Simone Inzaghi

[forzainter257]

Would we have won if the penalty was not awarded? Yes or no.

NO

 

[varmin]

I was very pissed with Inzaghi at the beginning of season, when I thought that we should defend our title. Now I see that this task will be almost impossible and I hope just to make it in top 4.

 

[dragondance]

Lol there are people expecting us to win Scudetto after selling two of our best players last season, missing another good one in Eriksen and reinvest very small amount. Be realistic boys. Look at juve squad, they managed to use fucking Chiesa and Dybala as subs while we have to start Hakan and have no alternative to 35yo Dzeko. If we have the same squad like last season, you should demand Inzaghi to win, but it’s a hell lot worse now. Top 4 is a good result until we can invest more to improve the squad. I honestly think your godly Conte will do a lot worse with the current squad.
Inter were in control and should have won the match without that unlucky penalty.

 

[PHM1605]

Lol there are people expecting us to win Scudetto after selling two of our best players last season, missing another good one in Eriksen and reinvest very small amount. Be realistic boys. Look at juve squad, they managed to use fucking Chiesa and Dybala as subs while we have to start Hakan and have no alternative to 35yo Dzeko. If we have the same squad like last season, you should demand Inzaghi to win, but it’s a hell lot worse now. Top 4 is a good result until we can invest more to improve the squad. I honestly think your godly Conte will do a lot worse with the current squad.
Inter were in control and should have won the match without that unlucky penalty.

Please excuse for SEVEN points behind fucking Milan. They sold two of their best players last season too. And their missing list is almost enough to ensemble a lineup.

The rest of our team aren't nobody. They won Scudetto some months ago. You can whine about the age factor Dzeko 35yo -> Lukaku at the latter stage of the season, not now. Dzeko is performing much better than Lukaku ffs.

Come on man, nobody complains finishing below Jube. But Milan & Napoli. Being lead by two coaches fifers considered as losers (Pioli and Spalletti), with inferior squad. How do you call Inzaghi?!?

 

[CafeCordoba]

Calm your tits, we've played 9 rounds. It was the same situation year ago. 25p Milan, 18p Inter.

 

[king_elnino]

i still believe in him…

 

[varmin]

Please excuse for SEVEN points behind fucking Milan. They sold two of their best players last season too. And their missing list is almost enough to ensemble a lineup.

The rest of our team aren't nobody. They won Scudetto some months ago. You can whine about the age factor Dzeko 35yo -> Lukaku at the latter stage of the season, not now. Dzeko is performing much better than Lukaku ffs.

Come on man, nobody complains finishing below Jube. But Milan & Napoli. Being lead by two coaches fifers considered as losers (Pioli and Spalletti), with inferior squad. How do you call Inzaghi?!?

Don't forget that actually we've changed our style of football despite keeping the same formation. This definitely affected the results of the team. Dzeko could be better than Lukaku for now, but Dumbfries and Hakan are inferior to Hakimi and Eriksen.
Milan had started strong last season as well, but then everybody knows what happened. Napoli actually have a very balanced team and if Oshimen was in the same form last year, they would have been a title contender.

 

[PHM1605]

Calm your tits, we've played 9 rounds. It was the same situation year ago. 25p Milan, 18p Inter.

This season we have two teams at 25p, not only Milan. And Milan is currently not helped by bullshit penalties. Twice harder.

Don't forget that actually we've changed our style of football despite keeping the same formation. This definitely affected the results of the team. Dzeko could be better than Lukaku for now, but Dumbfries and Hakan are inferior to Hakimi and Eriksen.
Milan had started strong last season as well, but then everybody knows what happened. Napoli actually have a very balanced team and if Oshimen was in the same form last year, they would have been a title contender.

Napoli does change the coach too, first season too. What's the excuse now?
I am not saying our squad is not weaker. I am saying even if it is weaker, still superior to other teams', except Juve.

You know where this okayish attitude will lead us to? Let's see:

- "It's okay to draw against Roma. That's a derby and anything can happens"
- "It's okay to draw or lose at Jube. They have the ref, Dybala & Chiesa on the bench bla bla"
- "It's okay to draw Milan. They are in great form and pens..."
- "It's also okay to draw Atalanta and Napoli. Playing at Bergamo and Maradona never easy"

See? This will lead us to where Lazio was. Every hard match would have perfect excuses not to win. But if we don't win, we lose a race because other teams would win against each other eventually.

 

[Il Drago]

Till the international break we have:

@Empoli
Udinese
@Sheriff
@Milan

Four must win games if we want to remain in the mix for CL and Serie A.

Good performances don't suffice anymore. We need to deliver.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Yeah four must wins as we indeed need to keep up. I feel specially Napoli won't slow down.

That derby della Madonnina will be fucking epic. Milan has looked total shit for the past two games and still managed to grab two wins. We need to destroy those cocks.

 

[rfU]

Coaching and tactics aside, it is clear to me, especially in big games, that our players are in need of hand-holding and coddling because otherwise we crumble under the weight and pressure.

I thought after a major trophy we would have that long-sought winning mentality to control and see out games but it just hasn't happened. A lot of unnecessarily tense and nervy moments with no one willing to take charge. Handa and DeFry have been especially disappointing in that respect and poor Bastoni is having to pay the price.

Props to Conte for getting it done some how. Inzaghi tho

 

[Harpsabu]

Let's look at the last few games.

Last night vs juve - he outcoached allegri. Juve didn't do shit all game until the shit penalty. Nothing inzaghi can do about that. His fault is possibly even playing dumfries at such a big moment, but it's an individual mistake, inzaghi was perfect until this.

Atalanta - di Marco missed penalty at the end of the game. That goes in we win.

