Yeah, but no, that's not how nurturing talent effectively goes. You don't ignore young players completely for almost the whole of the season (what was that statline, 99 minutes he had gotten since the start of the year at one point?), only giving them substitute minutes when you, as a coach, have made the wrong decisions and are chasing a result. You don't throw them to the lions on foreign ground in a Coppa Italia Semi-final, but you might have started them against easier opposition or at least given them major minutes when games were wrapped up.
Look at this Carboni statline, for instance.
Bordering on parody. Only one minute of play-time when the pressure's been off, literally every single appearance was made in pure desperation at the, for a young player, most unfavorable time to play.
How is anyone, let alone a young player, supposed to thrive in those conditions? They simply can't.
Asllani's picture isn't as egregious, but it's still very bad. It's still a case of Inzaghi almost only using him as a last roll of the dice, when his prefered starting of Correa or Mkhitariyan or whoever hasn't gone according to plan.
I don't even rate him, but there is no way anyone can argue that he's gotten anything but the worst enviroment to show what he's capable of, thanks to Inzaghi. And he's getting more of that tonight - who knows, he might surprise us, but likely won't, because he's out of form without any significant minutes in his legs.
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