Simone Inzaghi

[Nyall]

Yes, but our most conservative/defensive possible WB's when we sure needed a goal.

We need to not concede more than we needed to score.

Getting to a penalty shoot out gave us a chance at winning.

Having 3 guys who shit the bed cost us that.

 

[Alex de Large]

Of course Buchanan. only alternative to Dimarco and Dumfries.

 

[pupivn]

Bisseck sub is the best one tbh, Thuram, Mkhi should be out way earlier.

 

[Javier'sSon]

Asllani is rather popular with the crowd. At least then we wouldn't reach the PK shootout.

I would have had him instead of the Dutch cunt, he's good in dead ball situations.

 

[Nyall]

I‘m on board with this, but not today of all days. He had the chance to insert a pacey player to shake things up upfront, but decided to leave him at the bench.

I also have no idea why Bastoni had to leave the pitch for Acerbi and neither did him looking at his reaction. The timing of subbing Mkhi was also questionable with him making glaring mistakes around the 60 minute mark.

Don’t get me wrong he’s doing a fantastic job with this team, but today he should have focused on us playing our game and not on containing Atleti‘s game. This was the deciding factor in the game. It is on him, and he has to learn from it, because certainly it is not a punishable mistake if you look over the course of the whole season.

Who the hell do you think we are?

Real Madrid and Barcelona don't go there and play their game and you think we're just gonna walk in there with our guys and just dominate Atletico?

Are you guys delusional?

 

[brehme1989]

I would have had him instead of the Dutch cunt, he's good in dead ball situations.

He's also good at giving possession to the opposition because he fumbles his controls and isn't moving in the correct positions.

Klaassen coming on didn't make sense either, but neither did Mkhitaryan playing 120+ minutes.

So what to do?

 

[brehme1989]

Who the hell do you think we are?

Real Madrid and Barcelona don't go there and play their game and you think we're just gonna walk in there with our guys and just dominate Atletico?

Are you guys delusional?

You must have taken a break from here in the last couple of weeks.

(The answer is yes)

 

[varmin]

Exactly..

People coming here.. talking about his subs being horrific.. ignoring the fact that this was his fucking bench..

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Like who exactly was he supposed to bring on? Audero?

We have Buchanan since January and he is still like a novice in the team.
The sub Darmian for Dumfries was good, but the other created a havoc in our defense. Bastoni and Dimarco should have stayed and eventually Bisseck could have replaced Pavard. Frattesi should have come in for Mkhitaryan, not Barella. Barella was one of the few, who participated in both phases of the game. With his subs we just invited Atletico in our penalty area, without any real chance of counter attacking.

 

[Nyall]

Yes, but our most conservative/defensive possible WB's when we sure needed a goal.

It really wasn't. If Augusto wasn't hurt he'd be on the left and it would be a line up we use regularly. He wasn't being deliberately defensive, Bisseck was better for the situation than Buchanan was.

 

[IM21]

The goal was clearly not the champions league, cause if it was, we would have taken the group stage serious... so thats the only thing i can blame inzaghi for... i also dont think this team was winning this competition anyway... city, bayern, real are all better. There was also no easy road to the finals as last year.

 

[Nyall]

We have Buchanan since January and he is still like a novice in the team.
The sub Darmian for Dumfries was good, but the other created a havoc in our defense. Bastoni and Dimarco should have stayed and eventually Bisseck could have replaced Pavard. Frattesi should have come in for Mkhitaryan, not Barella. Barella was one of the few, who participated in both phases of the game. With his subs we just invited Atletico in our penalty area, without any real chance of counter attacking.

You're picking at straws and being a reactionary.

The subs didn't cause the havoc. The havoc came when Simeone brought on his subs that were good enough to be starters for us. Dempay and Riquelme were 100 percent, Bastoni and Dimarco were tired as was Barella. Saul and Correa were fresh in the middle.

 

[IM21]

Players should be proud... lol, yea sure.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1768054428387492102

 

[M.Adnan]

The subs didn't cause the havoc. The havoc came when Simeone brought on his subs that were good enough to be starters for us. Dempay and Riquelme were 100 percent, Bastoni and Dimarco were tired as was Barella.

Spot on. Also those very same players have just wrapped up the Scudetto in February with little squad depth. They're out of breath at this point.

Meanwhile Atletico are relaxing at 4th place with more depth.

 

[varmin]

You're picking at straws and being a reactionary.

The subs didn't cause the havoc. The havoc came when Simeone brought on his subs that were good enough to be starters for us. Dempay and Riquelme were 100 percent, Bastoni and Dimarco were tired as was Barella.

