Simone Inzaghi

Will Simone Inzaghi win a Scudetto at Inter?


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Common mate. Atalanta beat them like 6 months ago. Totally different form, competition and stadium. This shoulds like the most retarded fans of Jube, which are now mocking Inter, because Jube won vs the worst City ever, while we lost and tie City earlier.
How is that similar to City? Kusen were unbeatable last year. Their form now can't get any higher.

I don't say we surely win Kusen, or any teams. My point is if we fielded our strongest XI, we would have got a 50% chance. If we fielded a bench squad, we get 0%. That's the definition of throwing the match away. 0 shot on target + 0 point and you say "I agree with this"...not everyone is such optimistic.
 

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Why draw vs loss only? Atalanta hammered them 3-0, so our starting XI could definitely win. Kusen are far from unbeatable.

Rotation might be right had we had a tighter schedule like Lazio i.e. to close to recover. But that's not the case; our two matches are 6 days apart. Resting too much after a loss is reducing the momentum more than helping imo.

Leverkusen have played probably something like 40-45 games in the calendar year 2024 and you picked one of the two singular games where they lost. A game played at a neutral venue, Wirtz was injured/ineffective, and several months ago. This isn't a fair comparison.
 

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Yes, fielding the best lineup wouldn't have secured even a draw. Inzaghi is playing the long game. Leverkusen is a tough team, they played at home, they were more desperate for the points.
 
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I had similar discussion when Sociedad last year. Instead of one match at a time, people are happy with a lose and "assume" that lower teams "on paper" are where to gain points. But you guys forget the more pressure we have the more frozen players' legs would be. PSV lesson was still there.

Sorry I don't buy this at all. After the last important match vs Monaco we will have fucking Milan 3 days later. Somehow 6 days rest versus Lazio is trickier.

Watch we crash out of top 8 and add two additional City matches, eventually out. Want a rest? Do it after we are safe enough. Don't count chickens before hatching. One point against Kusen would be huge because we keep a direct top8 competitor 3 points away from us with two matches left. Let alone three.
 
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I had similar discussion when Sociedad last year. Instead of one match at a time, people are happy with a lose and "assume" that lower teams "on paper" are where to gain points. But you guys forget the more pressure we have the more frozen players' legs would be. PSV lesson was still there.

Sorry I don't buy this at all. After the last important match vs Monaco we will have fucking Milan 3 days later. Somehow 6 days rest versus Lazio is trickier.

Watch we crash out of top 8 and add two additional City matches, eventually out. Want a rest? Do it after we are safe enough. Don't count chickens before hatching. One point against Kusen would be huge because we keep a direct top8 competitor 3 points away from us with two matches left. Let alone three.

This is such a crazy fuckin' overreaction, it's nuts. And you want to mention PSV from 2018? Look at our match day squad from that game. Literally only one player in the 2024-'25 team played in that game (De Vrij) and Lautaro was on the bench. That's it. Those are the only two players still here who were with the team in that game. That was pre-Conte FFS.

And City? You're losing your shit over Inzaghi punting one away game in the Champions League, have you fucking seen City's form in the last 10 games? If we'd had a 10-game run like that this forum would be on DEFCON 1 mode with every player thread being in the Flamers Paradise by this point.

If we miss out on top-8, it's because we failed to beat Sparta and Monaco (at San Siro) in the last two games, and if that happens then we've clearly got other problems to deal with. It won't be because we failed to get a result away to Leverkusen. Leverkusen had won their previous home games as well and that included a 1-0 win over a much-stronger Milan XI than the one we threw out there, and they still had to work harder to get the win against us than they did against Milan.

We take care of business - and we're entirely expected to - we'll get top-8. It's entirely in our control. Fuckin' lose me with this chicken little bullshit. We've won two Scudetti since 2021, we've been in a Champions League final, people need to stop acting like pussies about this team.

EDIT - oh, and by the way, I just want to highlight one other thing written here quickly:

Sorry I don't buy this at all. After the last important match vs Monaco we will have fucking Milan 3 days later. Somehow 6 days rest versus Lazio is trickier.

