Imagine us losing the Scudetto and missing out on our second star to shit cunt teams like Milan and Napoli because we can’t score goals.
You're taking for granted that we'd be scoring if Lukaku was here instead of Lautaro. (Because the two of them most probably wouldn't have been here)
That means:
- Lukaku has a different role and we've seen that he struggles with anything less than being the first recipient of the ball.
- Inzaghi tolerating Lukaku and letting him stick around despite being detrimental to the rest of the team, a la Conte.
- The team still has to work for Lukaku defensively as well as offensively, limiting us even more.
We have the following data:
- We are losing steam after 65-75 minutes.
- Lukaku scored a lot of goals for Inter (64), but the number of goals that came in the last 30 minutes are:
a) 26 out of 47 Serie A goals (8 PKs)
b) 4 out of 6 CL goals
c) 3 out of 7 EL goals (one PK)
d) 2 out of 4 Coppa goals (one PK)
That's more than half of his goals (34 out of 64) coming in the last 30 minutes, which seems a bit.. unbalanced, no?
To take the cut off to 75 minutes, we see this:
a) 11 out of 47 Serie A goals (3 PKs)
b) 2 out of 6 CL goals
c) 3 out of 7 EL goals (one PK)
d) 1 out of 4 Coppa goals (it was a 119th minute winner, so extra time, and obviously included above as well)
Which drops this to 17/64 goals (over 1/4 of total) in the last 15 minutes, 11 of which were in the last 5 minutes of the game (or in extra time).
This is the "best way to use him" as called by everyone, including Conte. So knowing that our team cannot run at the same tempo over 90 minutes as with Pintus coaching them, knowing that Inzaghi doesn't feel the same way about Lukaku as Conte and knowing that we'd need a new pressing forward instead of Lautaro who'd be at least at the same level (would love to see people naming such players), do you honestly feel that Lukaku could have been an important player for Inter under our current setup? Even if you don't replace Lautaro with anyone, not Dzeko, not some imaginary second forward, do you see this pattern being replaced by something else?
I'd appreciate if someone can pull off the number of goals we scored in the last 30 minutes under Conte vs under Inzaghi per season.