Simone Inzaghi

[RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot]

Genoa result wasn’t entirely unexpected, although disappointing, as I can’t say we deserved more— we probably even deserved less.

We’re in a bit of a spot here with injuries and general fatigue. And we were inevitably going to cool off a bit eventually after a flying start. I just hope we’ve seen the worst or close to it and our fitness will be better in the 2nd half of the season. That and add a player or two who can actually lend a hand.

People who are panicking about our season need to chill. Not that there aren’t things to criticize, but we are at 45 pts from 18 games, 2pts ahead of Juve while also playing 6 more competitive fixtures than them. We also tied top of our CL group, only bested by +1 of GD. We’re not good enough to never drop points.

Overall, excellent first half to the season. If we can do 45pts from the next 20 matches, I guarantee you we are serie A champions. CL will depend heavily on luck, but if we can best Atletico, I have a good feeling we could go far again. Basically, KEEP CALM AND BACK THE BOYS.

 

[brehme1989]

Problem is that the management is also against using youth players.

If the plan was to give playing time to Casadei, Fabbian, Esposito, Carboni etc to get a better price for them, we'd do it.
We don't need to do that since we tend to deal with Serie A clubs who are aware of these talents so we pass the exposure risk of such players to them.

Inzaghi has used all young players available to the first team iirc in his time here.
Same with Conte.
Spalletti was the only one who didn't but that's basically just because of Zaniolo. And the stakes were higher in both his seasons.


We'll only use young players if we have no other options from the designated first team. You can argue that Inzaghi could use some, but it's not been necessary. But we might see some forwards soon.

 

[varmin]

I don't see a problem of not using young players. The problem is the over using of some of our oldest players, which lower the quality of team's performances at some point of the season.

 

[Sawyer]

Start using youth lose games Inzaghi at fault.

Don't use youth, complain he doesn't.

Why use youth if you don't need to and have better options.

I'm Simone I trust and will always back, he's given me no reason to doubt him and bought us all a lot of happiness.

 

[wera]

We made some miracles with all of the injuries, but now when we'll have most of our squad back I'm not sure if we'll have the same intensity and drive. This January could be the breaking point for us if Inzaghi doesn't check the players for not having the foot on the gas pedal.

Martinez and (possibly) Buchanan will be a difference, but some of our starters, like Mkhitaryan, Calhanoglu and Acerbi also need to be at their best again. I hope De Vrij and Lautaro come back refreshed and still at their best.

 

[bubba zanetti]

Well its make it or break it for Limone. If he fails to win scudetto this season, next season will be even harder, with beelan(with Don Cuntonio or De Zerbi) and rube stronger, so this season is best chance he got.

 

[IM21]

hey mate, how about you instruct your players not to stop playing after scoring a goal. would be nice.

 

[StefanNedelchev]

why the fuck did u sub thuram after we were only leading 1-0??

 

[RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot]

Hopefully this game forces him to reflect on our approach a bit. We are much more defensively sound than in our last 2 seasons, but if we concede a goal after taking a lead, I never have any confidence we can find a winner. We got it in the end against Verona, but there’s a big element of luck here let’s be honest. The lack of backup strikers is clearly a problem, but we need to find a better way to cope.

 

[bubba zanetti]

He is doing same mistakes over and over again. We aint winning shit this year if he doesnt change something. Its clearly that fucking Sanchez and Arnautović are bums and cant help us to reach our goals. Also he should try to rightly utilize Frattesi. Bottom line, Limone needs to figure it out cause this aint rube and dont expect to be lucky every fucking game.

 

[Nyall]

As usual here come the haters…

Players perform well he gets no credit, players play like shit he gets the blame.

Inter dominated that match, Verona got a lucky touch and scored from a guys knee. The game is done and frankly irrelevant. Play it again on another day at a better time and we’ll destroy them. Inter weren’t the lucky ones here Verona were. The ref was entirely in their favour.

48 points out of 57, is one of our highest point tallies ever, but yeah let’s sack him because another coach is totally gonna make Arnau and Sanchez useful

 

[forzainter257]

As usual here come the haters…

Players perform well he gets no credit, players play like shit he gets the blame.

Inter dominated that match, Verona got a lucky touch and scored from a guys knee. The game is done and frankly irrelevant. Play it again on another day at a better time and we’ll destroy them. Inter weren’t the lucky ones here Verona were. The ref was entirely in their favour.

