Inter - Bologna (15 Jan 25) [2-2]

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Another poor performance. Only played for parts of the game. The inter malaise is back in full force...
 

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I’m checked out on Inzaghi becoming any more than what he is. A Lazio coach with the best team in the league. He’s a good manager but he’s not what many here think he is. He is not and I don’t think ever will be a great coach. He is innovative and plays a good brand of football and appears passionate. All great things. But he lacks the little things like good man management and grit we need to win major titles consistently. Hope he proves me wrong but I’m not sure he will.

Inzaghi already is a great coach, and probably the best solution what Inter could have, given situation/circumstances. We often forget how year after year, we're kinda forced to sell key players of our team, just to survive from financial aspect, but yet again, he's managed to get things together and remain competitive despite of changes and everything.

Is he faultless? Of course not. He makes wrong decision sometimes but he's in a delicate positon that sometimes circumstances force him to do even these wrong changes just for the sake of it. There's some errors every here and then, but the incredible job he's done with Inter is just an example on how to coach a top team with very limited resources and still win titles/cups.

Inter is being recognized as one of the best teams in Europe these days. Gotta give him credit for this. Just see recent seasons how many changes we've had with key players leaving and our management improvising with bringing half-ass solutions or whatever. I'd actually blame our head management more than anyone else. Bring the coach players he wants, if he's not delivering results, then judge his coaching ability on whether a new project is necessary or not, but at the current state, he's doing just great.

Whoever chases two rabbits, catches neither. Our managemeng has to realize that we can't compete in both CL and Serie A. The sooner the better. Either bring a couple of new additions in the squad, or focus on Serie A and give up on CL challenge.
 

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Didn't catch all the game but seem some highlights, I think that was a pen on Thuram keeper doesn't touch the ball at all!

Toro apologising to the fans after scoring, I hope he knows we are all behind him!

Not the greatest result we could have asked for but we are still on track, we move!
 

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Last 3 games, we've scored once in the 2nd half? I'm wondering if fatigue is an issue.

First halves and second halves seem completely different.
 

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Two things:
1. Goalless, out of shape, exhausted Lautaro is better than Taremi.
2. If you play Dimarco not 120 but 240 minutes straight, he will be still better that Buchanan.
 

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This result doesn't compromise anything yet, but it narrows our "budget". One less draw there now, so instead of drawing let's say Atalanta away, we need to probably win them.
 

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Unpopular opinion: Inzaghi should have a solid, well-thought-out Plan B or a second formation. Something to rely on when key players are missing, along with the traits that make our main setup work.

Also, our bench is terrible right now. I’m beyond disappointed with Zielinski, and the same goes for Taremi. And Frattesi...dude, man, you were supposed to be the guy! I know all the "out of his position" etc, but show some balls.

I blame Inzaghi the most tbh, if we are playing the blaming game. Other that that, im getting vibez of the same season we lost the title to Milan.

Actually that is the only thing I can nitpick on Inzaghi.

However, an entire different well thought out plan B for rotation players is not as easy as it sounds. You can only practice and prep a limit amount of tactics and be good at it, so on the flip side it is more on the management not getting the right backup players for the original plan or a slightly deviated one.

I mean it is a huge work for redesigning the game plan for Frattesi, it is like we only get wingers as back up with no strikers.

P.S. Asllani is actually the second best midfielder on the team today lol.Zenlinski and Frattesi were playing worse for sure.

P.S.2 Taremi and Arna give me the vibe that they are better off playing as the core in a weaker team than a backup for a big team. We need some super sub like Cruz. If Correa ain't injured prone, he is doing well for his role this year.

P.S.3 the squad is too old to be sustainable throughout a long season like this, and a lot are donimal effects, like because some older players having harder time to recover, then more compressed schedule for others with less rotations which leads to more injury, not to mention the drop in quality and style is too huge when we rotate and we have to rotate.

With all that said, I don't think it is a tactical thing that lost us our game today, it was deflection, what can you do about, the XG is 1.79 : 0.91.

Could they do better, yea, but was the performance deserving the scoreline? I don't think so.
 

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If we win against Napoli, we are winning the Scudetto - my hot take. We all already know that the squad needs reinforcements, but I'm afraid we don't have the money to make moves, except if Frattesi is really sold this winter.

As for now, middle of Serie A, still on pace with Napoli, this is good enough for me atm. Considering Inter plays more games than Napoli, I can't help but congratulate Inzaghi for still being in the game. You can see Milan and Juventus, who did spend money this summer, not doing good enough.
 

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Yesterday, Barella was the only one who dared to send a cross into the penalty area. Everyone else just dribbled and kicked the ball directly at the opponent.
 

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Some of the least annoyed I've ever been at dropped points. We played like shit and simply did not deserve to win.
 

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This result doesn't compromise anything yet, but it narrows our "budget". One less draw there now, so instead of drawing let's say Atalanta away, we need to probably win them.
I think it's going to be very hard, unfortunately. My only hope is that Napoli and Atalanta are also slowing down, but it's unlikely especially Napoli, don't looks like they will fall down.
 

