Alexis injured himself with Chile and will be out for 2-3 weeks.Was Sanchez issue? I don't see why he was slotted in instead of Alexis, we had a comfortable lead and we just needed to hit on counters, Dzeko isn't suited that well for that and we need him for the Shakhtar game.
No surprises there.Alexis injured himself with Chile and will be out for 2-3 weeks.
And Alexis will go to Instagram to complain about the lack of playing time for us again...Alexis injured himself with Chile and will be out for 2-3 weeks.
I don't want to defend Sanchez on this coz his International focus bugs the hell out of me too. He always comes back from Internationals with an injury and is missing in action for us when we desperately need him (like yesterday). That said, its also true that before this international break he was fit and under utilised by Inzaghi. I can understand Inzaghi's rationale - Dzeko & Martinez are our starters, and the coach made Inter spend a very big amount on Correa, and now has to justify that spend so Correa is now the 3rd striker above Sanchez.
The only criticism I can give is that perhaps Martinez should have been rotated a bit more with Sanchez before the last International break. That said, Sanchez will be back in a couple of weeks, and its a long season.
In terms of minutes per goal contribution, Sanchez was our most effective contributor last season, and he is right up there this season as well. So he is still very effective.
Player: Minutes played / Goals scored or created = Minutes per Goal Contribution
Sanchez: 211/3 = 70
Correa: 386/5 = 77
Dzeko: 1178/15 = 79
Martinez: 1102/9 = 122
And Alexis will go to Instagram to complain about the lack of playing time for us again...
In the meantime Dzeko injured himself with Bosnia, broke his head tonight, and while still had visible blood stains on his bandage, kept defending our goal on corners.
I don't want to defend Sanchez on this coz his International focus bugs the hell out of me too. He always comes back from Internationals with an injury and is missing in action for us when we desperately need him (like yesterday). That said, its also true that before this international break he was fit and under utilised by Inzaghi. I can understand Inzaghi's rationale - Dzeko & Martinez are our starters, and the coach made Inter spend a very big amount on Correa, and now has to justify that spend so Correa is now the 3rd striker above Sanchez.
The only criticism I can give is that perhaps Martinez should have been rotated a bit more with Sanchez before the last International break. That said, Sanchez will be back in a couple of weeks, and its a long season.
In terms of minutes per goal contribution, Sanchez was our most effective contributor last season, and he is right up there this season as well. So he is still very effective.
Player: Minutes played / Goals scored or created = Minutes per Goal Contribution
Sanchez: 211/3 = 70
Correa: 386/5 = 77
Dzeko: 1178/15 = 79
Martinez: 1102/9 = 122
I get these stats but we need to understand, specially in this season, that small sample size can lead us to wrong conclusions. His mins / GC ratio looks great but indeed his mins are pretty low. We can't know what they would be if he had played double minutes. Default starters most probably have always poorer stats. Sanchez is perfect as super sub but probably nothing more. I'm pretty certain his stats would tank if he was a regular starter, we wouldn't be scoring that much which would keep his ratio so great.
And like said, he's injured way too much this season.