Lazio - we were really comfortable again until a silly bastoni penalty then when di Marco stays down like an idiot and lazio played on. We lost our heads, but we were comfortable until that point.

I think inzaghi has set the team up well. We've never really been outclassed. One or two tweaks and we start to win these games. The main pressure for him now though is that we need to win them from now. 4 must win games coming up.

 

[Batman]

What are you talking about? Juventus had won 6 games on the trot. They are 3 points behind us. How is that a bad run? They recently beat Chelsea and Roma. We were on our way to the same type of 1-0 victory they have had to suffer for in recent matches. In fact we gave up less today then they did in those games. There was no Chillieni celebration from a last ditch tackle. The difference is the referee gave them an out today. The same way they did last year.

I’m not a conspiracy theory guy by any means. I don’t think that Calciopoli is still in effect but I do think old habits die hard. There is a culture in Italy where Juventus always gets the benefit of the doubt. If you’re going to make a call against Juventus you better be 1000% right. Any gray area is not allowed. No one in the league would have gotten that pen against Juve, especially not in the Allianz.

I totally disagree. Nowadays pens are given in even lamer situations than that one, and for any team in Serie A. I’m sure you are aware of that.

They are not in a bad run, that’s fine, they won 1-0 against Chelsea and Roma (lol the side that lost 6-1 to some random Norwegian team), that’s fine. But did you even watch the match? Did you see how unthreatening they were? They could string few passes together, they looked disorganized, they lost a player very early due to injury. Not to mention having two of their best players on the bench for the majority of the game. Isn’t all this an advantage worth taking care of? To hold the 1-0 lead in atrocious way like that is just not the right mentality.

Let’s be honest, not even Calciopoli can save this shitty Juve team. We fucked up let’s just admit it for once.

 

[Alex de Large]

With Hakimi, Lukaku and Eriksen instead of Donkey Dumfries, Useless Hakan and Finished Dzeko, right now we would be only 2-3 points behind Napoli. Can't blame the coach for the shitty transfer market.

 

[wera]

It's not just what we did on the market, we'd still have the same coach if we didn't sell the 2 players. We are just not a club that makes enough money on it's own, I don't think we are operating on any kind of substantial profit.

 

[Il Drago]

Dzeko has scored 7 goals in 9 league games, 4 of which were quite decisive. He isn't the problem. We miss Hakimi and Eriksen a lot more than we miss Lukaku.

 

[forzainter257]

With Hakimi, Lukaku and Eriksen instead of Donkey Dumfries, Useless Hakan and Finished Dzeko, right now we would be only 2-3 points behind Napoli. Can't blame the coach for the shitty transfer market.

I don't know about others, but I do realize Inzaghi has a relatively weaker side than what we had last season. You can lose against rubentus or Lazio - it's completely ok. The question is how you lose. Our team didn't want or was scared to attack.

 

[Harpsabu]

Dzeko has scored 7 goals in 9 league games, 4 of which were quite decisive. He isn't the problem. We miss Hakimi and Eriksen a lot more than we miss Lukaku.

Lukakus counter strength is missed. But the biggest regret is lukaku not leaving earlier and keeping hakimi. Such a fucking shame

 

[thatdude]

I totally disagree. Nowadays pens are given in even lamer situations than that one, and for any team in Serie A. I’m sure you are aware of that.

They are not in a bad run, that’s fine, they won 1-0 against Chelsea and Roma (lol the side that lost 6-1 to some random Norwegian team), that’s fine. But did you even watch the match? Did you see how unthreatening they were? They could string few passes together, they looked disorganized, they lost a player very early due to injury. Not to mention having two of their best players on the bench for the majority of the game. Isn’t all this an advantage worth taking care of? To hold the 1-0 lead in atrocious way like that is just not the right mentality.

Let’s be honest, not even Calciopoli can save this shitty Juve team. We fucked up let’s just admit it for once.

Agree to disagree I guess. Roma got embarrassed midweek but took points off Napoli this weekend. They are still a tricky side to play against in Serie A and should have equalized against Juve. If you look at the points total against the “big teams” Juve has more in less games. We played a good match yesterday, the best of the Inzaghi era thus far.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Let's look at the last few games.

Last night vs juve - he outcoached allegri. Juve didn't do shit all game until the shit penalty. Nothing inzaghi can do about that. His fault is possibly even playing dumfries at such a big moment, but it's an individual mistake, inzaghi was perfect until this.

Atalanta - di Marco missed penalty at the end of the game. That goes in we win.

Lazio - we were really comfortable again until a silly bastoni penalty then when di Marco stays down like an idiot and lazio played on. We lost our heads, but we were comfortable until that point.

I think inzaghi has set the team up well. We've never really been outclassed. One or two tweaks and we start to win these games. The main pressure for him now though is that we need to win them from now. 4 must win games coming up.

Exactly my thoughts.

Despite we drew with Juve, this game proved that we can actually play defensively. Our offence is limited in that case of course like talked here before (at least I have ). Inzaghi has realized we cannot attack mindlessly because we're getting burned in defence. That proves me Inzaghi ain't no idealistic idiot.

And it's not like he has some prime tools at his disposal in our offensive game. Dzeko is great at the moment, scored again, now in a big game. Lautaro unfortunately cannot do shit by himself. Calhanoglu is underwhelming as hell. Dumfries ain't Hakimi, nowhere close. Barella and Perisic are good. Correa and Sanchez, so far, pretty meh. That's about it.

What we can should train more are the counter-attacks. How to act in those situations. Because we are a team which can turn a very promising counter-attack to a backpass to own goalie in 5 seconds. That shit needs to stop. Transition game is so important in today's football that we simply need to be better at that. I'm sure Inzaghi is a right coach to train that shit.