Mauro Icardi

[Mad Biscione]

I totally blame Icardi. Fucks sake, should he score in the first half, ref would use VAR and allow the goal imo. Also absolutely disastrous penaly. His worst game in Inter yet?

 

[Ed.]

Always have a poor performance when he is in contract talk with the club.

 

[Batman]

Also if anyone notices, he looks like he’s bee gaining some weights.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

Also if anyone notices, he looks like he’s bee gaining some weights.

How the fuck did you notice that?

 

[Batman]

How the fuck did you notice that?

By my eyes.

 

[Demenza Senile]

How the fuck did you notice that?

Dude he is Batman.Ofcourse he sees all this.

But you will obviously disagree because you can't find him with your bullshit crosses even when there is more of him for you to aim at .

 

[thatdude]

Also if anyone notices, he looks like he’s bee gaining some weights.

He always looks heavier in the white Jersey for some reason

 

[JJM]

 

[Javier'sSon]

I don't blame him for today's shitshow. Yeah, he missed plenty of good chances and a freaking penalty but all strikers, no matter how good they are, have one of those games and sadly today it was Icardi's off day. I'm more pissed at Candreva and Perisic for not picking up the slack and helping out Icardi with goals that actually secure us 3 points instead of extending a lead or when playing a shit team with no pressure. Perisic especially is the one you'd hope to step it up but he has been utter garbage lately.

About the penalty, I knew he was going to miss it when he did the slow walk before shooting to try and confuse the keeper but he stood his ground and jumped exactly where he thought Icardi was going to aim for. Good read and save from him.

 

[wera]

It just shows that he isn't ready yet to be our new Ibra, Eto'o or Milito

Horrible penalty too, if ee call Lukaku inconsistent, then Icardi is too

 

[JJM]

Ibra had Deki,Icardi has Brozo...

Eto'o had Sneijder and Milito

do you see my point

 

[wera]

And Perišić has Icardi, who is not up to par

 

[armin_z]

Yes but he was talking about his old contract there. Not the one he is about to sign.

Yes, but if the club requested it before I think they will request it this time too.

 

[Shaun]

I don't blame him for today's shitshow. Yeah, he missed plenty of good chances and a freaking penalty but all strikers, no matter how good they are, have one of those games and sadly today it was Icardi's off day. I'm more pissed at Candreva and Perisic for not picking up the slack and helping out Icardi with goals that actually secure us 3 points instead of extending a lead or when playing a shit team with no pressure. Perisic especially is the one you'd hope to step it up but he has been utter garbage lately.

About the penalty, I knew he was going to miss it when he did the slow walk before shooting to try and confuse the keeper but he stood his ground and jumped exactly where he thought Icardi was going to aim for. Good read and save from him.

I'm not going to blame him for an off day either, but this team is very much set up to service him as much as possible. At other clubs you see wingers cut inside and shoot on a regular basis, or see central midfielders making runs into the box to get shots on goals. But pretty much everything this season is aimed at getting Icardi a shot on goal. So when he does have an off day it is very noticeable.

 

[Bluenine]

The problem is that we are too dependent on Icardi for the goals. So if Icardi has an off day, we are fucked. Perisic does chip in with his share, but Candreva is more focussed on assisting Icardi than scoring himself. Spalletti needs to tell the wingers to cut in more often and take the shot. The two wingers need to score in double figures every season.

Even then, we are one goalscoring midfielder short. One of our midfielders needs to score 8-10 goals a season, and at the moment its hard to imagine anyone doing even half that. IMO that is our biggest problem. We need to replace Bro/Mario with a proper AM who can score consistently.

 

[Javier'sSon]

I'm not going to blame him for an off day either, but this team is very much set up to service him as much as possible. At other clubs you see wingers cut inside and shoot on a regular basis, or see central midfielders making runs into the box to get shots on goals. But pretty much everything this season is aimed at getting Icardi a shot on goal. So when he does have an off day it is very noticeable.

I'd usually agree with you, not just because you make a valid point but also your hot as fuck, but not this season. Icardi has been drifting wide a lot more acting as support for whoever's on the wing under the guidance of Spalletti and making runs to open space for other players more frequently, something I've also noticed is that he hasn't been going all the way inside the penalty box when a cross is about to come to be at the end of it but instead checks his run and hovers around the edge of the penalty area when Perisic and whoever else goes deeper and closer to the goal. This tells me that we're trying to get others more involved in scoring (mainly Perisic) and perhaps also adding another layer to Icardi's game.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

He always looks heavier in the white Jersey for some reason

Because its a fucking pajamas so he was missing his bed.

