Simone Inzaghi

[Irequis]

Very poor starting lineup. He must have forgotten his medicines when he picked Dambro and Correa while shifted Darmian to RWB. Although we dominate the game, we really lack the final blow because correa is a moron. Luckily Inzaghi is sober at the halftime and manages the game superbly afterward. We completely dominate nazio and now we have the right players to put them to sword.

Just play Lu-La for the rest of the games ffs.

 

[Nyall]

Oh would you look at that.. 3 straight wins and we’re right back into the UCL spot race.

We’re hitting form at the perfect time because the month of May has probably the toughest schedule of matches I can recall. Roma, Milan, Milan, Napoli, Atalanta are basically all finals and there’s an actual final against Fiorentina.

We have to keep rotating and unfortunately the team lacks the depth to be quality every time we do.

this will probably be the longest season in club history in terms of games played, due to the World Cup being in between.

Our players must be exhausted but Inzhagi has them looking hungry and motivated at a time when even Mourinho faced a challenge at keeping focus.

kudos to him. If there’s one thing I learned growing up, is that an Inzhagi will deliver in a Champions League Final all the while making you wonder how the fuck they even got there.

 

[wera]

Inzaghi doing good lately.

Unlucky that Gosens got injured.

 

[bubba zanetti]

“I think it was one of our best performances in my 20 months at the club. At the end of the first half, we were trailing 1-0, but I told them to keep going like that and the result would come. We played against the team in second place, with a lot of quality, but it was a wonderful Inter today,” Inzaghi told Sky Sport Italia.

The coach had to rotate the squad too, as they beat Juventus 1-0 in the Coppa Italia semi-final on Wednesday evening.

“It was such an important match for us, there is another in 72 hours and we have to continue riding that wave. I got great signs from those who started and came off the bench, the team spirit is immense.”

Francesco Acerbi made a horrible mistake to give away the Lazio goal, but Lukaku seemed to find another gear once Lautaro Martinez came off the bench.

“I congratulated the team at half-time, I felt we did not deserve to be a goal down and had to continue like that. We needed to remain concentrated, as Lazio are dangerous on the counter-attack, and the substitutions were important too. We won a match that is fundamental for us.”

Gosens scored such an acrobatic goal at the back post that he landed in a heap and seemed to dislocate his shoulder.

“Clearly, he dislocated the shoulder and we hope that we don’t lose him, because he has been doing so well since January and alternating with Federico Dimarco. He brings intensity, I made a different decision today because I wanted to pass it around more against Lazio. We hope he won’t need to take time off, as we need everyone right now when we play every 48-72 hours.”

This result puts Inter in joint fourth with Milan and Roma on 57 points, only four adrift of second-placed Lazio.

“We are having an exciting season along with our fantastic fans, who once again cheered us on from start to finish. We know that we dropped some points in Serie A that we did not deserve to lose. Perhaps due to fatigue or a lack of sharpness, we didn’t get those results, but I am very satisfied with what we achieved in the Cup competitions, also remembering we won the Supercoppa Italiana in January.

“We have faith for the rest of the season and the many games that are coming up.”

 

[Ethor]

Just start Lukaku and Lautaro up front and good things happen. You can put on Dzeko and Correa on against Verona if we are up 0-3 in the 70min. How hard can that be?

 

[wera]

If his bench was better, we wouldn't have so many problems. Usually when we have starters on the bench and they come on, we play better, but when it's starters coming off for bench players, we look horrible.

 

[delaurentis]

Say what you want about Inzaghi, but the last 4 games (Benfica, JuBe, Empoli, Lazio) I've started to see more bite from this Inter team.
With all the pressure and question marks surrounding his ability to coach, I find it quite impressive how he is helping things around.

What a pity about the injuries for Gosens and Skriniar though.... -

 

[wera]

As much as this is impressive, I saw the same with Spalletti, we had a huge drop in form and then performed at the end like we know how we can. It's a shame that a drop like that even happened. If only we had more draws instead of losses, we'd be comfortable in CL spots, now we have to be perfect until the end.

 

[varmin]

It looks like some key figures are back in form, so it's up to Inzaghi to handle the players property now. We'll play 10 games within a month, most of which will be very important. If he manage to quality us in CL, and get past Milan, he definitely deserves to stay.

 

[.h.]

It looks like some key figures are back in form, so it's up to Inzaghi to handle the players property now. We'll play 10 games within a month, most of which will be very important. If he manage to quality us in CL, and get past Milan, he definitely deserves to stay.

