Simone Inzaghi

[Dave54]

It is clear that our best or first 11 players are not motivated when playing against lower ranking clubs. Solution is that he start with our reserve players. I guess they will be motivated. They will fight and play their best, just to try and get in starting 11 in other games. Vice versa, players who has secure position than will start to think that their status is in danger. I mean, you learn this in first year in Faculty of sport. That is psihological approach. But, who I am to teach Inzaghi. He earn 5M per year. With this team, he MUST win Scudeto. No excusses!

Well, that approach is good for midtable team, but if you want to fight for Scudetto and go further in CL/EL, you pick the best 11. It's just a one loss.

 

[Mikele]

Well, that approach is good for midtable team, but if you want to fight for Scudetto and go further in CL/EL, you pick the best 11. It's just a one loss.

I do not think that midtable team in Italy, has on the bench players like: Fratessi, Pavard, Sanches, Cuadrado...

 

[Dave54]

Cuadrado is injured, Frattesi is new and has a few games behind his belt. Sanchez is not better than Thuram or Lautaro. He is a 3rd choice now, since Arna is injured.

I would only agree about Pavard, but Dumfries has been doing ok. Our problem is scoring from created chances.

 

[Mikele]

Cuadrado is injured, Frattesi is new and has a few games behind his belt. Sanchez is not better than Thuram or Lautaro. He is a 3rd choice now, since Arna is injured.

I would only agree about Pavard, but Dumfries has been doing ok. Our problem is scoring from created chances.

My friend, you missed my point. I did not say that Sanchez is better than Lautaro or Thuram. I said: against midtable or lower ranked teams, playeds from the bench will be more motivated than our best or first 11 players.

 

[Dave54]

So how come Frattesi did not equalize against Sassuolo? Sanchez did not show much, the time he was given. Let's play Asllani, Sanchez, Klassen and Biseck tomorrow from the start, would that help?

 

[Dave54]

And you missed my points. If you are chasing the trophies. the best 11 must be on the field. No time to experiment, unless we have some cushion in points.

 

[Besnik]

Wait, there's people who thought our bench is good???

We have Frattesi and a few handymen at the back (Darmian, Carlos Augusto + De Vrij/Acerbi)

Anything else is below standards...

The moment either forward isn't playing, we're screwed.
The moment Hakan is out physically or mentally, we're screwed.
The moment Dimarco and/or Barella are out, we're screwed.

Our bench IS actually good. Might not be the ideal solution but it is still good enough regardless of negativity and whatever else while the team is struggling. In fact, since the 09/10 season, we didn't have a roster with better quality and depth. We haven't that sharp recently, and all of sudden our team isn't as good as we thought?

Except of ManCity that has insane squad depth and quality, which other team has anything special in this matter?

I really don't understand pessimism in this forum sometimes. While most of the analists, coaches and former players&coaches praise Inter for their performances, maturity and also quality in overall, there is still people in here that bring arguments that barely make any sense. It's like, don't you think our team or any other will hit a period of poor form, bad results and everything else?

 

[bubba zanetti]

Our bench IS actually good. Might not be the ideal solution but it is still good enough regardless of negativity and whatever else while the team is struggling. In fact, since the 09/10 season, we didn't have a roster with better quality and depth. We haven't that sharp recently, and all of sudden our team isn't as good as we thought?

Except of ManCity that has insane squad depth and quality, which other team has anything special in this matter?

I really don't understand pessimism in this forum sometimes. While most of the analists, coaches and former players&coaches praise Inter for their performances, maturity and also quality in overall, there is still people in here that bring arguments that barely make any sense. It's like, don't you think our team or any other will hit a period of poor form, bad results and everything else?

