some people want - as far as I know a guy that makes 70+ passes a game with 90%+ success rate is a player that is very comfortable in the ball, especially when a lot of them are hard/forward passes that really do get us out of the pressure/open up the play.

 

[Wallace]

Yeah, I’m also not convinced sticking a random dm would maintain the current Sensi Brozovic linkup.

A lot of times the ball searching for and reaching Sensi who makes his way into the final third from the midfield isn’t as trivial as Brozovic makes it look.

Find a sub for Brozovic to help shutting the game out, yes. Find a long term replacement and bench Brozovic, probably a no.

I still maintain that we need to offload Gagliardini, Vecino, and Valero, however.

 

[rockball]

He had a couple of misses this game, of course that is inevitable. Otherwise he had a great game. People here expect him to be a Kante+Pirlo, and that too against a team which has 70% of possession.

 

[n4l]

He had a couple of misses this game, of course that is inevitable. Otherwise he had a great game. People here expect him to be a Kante+Pirlo, and that too against a team which has 70% of possession.

Well he's nowhere near as good defensively as kante and nowhere near as good offensively as pirlo. But maybe he can be like frenkie? Or Rodri? Pjanic? Partey? Biscuits? Casemiro? There are players who can fucking pass and fucking defend well at the same time, by themselves. Own the DM role.

Brozo is a good player. Very good one. But he's a compromised player. He is essentially a behind-the-ball "DM" in the 2xDM 4-2-3-1. He needs a partner next to him. Once you start trying to play V shaped midfield trio with a solo DM, he doesn't work because you have to compromise one of your box-to-box CMs to help brozo (spallo's problem in his 4-2-3-1). It's essentially the same with Conte now (barella comes back much more to help out defensively). Which means you get some limitations in how much to consistently push in attack.

 

[thatdude]

Exactly. The top teams with a sole DM: Liverpool, Barca, Man City, Real, Juventus

Going down the line at DM you have Fabinho, Busquets/De Jong, Rodri/Fernandinho, Casemiro, and Pjanic.

I would say the player most similar to Brozovic is Pjanic. In order to make their midfield work they often have to play a protector, that is usually Matuidi or Khedira. This year Sarri has often gone for both. Same thing with Sarri’s Napoli (Allan) or his Chelsea (Kante). Even going back to when Pirlo played under Conte and Allegri the protector was Vidal, and what do you know, he did the same job last night for De Jong. We had no answer.

Again my point is if we are going to play Sensi and Barella I think we need a true holding midfielder. If we are insistent Brozovic play that position we need a box to box player who’s man attribute is tackling. Maybe that player long term is Barella but I’m not sure that’s his best use and he’s certainly not there yet physically.

 

[acroMacho]

The question here is not about replacing him, as some of you may think. The point is that we need another midfielder with different qualities (not just Brozo replacement) to adapt and play different types of games and add more depth in the squad.

For that purpose I would look to some holding midfielder type first.

 

[Lui]

I like Barella to play that CM role in the future. He always wants the ball, has a good eye for a long pass, and he'll have more options to execute. He's also more agile than brozovic and can switch play from left to right. You see brozo yesterday struggling to turn and switch and forced that outside foot pass that gave me fucking heart attacks.

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