- - - Updated - - -

By my eyes.

Are you on mushrooms?

 

[Shaun]

I'd usually agree with you, not just because you make a valid point but also your hot as fuck, but not this season. Icardi has been drifting wide a lot more acting as support for whoever's on the wing under the guidance of Spalletti and making runs to open space for other players more frequently, something I've also noticed is that he hasn't been going all the way inside the penalty box when a cross is about to come to be at the end of it but instead checks his run and hovers around the edge of the penalty area when Perisic and whoever else goes deeper and closer to the goal. This tells me that we're trying to get others more involved in scoring (mainly Perisic) and perhaps also adding another layer to Icardi's game.

I'm not going to disagree with you about Icardi doing more from a movement perspective to get others involved and is trying to be less predictable, but no other player in the league has a side which is built around finding them as we do with him. Candreva is not only leading the league in assists but in key passes as well, and his tendency to shoot he had during in Lazio days has pretty much gone. Perisic despite not being as cross dominant plays a bit part in dragging players away from Icardi more so than getting involved most of the time. He often is now the second man in the box trying to get on the end of crosses, this despite this not really being a strength of his. Our central midfielders too are more about facilitating the balls to the wings than they are about crafting our their own opportunities. Now this has until very recently been effective for us, but as I said earlier when Icardi is having a off day it means we're going to struggle because the side isn't set up for a plan B

 

[M.Adnan]

Besides Icardi and Perisic, we don't have any other goalscorer. Not cool.

Remember when even the RB (Maicon) used to score goals from time to time? We need to bring that trend back. Banega used to do that at some point, but too bad that instead we've decided to keep the midfielder who costs triple his price and can't score in a kids 5-a-side match.

 

[Javier'sSon]

I'm not going to disagree with you about Icardi doing more from a movement perspective to get others involved and is trying to be less predictable, but no other player in the league has a side which is built around finding them as we do with him.

And why does it feel like you're blaming him for that? He is that good to build a team around him and the numbers he conjured and the pathetic excuse of "support" he's had these last few years only helps his case in my opinion. Only reliable player I could think of who made life easier for him was Kovacic.

Candreva is not only leading the league in assists but in key passes as well, and his tendency to shoot he had during in Lazio days has pretty much gone.

Kudus to him for that and Candreva does work hard for the team but I believe that Icardi shares as much credit for those assists as Candreva when you think of how many good opportunities the Italian wastes to set up Icardi (or anyone else for that matter), specifically when he's in the right place and the timing is perfect to cross/pass the ball but he overthinks shit as if it was me wondering "should I text her back" instead of just fuckin doing it and more often than not the threat of the attack is significantly diminshed in those couple of hesitating seconds. I've never played as a striker at a high level but I imagine it gets really frustrating to play off someone like Candreva who's never set on what he wants to do with ball, specially in the crucial moments.

And if what you say is true about him not shooting as much as he does when he was at Lazio then he must've been spamming that square button because I still think he goes for it quite often at Inter.

Perisic despite not being as cross dominant plays a bit part in dragging players away from Icardi more so than getting involved most of the time. He often is now the second man in the box trying to get on the end of crosses, this despite this not really being a strength of his. Our central midfielders too are more about facilitating the balls to the wings than they are about crafting our their own opportunities. Now this has until very recently been effective for us, but as I said earlier when Icardi is having a off day it means we're going to struggle because the side isn't set up for a plan B

True Perisic does help Icardi a lot with his off the ball movement but I fail to see your point regarding his ineffectiveness being the 2nd man in the box, he's tall, strong and I'm pretty sure have been scoring headers since his time in Germany.

I never really understood why our managers have been opting to go with the wings strategy over anything else when we have someone like Icardi who has similar characteristics as those to Kane or Morata and are not your typical (old fashioned) big number 9s. And their teams don't rely on crosses as much as we do and they're doing just fine (I'm not denying that fact that they obviously have much better players but still). So, again, I don't blame him but the managers and the club too because we have been known to have shown little patience with creative attacking players who don't run themselves to death and that's what we need if we want to ditch this soul crushing, penis limping style of play. I'm sure Icardi can perform as good if not better if we were more dynamic and played through the middle, he has really been improving with his off the ball movement, among other facets of his overall game.