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This result doesn't compromise anything yet, but it narrows our "budget". One less draw there now, so instead of drawing let's say Atalanta away, we need to probably win them.
I would be hugely impressed if napoli goes on some unbeaten run from now until the end of the season, like people here are suggesting. They have to have some sort of drop given their squad quality. If conte manages that, then hats off to him... We have to keep in my mind they are still novelty in terms of a scuddetto challenge, real pressure isn't turned on them yet. Once we enter march/april/may aka the crucial months, we'll see how they react then.

My optimism comes from the simple fact that no contender except us has an ability to go to rome, play a team like lazio and beat them 6:0. That counts for something...
 

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Actually that is the only thing I can nitpick on Inzaghi.

However, an entire different well thought out plan B for rotation players is not as easy as it sounds. You can only practice and prep a limit amount of tactics and be good at it, so on the flip side it is more on the management not getting the right backup players for the original plan or a slightly deviated one.

I mean it is a huge work for redesigning the game plan for Frattesi, it is like we only get wingers as back up with no strikers.

P.S. Asllani is actually the second best midfielder on the team today lol.Zenlinski and Frattesi were playing worse for sure.

P.S.2 Taremi and Arna give me the vibe that they are better off playing as the core in a weaker team than a backup for a big team. We need some super sub like Cruz. If Correa ain't injured prone, he is doing well for his role this year.

P.S.3 the squad is too old to be sustainable throughout a long season like this, and a lot are donimal effects, like because some older players having harder time to recover, then more compressed schedule for others with less rotations which leads to more injury, not to mention the drop in quality and style is too huge when we rotate and we have to rotate.

With all that said, I don't think it is a tactical thing that lost us our game today, it was deflection, what can you do about, the XG is 1.79 : 0.91.

Could they do better, yea, but was the performance deserving the scoreline? I don't think so.
Am sure i remember us playing 4.4.2 or 4.4.3 once early on in Inzaghi's tenure? Anyone else remember this? Might have been in Europe.
Is it really that hard for professional players to move formations? Loads of other teams do it - some week by week.
It is Inzaghi's main weakness.
 

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Am sure i remember us playing 4.4.2 or 4.4.3 once early on in Inzaghi's tenure? Anyone else remember this? Might have been in Europe.
Is it really that hard for professional players to move formations? Loads of other teams do it - some week by week.
It is Inzaghi's main weakness.
I think they can definitely play it to a certain degree, but in an extremely competitive environment, even if you can play 80% well in the other system, it might not be sufficient, not to mention it is not just the formation, but a lot other details in it, hence you see players getting lost and out of position when firstly joined.

I only remember some experimental subs playing non 3-5-2, don't remember we ever play a full on game starting with 4-4-2 or 4-3-3
 

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One of the (very few) downsides to last season was that the lack of injuries meant we fielded a settled team that rarely changed and rarely rotated. Even after the title was won players like Miki were still being asked to churn out 90 minutes after 90 minutes despite being obviously knackered. The downside was thus the lack of minutes it meant for anyone outside the rarefied confines of the chosen eleven. You could make a case that the only fringe player who improved was Bisseck.

That ideal eleven approach is still in place this season and now we do have injuries we are expecting players who have been cast as little more than warm bodies filler to step up and run games. It's easy to criticise Asslani and we can all recognise that he's probably not good enough, but it really doesn't help him when he plays so little and in the wrong position at the time in his career when he really needs game time. When we were looking for a vice-Brozovic in the summer of 22 we wanted Ederson from Salernitana, couldn't afford him and got Asslani instead while the Brazilian went to Atalanta.

Ederson is one of the best midfielders in Italy now and wanted by some of the biggest clubs on the continent, and while he's obviously a better player than Asslani, his rapid development is not just down to his natural ability. Since he joined Atalanta he has played around 8,500 minutes. Asslani joined Inter at the same time and has played 2,400 minutes. It's fair to say Ederson would be nowhere near the player he now is had he joined Inter and played a quarter of the playing time he has, while I would wager Asslani would be better (though maybe still not good enough) with that extra playing time. See also Bellanova and how he developed quickly by just playing a lot.

And this is where I can see this enforced transition from low fee high wage, older and experienced players to young and up and coming players for the future being difficult. Whatever approach is in place there will be the demand to keep winning games and keep winning trophies and to do that we have to suck up the downsides that comes with younger players and the errors they will make as they grow into hopefully better ones. I'm not sure there's the appetite for anyone at the club, including us, to sacrifice short-term wins for longer term gains. Why would Inzaghi want this when he knows one bad season could see him sacked anyway.
 

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Just saw the extended highlights. We were quite unlucky here. The 2nd goal was a deflection, and the first can also be put in that bracket.

On the other hand, we managed to create a lot of chances as opposed to last few games. Only real fault was Taremi who should have scored. Apart from that, I don't see a reason to be outraging. Yes, the dropped points hurt. But it is bound to happen some times.
 

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Last 3 games, we've scored once in the 2nd half? I'm wondering if fatigue is an issue.

First halves and second halves seem completely different.
Yes it is. Usually it was the other way around, second halfs were our forte, specially if you look at last season, we only conceded few goals in the last 15 mins. Already now we exceeded that number
 

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Basically they got 2 deflected goals.
Martinez is returning so yeh not a bad game for us.
 
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