The complaining haters don't even grasp how spectacular the set up and the tactics was from Inzaghi.
We didn't even park the bus, and we shot more, with more big chances, and a higher xG.
Man city even had trouble at the back cause our pressing and tactics was something they've never seen before or dealt with, it is very different than their usual PL teams pressing. They cannot play their usual game, so they prepared something different; they didn't even use direct long ball and use Halland as pivot point till the last 3 games of theirs before ours.
Not to mention they try to hold the line, instead of pressing up in certain moments, which was very not them.
The defense set up was great, the formation naturally nullifies their regular attacking space, namely the half-space; except for the one time slip up from Bastoni, don't blame him but he got a few nice dominating clean tackle that encouraged him to go for the ball, and that was the one time they were able to do their regular thing cause the half space was not covered, and with a bit of luck the defection, but then none of the inter players rushed to the shooter.
The only weakest we had on the defensive piece was the side to mid switch, which was only exposed only 3 times in the gamel; but over all even the weak link of the formation was covered well, as the strikers helped out.
When we decided to go toe to toe and open up and attack, the timing was right, but we missed our chances and they tuned back to our new rhythm and tempo, the switch from Dzeko gave Lukaku some advantage, cause the caliber was different, he had a nice flick, but as the time went by, their CB was almost perfect in the ariel for our long ball; also that was when Lautaro's chance happened, we pressed more aggressively, again change of play.
I really expected a 2:1 win, which was very close to the xG.
Long rant, but how the fuck do people blame Inzaghi, like quick question, WTF?
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