Simone Inzaghi

[disait]

The problem with his tactics is that everything has to click for it to be a succes. It's a high risk, high reward type coach.

The real question is, as we see this season, if that is sustainable for the club. They can not provide the team with much needed reinforcements to fit his style. The players that clicked so good are just becoming too old right now.

He has done a good job, but surely not a great job as an Inter coach. 1 championship in 4 years ,with a squad that has the best quality in Italy, is not a good look when you look at it objectively.

I don't put the blame on him either, but I think its has became more of a mismatch as the tenure has been going on. I just don't hope the club is blinded by the great football he has shown and the Champions League finale we played

 

[YoramG]

Im so sick of reading the best squad in Italy.

Yes, obviously we have the best starting 11, but our bench options have almost always been shit. Far, far overrated by almost everybody.

 

[IM21]

Im so sick of reading the best squad in Italy.

Yes, obviously we have the best starting 11, but our bench options have almost always been shit. Far, far overrated by almost everybody.

who then has the better bench?

Inzaghi has the same problem as Conte. When plan A ain't woring he shits his pants, as there ain't no plan B.

i am 100% sure that even a terrorist like Allegri would have won a Scudetto with this inter team in 4 years.

 

[disait]

Im so sick of reading the best squad in Italy.

Yes, obviously we have the best starting 11, but our bench options have almost always been shit. Far, far overrated by almost everybody.

So we didn't waste a scudetto against an inferior Milan side? We didn't underperform two seasons ago in the league?

Easy to nitpick a part of argument, but who really had better quality overal in the last few years?

We depend on the players like Hakan for the exact type of football we play, but when he's not here we do not try to change it much. Why do we not play different when a Zielinksi plays?

I just think that Inzaghi is tactical very fragile. Great when it goes his way, but when it doesn't he looks kinda clueless.

The bigger teams clearly figured us out this year. It's frustrating to see. It's like we giving away points

 

[PHM1605]

So we probably lose the Scudetto?!? With many reasons.
- 3 points gap obviously
- The more it goes the more tired we will be comparing to Napoli
- Against Conte
- Their schedule is ridiculously easy, just check it. Our is really hard...full team Fiorentina next lmao.
- Inzaghi history of crumbling after the first lossses. We have had two already. Too late to wait for his red-form period again..hopefully it comes soon enough in CL

 

[IM21]

yea, the schedule will once again be the excuse... how can teams in other leagues be this good with the same schedule... either start rotating more, or don't talk about having a great ''B team'' on the bench, cause you for sure ain't trusting most of those guys. Fucking Mkhitaryan has to start vs Venezia and Cagliari for gods sake.

 

[Nyall]

The sun will shine tomorrow but holy fuck what an awful game.

 

[Nyall]

yea, the schedule will once again be the excuse... how can teams in other leagues be this good with the same schedule... either start rotating more, or don't talk about having a great ''B team'' on the bench, cause you for sure ain't trusting most of those guys. Fucking Mkhitaryan has to start vs Venezia and Cagliari for gods sake.

One other team is better than us in the league and they don’t play in the champions league.

 

[PHM1605]

yea, the schedule will once again be the excuse... how can teams in other leagues be this good with the same schedule... either start rotating more, or don't talk about having a great ''B team'' on the bench, cause you for sure ain't trusting most of those guys. Fucking Mkhitaryan has to start vs Venezia and Cagliari for gods sake.

No excuse here bro. We have played worse even with all the "bottom teams quota" used up, in previous months. So Napoli deserves their chiller ending.

 

[Armes]

The sun will shine tomorrow but holy fuck what an awful game.

I look outside I don't even have sun. -10 and snow and grey

On Inzaghi: I remember well there was a time where we went into full crisis mode. Italian press, forum, everyone criticized him and wanted him fired but he turned it around exactly when it mattered.

 

[RotterdamNerazzurri]

Im so sick of reading the best squad in Italy.

Yes, obviously we have the best starting 11, but our bench options have almost always been shit. Far, far overrated by almost everybody.

Entirely true. We only have 15 / 16 players who fully deserve to be Here (besides our starting 11, Carlos, Bisseck, Acerbi, Darmian and possibly Zielinski and Zalweski. Our biggest problem is no real depth in midfield and do depth in attack at all. But we stil have the best swuad in Italy (and it’s not even close).

Conte had the same problem hasn’t he? He’s starting Juan Jesus ffs. Or has to bring Raspadori or Simeone as strikers from the bench ( 1 goal in 15 and 1 goal in 20 matches).

 

[RotterdamNerazzurri]

Also this whole ‘depth’ debate is kinda irrelevant (to a certain extent).