Granted, we don't know what the table will look like come Feb. 1, but we do know what the table looks like right now:

5. Lazio: 10-1-4 | 31 points | +13 GD (tied on points with Inter)
7. Milan: 6-4-4 | 22 points | +8 GD (-9 on Inter)

I realize the rivalry of course, but what the fuck are we worrying about Milan in any way other than it being a derby match? Because I can tell you that Lazio are rather comfortably ahead of Milan in the table right now. I can tell you that Lazio would move in front of us with a win on Monday head-to-head. I can tell you that the away game to Lazio has generally been a trickier game for us in recent years than playing Milan has (either as the away team or the home team). So even if Inzaghi might subconsciously be giving more weight to the Lazio game given his Laziale background or not, statistically and table-wise speaking, that is the more important game, the "trickier" game of the two right now.

Fucking Milan complex, man. They're having a shit season, they beat us one time in the last seven tries, and they're somehow in our heads here.
 
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How is that similar to City? Kusen were unbeatable last year. Their form now can't get any higher.

I don't say we surely win Kusen, or any teams. My point is if we fielded our strongest XI, we would have got a 50% chance. If we fielded a bench squad, we get 0%. That's the definition of throwing the match away. 0 shot on target + 0 point and you say "I agree with this"...not everyone is such optimistic.
Agreed i see no reason why Inzaghi aimed a point when Lazio match is six days away. We should have aimed for 3 points. Now we get more pressure and you know how our players react to a big pressure. We could have avoided such pressure. The last two CL games aren't easy at all, it's worrying tbh. Hopefully we can beat those two and secure top 8.
 

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If we can't beat the 16rh and 26th? Places teams we don't deserve to go through
 

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Agreed i see no reason why Inzaghi aimed a point when Lazio match is six days away. We should have aimed for 3 points. Now we get more pressure and you know how our players react to a big pressure. We could have avoided such pressure. The last two CL games aren't easy at all, it's worrying tbh. Hopefully we can beat those two and secure top 8.

Seemed to handle it just fine last year when they only led the league by one point with Juventus coming to San Siro. Seemed to handle it just fine playing the first leg of the Euroderby with a pro-Milan crowd and scored twice in the first 12 minutes to completely shutdown that tie before it even got going.

You can't win the Champions League without facing big pressure at some point so, you know what? Fine. Lets see them handle so-called "big pressure" right now. It'll better prepare them for what comes after.
 
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This is such a crazy fuckin' overreaction, it's nuts. And you want to mention PSV from 2018? Look at our match day squad from that game. Literally only one player in the 2024-'25 team played in that game (De Vrij) and Lautaro was on the bench. That's it. Those are the only two players still here who were with the team in that game. That was pre-Conte FFS.

And City? You're losing your shit over Inzaghi punting one away game in the Champions League, have you fucking seen City's form in the last 10 games? If we'd had a 10-game run like that this forum would be on DEFCON 1 mode with every player thread being in the Flamers Paradise by this point.

If we miss out on top-8, it's because we failed to beat Sparta and Monaco (at San Siro) in the last two games, and if that happens then we've clearly got other problems to deal with. It won't be because we failed to get a result away to Leverkusen. Leverkusen had won their previous home games as well and that included a 1-0 win over a much-stronger Milan XI than the one we threw out there, and they still had to work harder to get the win against us than they did against Milan.

We take care of business - and we're entirely expected to - we'll get top-8. It's entirely in our control. Fuckin' lose me with this chicken little bullshit. We've won two Scudetti since 2021, we've been in a Champions League final, people need to stop acting like pussies about this team.

EDIT - oh, and by the way, I just want to highlight one other thing written here quickly:



Granted, we don't know what the table will look like come Feb. 1, but we do know what the table looks like right now:

5. Lazio: 10-1-4 | 31 points | +13 GD (tied on points with Inter)
7. Milan: 6-4-4 | 22 points | +8 GD (-9 on Inter)

I realize the rivalry of course, but what the fuck are we worrying about Milan in any way other than it being a derby match? Because I can tell you that Lazio are rather comfortably ahead of Milan in the table right now. I can tell you that Lazio would move in front of us with a win on Monday head-to-head. I can tell you that the away game to Lazio has generally been a trickier game for us in recent years than playing Milan has (either as the away team or the home team). So even if Inzaghi might subconsciously be giving more weight to the Lazio game given his Laziale background or not, statistically and table-wise speaking, that is the more important game, the "trickier" game of the two right now.