Well, after great start of season people started to believe that we could do what Napoli did last season. But we already have 1 loss, against mediocre team like Sassuolo, at Meazza. Second half performance was really bad. Our attack only depends on two people and when we lose Hakan we have no player to fill in. Plus people still have trauma from last season and this loss totally reminds us of so many fuckups from last season in Seria A. We aint winning scudetto if we lose every few games against shitty midtable or bottom club, fucking beelan is winning those games with ease.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Well, after great start of season people started to believe that we could do what Napoli did last season. But we already have 1 loss, against mediocre team like Sassuolo, at Meazza. Second half performance was really bad. Our attack only depends on two people and when we lose Hakan we have no player to fill in. Plus people still have trauma from last season and this loss totally reminds us of so many fuckups from last season in Seria A. We aint winning scudetto if we lose every few games against shitty midtable or bottom club, fucking beelan is winning those games with ease.

Last season Napoli had 14 points after 6 games. 4 wins and 2 ties (Fiorentina 0-0, Lecce 1-1). I'm not saying we're gonna head for a win streak they had after those draws, but it's not like we're missing something out here. We're still at the top of the table.

Calma for fuck sake

 

[Besnik]

Well, after great start of season people started to believe that we could do what Napoli did last season. But we already have 1 loss, against mediocre team like Sassuolo, at Meazza. Second half performance was really bad. Our attack only depends on two people and when we lose Hakan we have no player to fill in. Plus people still have trauma from last season and this loss totally reminds us of so many fuckups from last season in Seria A. We aint winning scudetto if we lose every few games against shitty midtable or bottom club, fucking beelan is winning those games with ease.

Football is beautiful because it's unpredictable. Sucks that out of all teams, it's again Sassuolo to break our momentum in the league, but I haven't seen the match so I can't comment on it.

Don't let negative or pessimistic people fool you with stupid examples and narratives. This team has still plenty of quality and the bench is more than good enough. Alexis, Frattesi, Cuadrado, Klaassen, Arnautovic, and there is still one of Darmian/Pavard to sit in the bench or share the starting spot in a long shot. I mean, if these names aren't enough to cover bench solution then I don't know what else do you guys want.

Most of the teams out there have these 2-3 key players that carry their ship throughout the season, whether it is Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern or even others.

Hakan's importance in this team is crucial but there IS still solution despite his eventual absence. It was just bad timing (l.e match vs. Sociedad) that our team as a whole looked out of place. Pretty sure there will be times when Hakan won't be playing because of injury, suspension or whatever, and Inter will still play good and achieve results.

Our team will get back in form, will also eventually drop points and ect. This is how football works but the thing is that we shouldn't let the bad results have impact in our mental state.

 

[brehme1989]

Our bench IS actually good. Might not be the ideal solution but it is still good enough regardless of negativity and whatever else while the team is struggling. In fact, since the 09/10 season, we didn't have a roster with better quality and depth. We haven't that sharp recently, and all of sudden our team isn't as good as we thought?

Except of ManCity that has insane squad depth and quality, which other team has anything special in this matter?

I really don't understand pessimism in this forum sometimes. While most of the analists, coaches and former players&coaches praise Inter for their performances, maturity and also quality in overall, there is still people in here that bring arguments that barely make any sense. It's like, don't you think our team or any other will hit a period of poor form, bad results and everything else?

Squads in 2010 vs squads in 2023? Come on...

Completely different setup.

Top teams have had more depth since the mid 2010s because those that can outspend just buy everyone and they rot on the bench instead of play for teams a click below.

With 5 subs these days there's an even bigger need.

Our squad is not deep. It's deeper than what Inzaghi first found here at some positions, but it's not deep. We need to be very lucky if we want to compete at all fronts.
If we only intend to compete for Scudetto then sure, we're deep enough.

 

[Kova10]

The squad is deep in my opinion as every position is double occupied, BUT the biggest issue is that we don’t have any difference makers coming from the bench bar Frattesi. Sanchez and Cuadrado would’ve been two or three years ago, but they are not there physically.

The most important thing for our starting eleven is to get to lead the game, because we have enough players capable of maintaining a lead, but we don’t have the players we can throw in to pull us back from behind as things stand. Which is why we should have buried Sassuolo in the first half when we had the opportunities to by the way.