I wouldnt say 'definitely' - we need a post-season retrospective to understand why we finished 4th (hopefully) in a season we really should have finished 2nd and been at least in the ballpark for the title if not competing to the end. Also, we need to understand what Inzaghi thinks we need to do to improve the squad to compete for the league next season, what his plans are for the squad (Eg which players leave, etc) and then decide if we think his vision is reasonable or, for example, if it involves bringing in a wghole bunch of deadwood from Lazio and suddenly they're world class players like Correa and Acerbi (cough)

The scale of our fuck up in the league is such that only a CL WIN would mean we "definitely" keep Inzaghi

 

[varmin]

Qualifying in top 4 and reaching a final in CL is enough to keep his job in my view. Anyway, he shouldn't have an opinion about the transfers as a particular names. Marotta and Ausilio can assemble decent squad for him, if Zhang allows them to spend some money, and does not interfere anymore (blocked Skriniar's sale) in transfers.

 

[.h.]

Qualifying in top 4 and reaching a final in CL is enough to keep his job in my view. Anyway, he shouldn't have an opinion about the transfers as a particular names. Marotta and Ausilio can assemble decent squad for him, if Zhang allows them to spend some money, and does not interfere anymore (blocked Skriniar's sale) in transfers.

Names or not, I think its about his vision for the squad and Marotta/etc deciding if that resolves the issues and takes us a step forward or not, and whether its achievable or not.

I mean, basically, Inzaghi can say something like:
To achieve 1st next year, I need [xyz]

then the question is - well, do I think [xyz] would actually achieve us 1st, is [xyz] within our budget, and do we think another coach could do better with a cheaper [xyz]

 

[varmin]

Names or not, I think its about his vision for the squad and Marotta/etc deciding if that resolves the issues and takes us a step forward or not, and whether its achievable or not.

I mean, basically, Inzaghi can say something like:
To achieve 1st next year, I need [xyz]

then the question is - well, do I think [xyz] would actually achieve us 1st, is [xyz] within our budget, and do we think another coach could do better with a cheaper [xyz]

I don't believe that Inzaghi is the type of coach, who will require something by the management at first place. It's more to them to assemble the squad and based on that to set some reasonable targets for the coach. Basically with our financial state, the minimum target should be top 4, and introducing some young players in the team, because we don't have the money to get already proven stars. Inzaghi is obvious failure at the latter, but if he can keep us in top 4, his ability to progress deep in the cups, may be enough for him to stay.

 

[.h.]

I don't believe that Inzaghi is the type of coach, who will require something by the management at first place. It's more to them to assemble the squad and based on that to set some reasonable targets for the coach. Basically with our financial state, the minimum target should be top 4, and introducing some young players in the team, because we don't have the money to get already proven stars. Inzaghi is obvious failure at the latter, but if he can keep us in top 4, his ability to progress deep in the cups, may be enough for him to stay.

Sure, but kind of my point is what do we think he can actually achieve going forwards. This is a squad that is quite probably going to be weaker next season on average, there may only be a key tactical investment or two. If we sign a good CB, will Inzaghi actually be capable of using them well? Nothing I've seen so far suggests he knows how to organise a defense properly, so that would potentially be a trigger for a new coach.

Cups - especially the CL - are so luck dependent. Keeping someone on the basis of, lets be honeset, one of the most lop-sided CL draws in recent history is not a reason to keep a coach. IF we proceed vs Milan, and IF we manage to win it, then we can talk, but knocking out Porto, Benfica, and hopefully Milan, isnt exactly a "hard" run to the CL semis/finals - in a different universe we'd have pulled someone like PSG or City in R16, and then suddenly the cup expert doesnt look so expert tbh?

 

[Il Drago]

I wouldnt say 'definitely' - we need a post-season retrospective to understand why we finished 4th (hopefully) in a season we really should have finished 2nd and been at least in the ballpark for the title if not competing to the end. Also, we need to understand what Inzaghi thinks we need to do to improve the squad to compete for the league next season, what his plans are for the squad (Eg which players leave, etc) and then decide if we think his vision is reasonable or, for example, if it involves bringing in a wghole bunch of deadwood from Lazio and suddenly they're world class players like Correa and Acerbi (cough)

The scale of our fuck up in the league is such that only a CL WIN would mean we "definitely" keep Inzaghi

It isn't just this season where we should have easily finished second instead of fighting for the last spot till the end. It's also the previous one where we choked against Milan and lost a title we should have won.

