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.
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.
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.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.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.
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.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.
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.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.
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 numberLast 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.