 

[varmin]

I don't also get the negativity here. Napoli won last year with 90 points, but judging by title contenders now, I hardly doubt that some team will collect more than 85 points. All of the teams look prone to losing points against smaller clubs, even Milan despite their results so far. Roma and Lazio won't be at the race, that is quite obvious. Atalanta are too inconsistent as well. Jube are relying too much on Chiesa and Vlahovic, and Napoli are a huge mess right now. It seems that it will be between us and Milan.

 

[Besnik]

Squads in 2010 vs squads in 2023? Come on...

Completely different setup.

Top teams have had more depth since the mid 2010s because those that can outspend just buy everyone and they rot on the bench instead of play for teams a click below.

With 5 subs these days there's an even bigger need.

Our squad is not deep. It's deeper than what Inzaghi first found here at some positions, but it's not deep. We need to be very lucky if we want to compete at all fronts.
If we only intend to compete for Scudetto then sure, we're deep enough.

Tell me last time we had a better squad depth and quality since 2009/10 squad?

I already said that it's not ideal but at the same time is much better to what has been in previous seasons and also is good enough to remain a competitive side in every competition we are in.

This team is already one of favourites to win CL, no matter the circumstances created over the past 10 days. Not always the best team in paper wins. Limone has created a strong group that can do damage to any of the elite teams in Europe, let alone in Italy.

It's just a difficult period that we will get through it very soon.

 

[Kova10]

I don't also get the negativity here. Napoli won last year with 90 points, but judging by title contenders now, I hardly doubt that some team will collect more than 85 points. All of the teams look prone to losing points against smaller clubs, even Milan despite their results so far. Roma and Lazio won't be at the race, that is quite obvious. Atalanta are too inconsistent as well. Jube are relying too much on Chiesa and Vlahovic, and Napoli are a huge mess right now. It seems that it will be between us and Milan.

Additionally except for last season we’ve learned in Italy that you have to wait until the start of March to really define who’s fighting for the title.

 

[vex]

Last season Napoli had 14 points after 6 games. 4 wins and 2 ties (Fiorentina 0-0, Lecce 1-1). I'm not saying we're gonna head for a win streak they had after those draws, but it's not like we're missing something out here. We're still at the top of the table.

Calma for fuck sake

Man, I wish I had your optimism and calmness to view this season as some kind of fresh start. I just see it as a continuation of previous two seasons where we showed similar patterns in the league.

And the way some of you describe the losses as bad luck or 9/10 we would be winning that... yeah, for me, that's a fundamental error that comes with inzaghi and his ways and not some part that lives outside. But I talked about that ad nauseam, so I will stop here.

We'll see, admittedly It's still early on, but when you watched something for three years in a row now and the team again starts behaving similarly to previous times when we had massive energy dumps I just can't help but think we are heading in the same direction. Btw, I really hope i m wrong and some of you end up being right...

 

[CafeCordoba]

I have the optimism for Scudetto. I'm not saying we're definitely gonna win it. It's just 6 rounds so making predictions now is just crap shoot. There's not even a trend yet because the sample size is so small. Let's wait a bit at least.

 

[bubba zanetti]

I have the optimism for Scudetto. I'm not saying we're definitely gonna win it. It's just 6 rounds so making predictions now is just crap shoot. There's not even a trend yet because the sample size is so small. Let's wait a bit at least.

But we have a trend. Last two seasons.

 

[Corrode]

no one apart from Italian and some glory hunter fans give a fuck on Scudetto title anyway. everybody know Serie A is a farmer league and no presitigious thing will be find there. regularly 4th place in serie ass should be enough for this decade.

 

[bubba zanetti]

no one apart from Italian and some glory hunter fans give a fuck on Scudetto title anyway. everybody know Serie A is a farmer league and no presitigious thing will be find there. regularly 4th place in serie ass should be enough for this decade.

So you wont mind if beelan gets that second star in the end of this season and not us? Cmon man