Fucking Milan complex, man. They're having a shit season, they beat us one time in the last seven tries, and they're somehow in our heads here.
I am not mentioning the Etihad draw ffs, happy with that match. The point is instead of trying our best once, you are risking adding two extremely harder matches (like City in the bottom 24-pots).

I was roasted exactly like this a year ago when criticised Inzaghi. Instead of trying our best once vs Benfica OR Sociedad, we choose Atletico Madrid. But people failed to see the difference between the probability of picking Copenhagen-PSG and ATM-Real Madrid spectrum, what should I say more?

Yeah Milan is not anything to be scared of. ATM was nothing special too, right? Some kind of arrogant shit. You ignore the most important part: THREE DAYS vs SIX DAYS rest. Heavy legs cannot beat Frosinone, let alone a derby. They are the only team that could beat Inter strongest XI. Not Leverkusen, Arsenal, Juventus nor ManCity, but that pathetic Milan.
 

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I am not mentioning the Etihad draw ffs, happy with that match. The point is instead of trying our best once, you are risking adding two extremely harder matches (like City in the bottom 24-pots).

I was roasted exactly like this a year ago when criticised Inzaghi. Instead of trying our best once vs Benfica OR Sociedad, we choose Atletico Madrid. But people failed to see the difference between the probability of picking Copenhagen-PSG and ATM-Real Madrid spectrum, what should I say more?

Yeah Milan is not anything to be scared of. ATM was nothing special too, right? Some kind of arrogant shit. You ignore the most important part: THREE DAYS vs SIX DAYS rest. Heavy legs cannot beat Frosinone, let alone a derby. They are the only team that could beat Inter strongest XI. Not Leverkusen, Arsenal, Juventus nor ManCity, but that pathetic Milan.

1. The last group stage game last year was the home game against Real Sociedad - emphasis on home - where we knew going in that a tiebreaker favored the Basque club. Inzaghi's lineup choices for that game were ultra curious (I can't remember our injury situation at the time) and failed to get the necessary win. That was on us. In the immediate retrospect, we kinda got away with it because Sociedad as group winners ended up drawing PSG - I know there's the argument about how the tilt of the draw would've been different if we were group winners, maybe so, but Sociedad draw PSG before our name was chosen or any of the other specific designations/restrictions applied, and we're deep into speculation territory anyway; I don't think it's unreasonable to say we would've drawn PSG had it been the other way around - but there was no way to know that would happen beforehand. I wasn't posting on the forum at the time, I would've probably agreed with you that Inzaghi's decisions in that case were more disagreeable, with the only defense being that game being scheduled between away trips to Napoli and Lazio (if I'm not mistaken) and Inzaghi having an obvious preference for the Scudetto.

2. I can't speak for others, but I said our tie with Atleti last year was a 50/50 (proof) so I certainly wasn't taking them for granted. I watch plenty of La Liga, I knew that Atleti team very well. It was the most evenly-balanced draw of the entire R16. And guess what? It would be hard to say a tie that ended 2-2 and decided on penalties wasn't pretty much a complete coin flip. What burned us was that Austrian donkey fucking up chance after chance in the first leg, but that was a reflection of our biggest problem at that level of football - depth. Atleti's forward options off the bench were Memphis Depay and Angel Correa, ours was fucking Marko Arnautovic. Enough said.

3. You are aware Milan will be going into that derby with the exact same circumstances as us, right? They'll be going into the final match day of the league phase, in all likelihood, one point behind us. Top-8 isn't a guarantee for us? Same must be said for them if they're -1 in the table. And while their opponent is a soft one, they at least have to travel for that game vs. us being at San Siro for both games, so no travel involved. It's dishonest to talk about the difficult circumstances we'll have to deal with and how that will create a tough situation for us going into the derby, and not acknowledge that Milan is in the exact same boat (and maybe worse; that one point behind us and logjam in that 2-12ish area of the table is going to make it more difficult for them to squeeze into the top-8). At least there's the slight chance still that we could have a top-8 spot clinched before we play Monaco, there's a 0% chance Milan are either clinched as a top-8 or confirmed as a play-off round team before that last match day, so they'll be forced to play their best XI three days (presumably) before the derby. Those heavy legs apply to them too.
 
