Milan - Inter (7 Nov 21) [1-1]

thatdude said:

It’s pretty clear that this team is lacking a protagonist. This whole team gives off big supporting actor energy, we’re like a great band with no lead singer. Our movie is lacking a main character. Say what you want about Lukaku but he was that guy for us.

This is unfortunately what happens when you sell your only natural goal scorer. Remember how the complaint about Lukaku was that he didn’t score enough “decisive” goals. Well how many of those non-decisive goals could we have used this year when we were up 1-0? We can’t kill games.

That’s obviously not on Inzaghi, however he’s not free from criticism either. We did have our chance to win this game. However when we were in the ascendency we needed to put our foot on their throat with a Sanchez or Correa sub. Instead we held constant and only brought subs due to injury until it was too late for the subs to make an impact and we had lost control of the game.

That tells me that Inzaghi did not want to lose this match more then he wanted to win this match. Time will tell if that was the right choice. We are better then Milan, and perhaps we’ll catch up. I can understand the fear of going 10 points behind this early, however I don’t think that’s the mentality that’s going to win us another scudetto.

This team seems like they’re back to where we were in the first year with Conte. I don’t get the vibe we are the reigning Serie A champs. We are back to being flat track bullies that struggle in the big matches. The added benefit now is we play a little bit better as a team and our CL group is easier because of our seeding.

Mentally we’re weaker then last year, we’re less fit then last year, and our personnel in 3 key positions is markedly worse. When we adequately replace Hakimi, Lukaku and Eriksen then we can talk. Those are 3 players that on their day are world class. Until we replace what we’ve lost this is our new normal.

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thatdude said:

It’s pretty clear that this team is lacking a protagonist. This whole team gives off big supporting actor energy, we’re like a great band with no lead singer. Our movie is lacking a main character. Say what you want about Lukaku but he was that guy for us.

This is unfortunately what happens when you sell your only natural goal scorer. Remember how the complaint about Lukaku was that he didn’t score enough “decisive” goals. Well how many of those non-decisive goals could we have used this year when we were up 1-0? We can’t kill games.

That’s obviously not on Inzaghi, however he’s not free from criticism either. We did have our chance to win this game. However when we were in the ascendency we needed to put our foot on their throat with a Sanchez or Correa sub. Instead we held constant and only brought subs due to injury until it was too late for the subs to make an impact and we had lost control of the game.

That tells me that Inzaghi did not want to lose this match more then he wanted to win this match. Time will tell if that was the right choice. We are better then Milan, and perhaps we’ll catch up. I can understand the fear of going 10 points behind this early, however I don’t think that’s the mentality that’s going to win us another scudetto.

This team seems like they’re back to where we were in the first year with Conte. I don’t get the vibe we are the reigning Serie A champs. We are back to being flat track bullies that struggle in the big matches. The added benefit now is we play a little bit better as a team and our CL group is easier because of our seeding.

Mentally we’re weaker then last year, we’re less fit then last year, and our personnel in 3 key positions is markedly worse. When we adequately replace Hakimi, Lukaku and Eriksen then we can talk. Those are 3 players that on their day are world class. Until we replace what we’ve lost this is our new normal.

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Harpsabu said:

This is so spot on and why the shit posting about lukaku scoring "useless" goals made zero sense.

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brehme1989 said:

The debate wasn't about goals scored after 1-0 or any 1 goal difference, but for a larger difference in the score line. We were never in this position thus far, where we collapsed from a 2 goal cushion that a 3rd goal would prove decisive for the win.

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thatdude said:

It’s pretty clear that this team is lacking a protagonist. This whole team gives off big supporting actor energy, we’re like a great band with no lead singer. Our movie is lacking a main character. Say what you want about Lukaku but he was that guy for us.

This is unfortunately what happens when you sell your only natural goal scorer. Remember how the complaint about Lukaku was that he didn’t score enough “decisive” goals. Well how many of those non-decisive goals could we have used this year when we were up 1-0? We can’t kill games.

That’s obviously not on Inzaghi, however he’s not free from criticism either. We did have our chance to win this game. However when we were in the ascendency we needed to put our foot on their throat with a Sanchez or Correa sub. Instead we held constant and only brought subs due to injury until it was too late for the subs to make an impact and we had lost control of the game.

That tells me that Inzaghi did not want to lose this match more then he wanted to win this match. Time will tell if that was the right choice. We are better then Milan, and perhaps we’ll catch up. I can understand the fear of going 10 points behind this early, however I don’t think that’s the mentality that’s going to win us another scudetto.

This team seems like they’re back to where we were in the first year with Conte. I don’t get the vibe we are the reigning Serie A champs. We are back to being flat track bullies that struggle in the big matches. The added benefit now is we play a little bit better as a team and our CL group is easier because of our seeding.

Mentally we’re weaker then last year, we’re less fit then last year, and our personnel in 3 key positions is markedly worse. When we adequately replace Hakimi, Lukaku and Eriksen then we can talk. Those are 3 players that on their day are world class. Until we replace what we’ve lost this is our new normal.

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Devious said:

101%

I miss the days where we had 11 protagonists on the field. Each player was a fucken school on his own.

We had JC who never froze, we had Lucio that fws in the German league arranged a party for his departure, he used to make the shit their pants there. Then Samuel the Wall arguably the best CB in Argentian history. Then you have the Tractory which needs no fucken introductions on an Inter forum, then fucken Maicon for fucks sake..

I’m not even past the first third of the field yet mate, we’ve had 11 fucken championships back then that if you put each one if them on a different team, each team will be relying on that player 100%

Now really there’s no one player we can compare to the least player of that treble. This team is lacking a lot to take us anywhere near the stars.

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Devious said:

I miss the days where we had 11 protagonists on the field. Each player was a fucken school on his own.

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brehme1989 said:

Care to name 11 such players in today's football? Not at one club, but in general.

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Devious said:

101%

I miss the days where we had 11 protagonists on the field. Each player was a fucken school on his own.

We had JC who never froze, we had Lucio that fws in the German league arranged a party for his departure, he used to make the shit their pants there. Then Samuel the Wall arguably the best CB in Argentian history. Then you have the Tractory which needs no fucken introductions on an Inter forum, then fucken Maicon for fucks sake..

I’m not even past the first third of the field yet mate, we’ve had 11 fucken championships back then that if you put each one if them on a different team, each team will be relying on that player 100%

Now really there’s no one player we can compare to the least player of that treble. This team is lacking a lot to take us anywhere near the stars.

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wera said:

Easy.

Harry Kane. Sterling. Jordan Henderson. Jonny Evans. Patson Daka. Grealish. Dean Henderson. Jesse Lingard. Harry Maguire. Jadon Sancho. Hudson-Odoi. Timo Werner. Eric Dier. Oliver Skipp. Nicolas Pepe. Harry Winks.



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Just bustin' your balls, man. Haha

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Il Drago said:

You forgot his favorite, James Milner.

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