Monza - Inter (15 Sep 24) [1-1]

CraigM

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I'm sure Inzaghi was no happier with the performance last night, but we're all just going to have to adapt to these different combinations as not regularly rotating is not even an option this season. Hopefully the more gametime these fringe players get, the quicker they will improve.

While only Di Marco looked sharp and Lautaro is miles off the pace at the moment, that Frattesi performance was the one that really stuck out to me. It looked like every other extended performance by him in an Inter shirt so far, without the saving grace of the one key moment of incisiveness in front of goal that usually masks his deficiencies. What really rankles with me is how he is playing in a key area of the pitch, for a team that is dominating possession and is mostly camped in the opposing half, and yet he seems to go long periods of time without even seeing the ball.

Now I realise that the attack was highly focused on going down Di Marco's side what with Darmian's limitations, but the play is continually switching from side to side in the final third as they were seeking a way through and yet the ball seemed to be just everywhere apart from where he was. Lets not talk about how poor he was when he did get possession of the thing.

Before the season started I expressed concerns about the midfield. Last season was an outlier in as much as they had the main trio who played 90%+ of the gametime available to them, with Asllani and Frattesi the only other mids called upon as back up. There was also Sensi and Klaessen who barely featured largely because there was no need for them. However going into this season with one less body in the middle was misguided for me. Already we have seen Hakan, Zielinski and Barella have (minor) injuries whilst Miki has not got kicked into gear at all this season - something that can happen very easily with players his age of course.
 

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A mention for Zielinski though. He looked rusty of course, but you can see that if he works out he can bring a whole different dynamic to that midfield, a more technical and precise style that will be very useful for breaking down teams that come out just to defend. So much is reliant on the width to create opportunities - and that's really only the left side - that they need that creative guile through the middle too.
 

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Correa is barely running
Was anyone expecting something else from Correa?

Shitty attitude from the whole team. They did under-estimate the opponent again (just like against Genoa) and got punished. When do they wake the fuck up?

Incredibly embarrassing
Yes, now everyone knows they just have to sit deep against Inter. I don't get what Limone was trying to achieve here. Lautaro is out of form and probably tired, why play him now? Save him for City if you care so much about that match. Start with Taremi.

Start with the best team, play aggressively with high intensity from the start, impose yourself on the pitch, score at least 2 goals by half time and THEN introduce the losers (Asllani, Correa, Arnautovic, etc.). If you instruct them to play with half-intensity, nothing good will come out of it.

This totally feels like the pre-scudetto season, where they wasted points against small clubs. Get the lead and then relax, if ever.

Glad I tuned out at half time, this kind of "performance" doesn't deserve my time.

PS: Pavard deserves to sit on the bench next match.
 

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it doesn't strike me as too much rotation, cause these guys had been playing together for 1 year+, it also didn't show any performance suffering from rotation, but more of the players' style/ability, again we did enough for the game in a tactical point of view, we do not need to overwhelmingly scoring 4 goals every game, and to keep in mind, the first goal unlock these kinda game entirely, and we did everything right except the goal in the first half.
 

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Disapointing game all around, we never seem to do well with rotation. Dimarco possibly missing Milan as well as City now too, gutted.

We move, we are Inter.
 

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It's bizarre to me that Inzaghi's idea of midfield rotation - and seeing as how Barella and Hakan weren't used as subs, that he was committed to resting them ahead of the City game - is that the oldest player still starts and plays 60 minutes. Just strange to me. And the most obvious person in the whole damn team to start from the bench - the guy who had to make a trans-Atlantic flight to return - was in the XI.

Rotation is one thing, we all know Inzaghi needs to do it, and this was the most obvious game for that. In that sense, what happens from there is just rolling some dice, we know that using a number of non-starters isn't likely to produce as good a result. The choices of who got rotated and who didn't was just strange though.

and there we go. We're now -5 goals compared to the same time last year, and -3 points. I bet we dont ever catch up to our like-for-like points tally from last year.

Through equiv fixtures, it's two points worse, the goal difference part is mostly immaterial (I mean, I know goal difference matters, not as much as before with tiebreakers now but it still is useful, but we were more than double the 2nd-best GD last season, we don't need +64 or whatever again this year to be successful). It helps that Juventus are also a point worse and Milan surely are worse off as well (I'm not tracking their games). Napoli are the wild card, we'll see what happens there as their season goes on.
 

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Asllani and Frattesi worked better when Taremi was on the field.
For Asllani, even Zieliński unlocked Asllani a bit, but Zieliński showed how bad he needs overlaps plays on the sides. He is a player that needs a lot of options, which means a lot of off ball movement, and yesterday it was more pinning sections in the box for the overall tactic, but at least from in the mid section build up he and Asllani worked well together.
 
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