There is no team in the world who doesn’t compromise on quality when they don’t play their 3/4 best players. To draw a comparison; van Dijk, Salah and Mac Allister from Liverpool played +\- 500 minutes more this season than Lautaro, Barella and Bastoni. Valverde played 600 more than Barella and Mbappe 300 more than Lauti etc.

Yeah we do have shit depth (especially in midfield and attack) and have absolutely nothing to bring from our bench when we need to (our biggest problem imo) but I have a feeling we do rotate our stars to often given the fact their back-ups are absolute gargbage too.

 

[Kramerica Industries]

Honestly I think this team needs a smack in the ass. If they cant get up for Monday and take all three points convincingly after being humiliated by an average team it aint happening this year. Obviously the game at the Maradona is the most important left but I think were gonna see if were truly capable of winning the title Monday. I expect Barella or Lautauro to absolutely destroy this team in the locker room. I'm very seldom not mad at a loss but how tf can you even be mad when you play that fucking shit?

This is the "not mad, just disappointed" thing, which is actually worse in a lot of ways.

The easiest part of a game like this is that, when you get your ass kicked, there's no real "what if's". I mean, we can question lineup choices I'm sure (I haven't read the entire match thread but I'm sure the Frattesi and Bisseck decisions have been thoroughly raked, and I've grabbed one of my own too after having just gotten done watching that), but when you lose 3-0, when you never create a worthwhile chance all game - 0.59 xG, worst of the season in Serie A - and get completely outplayed, you have to take for what it is and be better for the next game. Can't blame the poor result on wretched luck like we suffered at the hands of Milan a few days ago.

But then the question becomes just how were we that fucking awful tonight? As always, likely some combination of factors. And Inzaghi has his blame to bear in it as well, but he's not responsible for the complete lack of squad depth and he's not responsible for the complete lack of athleticism or 1v1 ability this team has. We're so reliant on our patterns of play and passing sequences to create chances for us, but when that isn't working? Or when we have to make some changes in midfield for the sake of rotation and suddenly we have someone who's not as finely tuned or as capable of keeping our structure flowing? We're in trouble. No two ways around it.

So yeah, I'm not "mad" either, but deeply troubled all the same. Some of these are problems we're simply not going to be able to fix this season. We're either going to force our way over the finish line in spite of them, or crumble due to them. 8/15 points from the last five games troublingly suggests we're doing more crumbling.

No the circumstances are anything but easy. But I can hardly accept loosing a Scudetto to this Napoli after that Milan in ‘22.

2022 was its own thing that's been discussed enough times, but I'm just going to point out once again that Napoli - currently on an 89-point pace - winning the Scudetto with that point tally or better would be much more a matter of them simply winning it more than us losing it. I'll still say that even after last night's game. 89 points or better has only once failed to win the Scudetto, ever.

There's no doubt Napoli benefits a lot from a much lighter schedule than we have, and if they had our schedule they wouldn't be near their currents points tally. But it just is what it is, and we have to deal with it.

 

[CafeCordoba]

This is the "not mad, just disappointed" thing, which is actually worse in a lot of ways.

The easiest part of a game like this is that, when you get your ass kicked, there's no real "what if's". I mean, we can question lineup choices I'm sure (I haven't read the entire match thread but I'm sure the Frattesi and Bisseck decisions have been thoroughly raked, and I've grabbed one of my own too after having just gotten done watching that), but when you lose 3-0, when you never create a worthwhile chance all game - 0.59 xG, worst of the season in Serie A - and get completely outplayed, you have to take for what it is and be better for the next game. Can't blame the poor result on wretched luck like we suffered at the hands of Milan a few days ago.

But then the question becomes just how were we that fucking awful tonight? As always, likely some combination of factors. And Inzaghi has his blame to bear in it as well, but he's not responsible for the complete lack of squad depth and he's not responsible for the complete lack of athleticism or 1v1 ability this team has. We're so reliant on our patterns of play and passing sequences to create chances for us, but when that isn't working? Or when we have to make some changes in midfield for the sake of rotation and suddenly we have someone who's not as finely tuned or as capable of keeping our structure flowing? We're in trouble. No two ways around it.

So yeah, I'm not "mad" either, but deeply troubled all the same. Some of these are problems we're simply not going to be able to fix this season. We're either going to force our way over the finish line in spite of them, or crumble due to them. 8/15 points from the last five games troublingly suggests we're doing more crumbling.



2022 was its own thing that's been discussed enough times, but I'm just going to point out once again that Napoli - currently on an 89-point pace - winning the Scudetto with that point tally or better would be much more a matter of them simply winning it more than us losing it. I'll still say that even after last night's game. 89 points or better has only once failed to win the Scudetto, ever.

There's no doubt Napoli benefits a lot from a much lighter schedule than we have, and if they had our schedule they wouldn't be near their currents points tally. But it just is what it is, and we have to deal with it.

