I was one of the people who wanted Inzaghi gone after our terrible run of form, but I've changed my mind on him based on what he's shown. After the Monza game I thought there was no chance we make Top 4, but credit to him for turning the situation around.
The rotations every second matchday seemed to really work for this group. Despite the fact we have some average players that need to leave, I think Inzaghi realized the importance of keeping our important players fresh and it paid off.
As much blame as he gets for playing guys like Gagliardini and Correa, he doesn't really have many options as those guys are part of the first team and rotation players. We have 6 midfielders and 4 strikers and he is using all of the players. I wish Asllani was getting some of Gagliardini's minutes but obviously Inzaghi feels that Gagliardini is better suited to one role while Asllani works better in another.
We've seen many coaches get to a point where the cycle of bad results just never ends (Pioli when he was managing us for example), or they limp over the finish line (Spalletti in 2018-2019). One thing that impressed me is how well this team has played since our bad form. Obviously not every game has been great (Fiorentina second half), but for the most part we have played really good football in the last few months. I went into the Atalanta game worried about tiredness but Inzaghi instructed the team to come out and attack Atalanta from the start, which makes sense given Atalanta tend to concede a lot of goals at the beginning of games.
Anyway, I think he's shown that he learned from the first half of the season imo. I thought he would persist with his high-line where we would be destroyed as soon as we lose the ball high up the pitch, but he's shown different ways of playing and approaching games. I think he deserves a lot of credit for how we approached games such as Lazio, Milan (Euroderby first match) and Atalanta. Even in the Napoli match, I was fine with our approach given the rotation and I believe we go away with a draw if Gagliardini didn't lose his head.
I'm hoping he can have a good future with us as I actually like the guy and think he has us playing the best football we've played in quite some time. The team may not be as organized as they were under Conte, but I'm enjoying the games more and the team does not seem to be afraid of the big games in CL, which is really important. At the end of the day, our financial situation means it's more important to get as far in CL as possible.
He also hasn't been lucky in terms of transfers. Let's not forget he had to wait until the last days of the transfer window just to get Acerbi, after the team missed out on Bremer, and the whole Skriniar fiasco (plus Skriniar coming into the season really slowly due to his injury over the summer).
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