Simone Inzaghi

Will Simone Inzaghi win a Scudetto at Inter?


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Jacquez

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Obviously the result sparks enthusiasm, but our defensive blunders were quite worrying.
 

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Inzaghi never has problems with setting up a grinding machine and winning a series tbh. He has done that several times with Lazio. His "real tests" are matches after the first defeat. Usually his team derails and he has no clue how to shake the players up, destroying the whole season.

Inzaghi has a timid personality and, as the side effect, is not a great motivator.
We will have to hope we have enough players with personality in the squad to avoid that. This team are winners now so hopefully that’s done something for them mentally.
 

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What makes me optimistic is that Inzaghi has inherited a great team from a great manager. It’s very different from inheriting a complete mess of circus like the ones in the previous recent dark era.

It would take a mediocre stubborn new coach to destroy what Conte has built. Inzaghi is far from that from what I’ve seen.
 

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Inzaghi never has problems with setting up a grinding machine and winning a series tbh. He has done that several times with Lazio. His "real tests" are matches after the first defeat. Usually his team derails and he has no clue how to shake the players up, destroying the whole season.

Inzaghi has a timid personality and, as the side effect, is not a great motivator.

But that could be because he never had a side with the quality Inter have. He also never had a team of winners.

You don't need to be a great motivator to excel. That job could be your captain's for example. As long as you get your tactics right and you have players with the right mentality and are proven winner, I think the motivator part could be overlooked.
 

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But that could be because he never had a side with the quality Inter have. He also never had a team of winners.

You don't need to be a great motivator to excel. That job could be your captain's for example. As long as you get your tactics right and you have players with the right mentality and are proven winner, I think the motivator part could be overlooked.


Honestly, despite hating Conte in every way, it's actually a good thing that Inzaghi came after him. That's the only thing that Conte is top at, he sucks at everything else, but he can get everything from his players mentally and physically. And since Inzaghi is coming after, if he's smart he can maintain that kind of metality since most of the players are already accustomed to it and know that it works so he doesn't have to enforce it too much.
 

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Honestly, despite hating Conte in every way, it's actually a good thing that Inzaghi came after him. That's the only thing that Conte is top at, he sucks at everything else, but he can get everything from his players mentally and physically. And since Inzaghi is coming after, if he's smart he can maintain that kind of metality since most of the players are already accustomed to it and know that it works so he doesn't have to enforce it too much.
Sometimes a team and a coach just click. Like Sarri at Napoli. Let’s hope for once in the last 10 years we’ve caught some lightning in a bottle.

I wouldn’t consider what Conte did lightning in a bottle because he built it gradually over 2 years and we also made some heavy investment in the team.
 

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What makes me optimistic is that Inzaghi has inherited a great team from a great manager. It’s very different from inheriting a complete mess of circus like the ones in the previous recent dark era.

It would take a mediocre stubborn new coach to destroy what Conte has built. Inzaghi is far from that from what I’ve seen.
Inzaghi aint no Benitez
 

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I agree with Brehme completely. Mentally he is there.
Also Lazio won a lot of games in the last minutes and they also were the team who turn around the most games. You don't do that if the coach is not mentally tough and the team doens't believe in his strenghts.
Under Spaletti we were the opposite. When we conceeded the first, the coach and players were like depressive pussies.
I write that more than a month ago, regarding the same assumption about the lack of motivation or weak mentality. His Lazio team had many flaws but the fighting and mental strenghts were not one of them. His team had a few "names" in the first team but also a lot of holes. And the bench was atrocious.
 

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I am actually really excited to see how we play 5-10 games from now. You could see many occasions where the sharpness just was not there yet and the players were still getting used to everything. To win so convincingly (could have scored even more than 4) is not easy to do in the first game of the season, no matter who you play against. Just look at Juve and Milan.
 

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Like the wrinkle on the throw in with Perisic and Dzeko combination, it almost worked twice! His subs worked, save for Vecino, but then again it resulted in no harm, just a laugh in the final analysis.
 

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Even though his subs went well I hope he realizes soon that subbing the only striker can backfire badly towards the end of the game. We have to get accustomed to his football, as he visibly still prefers possession football and working with the GK as a kind of playmaker.
 

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Iirc Conte struggled as well when teams marked Brozo tightly. Hakan being terrible didn't help either. I hope we see solution for that soon.
 

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Hakan has always been criticised for his consistency. Euro was a distraction for Barella and Bastoni too. Give Inzaghi another 4-5 matches before we judge.

So far his subs are on the point. Players seem to get along with him. Just need to manage Dzeko’s energy carefully and give a healthy rotation to Persicic/Dimarco and Darmian/Dumfries then we are all good.
 

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He said that he is extremly happy that club brought Dumfries, Correa and Džeko. Like this guy, he is modest, not fucking drama queen that wants to squeeze this club to last penny to bring him best players just to exit CL in first round. Good luck mister and thank you for having balls and coming to our club in this delicate moment. Hope you succeed here.
 

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He said that he is extremly happy that club brought Dumfries, Correa and Džeko. Like this guy, he is modest, not fucking drama queen that wants to squeeze this club to last penny to bring him best players just to exit CL in first round. Good luck mister and thank you for having balls and coming to our club in this delicate moment. Hope you succeed here.

The trait that was annoying about him was whining all the time about refereeing, despite having mostly favorable calls overall.

He'll learn the hard way :)
 
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