In both seasons under Inzaghi we have underperformed in the league. And it's become evident this season the guy has no way to get a team out of a slump. He doesn't make any adjustments to his game in order to grind results when players are in bad form. Instead he just waits for the players to find form again. And it was the same at Lazio. It's the cups that have saved him and at a point you have to wonder if the cup progression is worth the underperforming in the league.

 

[.h.]

It isn't just this season where we should have easily finished second instead of fighting for the last spot till the end. It's also the previous one where we choked against Milan and lost a title we should have won.

In both seasons under Inzaghi we have underperformed in the league. And it's become evident this season the guy has no way to get a team out of a slump. He doesn't make any adjustments to his game in order to grind results when players are in bad form. Instead he just waits for the players to find form again. And it was the same at Lazio. It's the cups that have saved him and at a point you have to wonder if the cup progression is worth the underperforming in the league.

to be completely honest, the difference between a distant 2nd and a clear 4th isnt that big of a deal to me, but as I said earlier this season, it was unfathomable that we drop out of top 4 entirely, and yet that's exactly what happened. The underperformance is worse than even my personal mental 'worst case scenario', and thats what really worries me

Which is why I was suggesting a post-season retrospective, the board/management need to really convince themselves - irrespective of how the season ends - that this isnt a guy who is going to drop us into 5th or worse next season, because if he does the consequences for this club, and its future, will take years to fix.

 

[andrei]

If Inter will play again in CL next year, Inzaghi should stay. Obviously our big problems with him is his unwillingness to play/develop young players. And this is a fundamental problem for us going further. We could bring a few grandpas who would keep the ship afloat for a while. But giving our financial struggle, we need a "strategy" to find and develop players. We don`t have money to buy already good finished products. But this is a task for the coach and scouting department. I don`t trust neither at Inter.

 

[.h.]

If Inter will play again in CL next year, Inzaghi should stay. Obviously our big problems with him is his unwillingness to play/develop young players. And this is a fundamental problem for us going further. We could bring a few grandpas who would keep the ship afloat for a while. But giving our financial struggle, we need a "strategy" to find and develop players. We don`t have money to buy already good finished products. But this is a task for the coach and scouting department. I don`t trust neither at Inter.

in my mind at least there's a real risk that scraping into the CL and keeping inzaghi for another year just means the problem spirals even worse. I dont see any improvements in his Inter, the defense is worse than it has been for like 4 seasons, the strikers have been a disaster, midfield is maybe just about ok sometimes... team cohesion is poor,e tc

 

[brakbrak]

Idk why yall are discussing this, if we make it to CL, inzaghi will stay. We are just that broke and can't afford 2 manager payroll.

 

[andrei]

in my mind at least there's a real risk that scraping into the CL and keeping inzaghi for another year just means the problem spirals even worse. I dont see any improvements in his Inter, the defense is worse than it has been for like 4 seasons, the strikers have been a disaster, midfield is maybe just about ok sometimes... team cohesion is poor,e tc

I get your point. But look to the other side of the coin.
Defense is worse because the personel is worse. We went from Skriniar- deVrij - Bastoni to Darmian-Acerbi- Bastoni. I don`t think would be a coach who could have kept the defense at the same level, because the personnel is much worse.
The strikers have been a desaster, because Lukaku didn`t work. I don`t think anyone believe the would bring the same output as in his Conte years, but the reality was waaay worse. He was injured more than half of the season and it took him also a long time until he seems to regain his fitness. We remain with Lautaro who every year has a dry spell, the corpse of Dzeko and Correa (no comments here). We don`t have any reliable striker for a whole campaign (Lukaku was that under Conte).
Midfield was ok, because we have 4 midfielders who were more or less constant in their output (they could even make for the absence of Brozo).

We can shit on Inzaghi how much we want and could find him many flaws (objective or not). But the sad reality is our roster is not deep enough to fight on 3 fronts until the end. Too many old senators (Darmian, Acerbi, Mikhi, Dzeko) and long injury spells (Skriniar, Brozo, Lukaku) to fight on 3 fronts. All this takes a toll. A mentally one. And you can motivate an exausted horse how much you want, but don`t expect to be fresh.
This season is similar with the Klopp`s season when he reached his first CL final with a thin squad. He barely took the 4th place and that also because Conte`s Chelsea imploded. Liverpool was as thin as Inter now.