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Seemed to handle it just fine last year when they only led the league by one point with Juventus coming to San Siro. Seemed to handle it just fine playing the first leg of the Euroderby with a pro-Milan crowd and scored twice in the first 12 minutes to completely shutdown that tie before it even got going.

You can't win the Champions League without facing big pressure at some point so, you know what? Fine. Lets see them handle so-called "big pressure" right now. It'll better prepare them for what comes after.
No, last year we reacted to it poorly in CL campaign. Idk if Inzaghi underestimated Leverkusen or aimed for a draw but we should field the best XI and try to get the most points we can get in Leverkusen. I believe we could get a win or get a draw if we took it seriously. We'll play the last 2 in hectic weeks, if we won or draw vs Leverkusen we can take one of these two in easy way.
 
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May come as a shock but sometime the other team screws up with your plans regardless of the tactics and players you use.
Agreed. But with our strongest XI the chance of getting screwed is smaller.
 

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May come as a shock but sometime the other team screws up with your plans regardless of the tactics and players you use.
Well said. The lack of credit Leverkusen gets in this thread (well, most in the match thread) is mindboggling. As if Inzaghi choosing the best lineup would have almost guaranteed us the win (or even a draw) which is obviously not the case. Would have tilted the odds but if there's a match we could lose, it was this one.
 
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Well said. The lack of credit Leverkusen gets in this thread (well, most in the match thread) is mindboggling. As if Inzaghi choosing the best lineup would have almost guaranteed us the win (or even a draw) which is obviously not the case. Would have tilted the odds but if there's a match we could lose, it was this one.
Mindboggling because some of you are missing the point. The point is our strongest lineup is >>> our bench, irrelevant to Leverkusen or whoever.

Had that been against Young Boys and we threw points away for the sake of a match 6 days later I would criticise Inzaghi too.

Fielding bench against Leverkusen is disrespect and loser mentality at the same time. Leverkusen is strong so let's plan for Lazio first? Let's gain crucial points against Sparta and Monaco instead, as if some minor peasants? That's what called disrespect, not the other way round.
 
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Mindboggling because some of you are missing the point. The point is our strongest lineup is >>> our bench, irrelevant to Leverkusen or whoever.

Had that been against Young Boys and we threw points away for the sake of a match 6 days later I would criticise Inzaghi too.

Fielding bench against Leverkusen is disrespect and loser mentality at the same time. Leverkusen is strong so let's plan for Lazio first? Let's gain crucial points against Sparta and Monaco instead, as if some minor peasants? That's what called disrespect, not the other way round.
Exactly man, imagine if we played seriously and took control from the beginning like our usual game plan. We could get 3 points or a draw, player would be exhausted but hey we had 6 days to rest. Also we could bag some euros. Sure we might still losing but at least we tried.

There was 0 reason to play half-heartedly and saved energies for the upcoming game. It was suicidal and stupid. We threw away the match like it was some friendly or copa match. Terrible approach from Inzaghi. Now we'll have to work harder in super busy weeks for the last two cl games instead of taking Leverkusen seriously in easy week.
 

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He was saving energy for Lazio and Udine on Thursday. He wants to win Coppa.
 

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2 games in hand and 6 points off the top. We havent really shifted into gear yet either.
Not concerned.
 

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We definitely have the ability to win the league, but it's up to us to actually execute it. Bearing in mind we crushed the top team hopefully we do the same again when we face them, it's in our hands, but we need to actually do it
 

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Mindboggling because some of you are missing the point. The point is our strongest lineup is >>> our bench, irrelevant to Leverkusen or whoever.

Had that been against Young Boys and we threw points away for the sake of a match 6 days later I would criticise Inzaghi too.

Fielding bench against Leverkusen is disrespect and loser mentality at the same time. Leverkusen is strong so let's plan for Lazio first? Let's gain crucial points against Sparta and Monaco instead, as if some minor peasants? That's what called disrespect, not the other way round.
As I said in the podcast episode, to me the reason we played so poorly was because we played bench players. If that was your point, you didn't articulate it too well.

I don't get this "disrespect and loser mentality at the same time". That doesn't even make any sense. Inzaghi rotated because he could. We ended up losing. So what? Result was not a disaster.
 
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