Well said. This performance went so over the line of "goddamn, what if Hakan didn't make that error, or what if Bisseck marked Kean properly". We were so pathetic that it was beyond saveable if one or two plays went differently.

Inzaghi is the main responsible, the coach always is. But as you point out, we are bearing the fruits of the lack of depth now. It has been accumulating all season and now it's hitting us. I think that Inzaghi has overused our starters. But the bench players are not good enough, and that's the reason Inzaghi has used the starters. He needs the results every week. He has rotated in CL, which worked brilliantly, but the quality gaps start to be seen in these matches.

The team was so shit apart from maybe Lautaro, Thuram and De Vrij that it cannot be attributed to few players. Lack of energy and drive was too visible. We don't have game-breaking players who could decide these type of shitty away games on a constistent basis. Inzaghi wanted Gudmundsson last summer to get a bit different kind of forward, to get a bit of a different edge to our game, but he was denied.

Depth is just not enough for our targets. Our forwards are playing too much. If they are not doing enough, there's no one you can bring in to get some new energy. Taremi has been a failure of a signing, that can be said now, after 6 months of football. He didn't bring that experience which would result in extra goals (not necessarily even by him but team playing around him). Arnautovic has been poorer this season than the previous one, which is pretty incredible. Backup wingbacks need their side's mezzala too much. Player like Barella needs to be playing all the time. If Calhanoglu is missing, Barella needs to work extra time.

Our system relies that everyone is involved and have enough capacities to fulfill the duties. One could argue that "then change the system" but I don't think it's that easy. And to play at top level, if we've played some system which is "less demanding for everyone", I think it requires better individual players. Which Inter cannot afford to a) acquire (transfer fees) b) keep (salaries)

 

[Il Drago]

Considering how Gudmundsson is doing at Fiorentina he was a bullet dodged.

Constantly injured, zero assists and 2 of his 4 Serie A goals are from penalties.

Very little impact for his high cost.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Considering how Gudmundsson is doing at Fiorentina he was a bullet dodged.

Constantly injured, zero assists and 2 of his 4 Serie A goals are from penalties.

Very little impact for his high cost.

That was not the point. Point was Inzaghi wanted something new to our squad. Be it Gudmundsson, be it someone else. Taremi was agreed beforehand, but he wanted something more and didn't get it.

 

[.h.]

That was not the point. Point was Inzaghi wanted something new to our squad. Be it Gudmundsson, be it someone else. Taremi was agreed beforehand, but he wanted something more and didn't get it.

Tbf because we couldn't offload either Arna or Correa. We have both budget and squad spots invested in them.

 

[PHM1605]

We don't have the squad thick enough for 3/4 fronts, mister. Please learn from Conte. He literally fielded a reserve team and ditched Coppa as soon as he had chance, Caprile Zerbin Gilmour... and all the scrubs. That's why he is the best league coach.

We, instead, are a new Icarus flying too close to the sun. The ridiculous Super Coppa Saudis tournament. Now, why the hell are we waiting not fielding our Primaveras in Coppa?!?

Champions League should be the only tournament beside Serie A we should put effort, simply because the cash flow is enough to compensate. For the rest, man, "only one match - only two matches... to get a trophy" all such crap, throw it to the bin. Nobody cares about such mickey mouse "trophies", neither does sponsorship. One match less playing saves precious gas for the next Serie A/ Champions League match.

Some fans are greedy "We are Inter we should win all matches" but the same ones are saying "Inter doesn't have a good squad", ironically. The reality is, we should not try to win all matches when the owner doesn't invest. Do Napoli fans care their team lost 1-3 vs Lazio in Coppa? No, they are praising Conte as a god to win their 2nd Scudetto, two times better than us.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Tbf because we couldn't offload either Arna or Correa. We have both budget and squad spots invested in them.

Yes I know.

My point still stands.

 

[dax21]

Defeats happen, it's not the end of the world. I do wish that Inzaghi was a bit more bold and creative in his problem solving. With 3 strikers that are basically not functioning, how has he not already attempted to use Frattesi as a makeshift forward? I'm not even one of the people who believe it will certainly work, but given how glaring of an issue our striker depth is, surely it's worth trying against a weaker squad, once?

He was overly eager to put Hakan back in and given the way we played versus Milan and now Fiorentina, we should have kept Asllani with Hakan gradually getting minutes and returning to full strength. Now you have the worst case scenario, Hakan is in a poor streak and Asllani's momentum is stopped.

Dimarco is spent and he should be rested for a game or two if possible, he's been physically in a rut for a while and when you are physically not doing well you also can't be doing well mentally either.

We are now entering a tricky point of the season where it comes down to resource management and I don't see us finishing strong unless Inzaghi dares to experiment at least a tiny bit. And even if he gets it wrong, given the state of our bench and last two mercatos I am sure that management will not hold it against him, nor will the fans.