48 points out of 57, is one of our highest point tallies ever, but yeah let’s sack him because another coach is totally gonna make Arnau and Sanchez useful

Players perform well because they are capable of doing so in the first place. The coach cannot upgrade their abilities at this stage, all he can do is build a system where all these players can fit in and perform at their best. He also has to make the right decisions, not the template ones which he makes just because it's written in his mind that whenever A happens, do the B. He also has to feel the match tension and be able to identify if the win is at risk or not. He doesn't have to make subs at a certain minute just because it's one of his template decisions he thinks will always work. He has to know when to NOT make any changes because it may kill the momentum. And when a coach lacks these simple, banal, trivial skills, players will not deliver their best.

 

[bubba zanetti]

Players perform well because they are capable of doing so in the first place. The coach cannot upgrade their abilities at this stage, all he can do is build a system where all these players can fit in and perform at their best. He also has to make the right decisions, not the template ones which he makes just because it's written in his mind that whenever A happens, do the B. He also has to feel the match tension and be able to identify if the win is at risk or not. He doesn't have to make subs at a certain minute just because it's one of his template decisions he thinks will always work. He has to know when to NOT make any changes because it may kill the momentum. And when a coach lacks these simple, banal, trivial skills, players will not deliver their best.

Your football knowledge is worse than Arnautović acceleration.

 

[CoolMan44]

Hopefully he takes this game as a sign for improvement. I understand there are some games where it may be 'beneficial' to 'manage' the game, hold onto the lead, and try to exploit opponent's mistakes, but this was not that kind of game imo. Instead of going for the second goal we put ourselves in a situation where we conceded and started panicking.

It's not even that Verona were sitting back, they actually played fairly high up for a big part of the first half. We sometimes tend to press high up in certain situations (our goal vs. Fiorentina came from that as an example), but today we almost did none of it.

 

[forzainter257]

Your football knowledge is worse than Arnautović acceleration.

 

[varmin]

Apparently, Mkhitaryan has the most minutes played of all of our midfielders. Barella and Hakan come after him with more than 1800 min each. From another hand, Frattesi has around 850 min, Asllani around 400, Klaassen - 340, Sensi - 65 and Agoume 4. I didn't check the other departments but this is clearly no rotation. We cannot rely on those 3 starters to be fresh and in form till the end of the season, if he continues this way.

 

[bubba zanetti]

Apparently, Mkhitaryan has the most minutes played of all of our midfielders. Barella and Hakan come after him with more than 1800 min each. From another hand, Frattesi has around 850 min, Asllani around 400, Klaassen - 340, Sensi - 65 and Agoume 4. I didn't check the other departments but this is clearly no rotation. We cannot rely on those 3 starters to be fresh and in form till the end of the season, if he continues this way.

Problem is that recent Hakan performances are worse than Mkhiki.

 

[Nyall]

Apparently, Mkhitaryan has the most minutes played of all of our midfielders. Barella and Hakan come after him with more than 1800 min each. From another hand, Frattesi has around 850 min, Asllani around 400, Klaassen - 340, Sensi - 65 and Agoume 4. I didn't check the other departments but this is clearly no rotation. We cannot rely on those 3 starters to be fresh and in form till the end of the season, if he continues this way.

Mikhi has been our most consistent midfielder. Why shouldn’t he get those minutes?

Inzaghis only mistake this season, is the 65 minutes that have been wasted on Sensi… we’d still be in the coppa if not for that

 

[CoolMan44]

Inzaghi definitely does need to rotate more, even just to keep players fresh. Last season we actually did pretty well when rotating in the last 3 months, and that was with giving starts to Asllani, Gagliardini, Correa, even Bellanova - players who hadn't started many games up until then.

It doesn't have to be full rotation, but having one of the 'bench' players get a start here and there. Typically, those players can do well when playing with the first team- our issue has been rotating half or most of the team which can lead to looking poor.

However, we're starting to look a bit slow at this point, so having a few players come in as starters here and there should not be an issue.

 

[varmin]

Mikhi has been our most consistent midfielder. Why shouldn’t he get those minutes?

Because he barely walked against Genoa. Same as Acerbi and Darmian.
We need some bench players to step in similar how Augusto and Bisseck did it. Although it was due to injuries of the starters. Inzaghi shall be a step ahead of the events if he wants that second star.