Darmian is defensive WB, and Pavard is a defender actually. Barella was the only of of the mids, who was a goalscoring threat till the moment he left. Mkhitaryan was even more tired than him.
I'm agree that Bastoni and Dimarco were tired, but they could have survived few minutes more. Dimarco could have been replaced, because he wasn't very good in defensе, but Bastoni out was a huge mistake.

 

[IM21]

Wtf dude. Players are not used to losing? Yea, sure perhaps not this season, but these same players were losing left and right last season.... you just showed that you cant coach a team in two competitons and thats what makes you just good and not great.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1768055474778247551

 

[M.Adnan]

you just showed that you cant coach a team in two competitons and thats what makes you just good and not great.

Come on man. The guy has made us relevant in Europe with a bunch of expired and retiring players. Everyone's been talking about Inter this year because of him.

 

[thatdude]

I can’t help but think back to the decision to not play our starting strikers together at all against Sociedad. We never even fought for the first place in the CL group. What that means is you end up facing a powerhouse very early in the competition.

In hindsight the decision looks worse and worse everyday especially now given our league position. Maybe we roll the dice and we still draw against Sociedad but we never even made our best effort. We essentially surrendered the first position with no fight at home on the last match day. That’s the inexcusable decision, not the ones today.

Regarding today’s game, I saw again today the team I saw away at Juventus earlier in the season. Too much respect given to the opponent. Playing with too much fear of turning the ball over. No ruthlessness.

Inzaghi has to find his middle ground, he hasn’t gotten the approach right in knockout competitions this year. We approached this match like a league game where both teams would be satisfied with a draw. You still have to go out and try and win UCL matches.

 

[Jnr]

People coming here in Simone thread writing some really stupid shit after he's on a course to winning a scudetto in April. What do you want the Zaccheroni or Hector Cuper back or what.

We have shitty subs and we stumbled to a quality team . Atletico just lost to freaking Cadiz with same lineup , but they turned up tonight!! This is the beauty of football!!

26th May. We will celebrate. Pep Guardiola and Atletico loss @Wanda. Check.

 

[IM21]

Come on man. The guy has made us relevant in Europe with a bunch of expired and retiring players. Everyone's been talking about Inter this year because of him.

How are we relevant. We went out twice in top 16 and got to the finals, by beating shitty teams, which everyone in the world points out at. Our fans think we are relevant, no one else does.

 

[Kova10]

Who the hell do you think we are?

Real Madrid and Barcelona don't go there and play their game and you think we're just gonna walk in there with our guys and just dominate Atletico?

Are you guys delusional?

Nah actually I always supported Inzaghi, Lauti, etc. and still will, because they are doing a marvelous job in general, but tonight was simply not good enough, and I hope and think that he will see that himself.

Let’s split the game into scenarios:

- Atletico dominated the first 15-20ish minutes which is totally expectable and understandable, as they try to impose themselves infront of their own crowd. This part I can fully live with.

- After the 20 minute mark we start finding into the game and control the game by having possession. The most noticeable thing though: even if we have the possibility to go fast, we rather break up, take no risks, and play slowly from the back. This part I can partly live with. Why? Because you set the tone that you’re there to let the 90 minutes run down, so Atletico realizes we are not dangerous at all. The only two times we decide to play fast result in a chance (Dumfries), and in a goal (Dimarco).

- Very shortly after we concede a goal, and lose our control, which is fully ok, because Atletico gets a gasp at being able to overturn the result. The half time whistle saves us. The second half starts the same style. This part I can fully live with.

- After the 55minute mark we start figuring out a way to release us out of the press finally; Sommer kicks it high, we play it back and control possession and tempo without being pressed, because the goalkeeper kick already sends the opponent back. Now this is the part where we lose the game in my opinion. Mkhitariyan miscontrols three passes and fails at a shot around this mark. Knowing that we have Frattesi at the bench, we should have initially brought in Frattesi here, because Mkhi was visibly not concentrated enough (look who lets the assist for the 2-1 get through btw).
Furthermore we are finally in a cruise control mode, and what does Inzaghi decide? He takes out Bastoni for Acerbi. I shouldn’t explain why this is wrong obviously seeing Bastonis strengths vs seeing Acerbis strengths in this particular phase of the game.
The pinnacle was the sub of Bisseck for Dimarco which basically signalised Simeone to come at us with full strength which is what happened.

Long story short, no I don’t expect us the dominate a whole game against Atleti away, but I expect a coach like him (to me a coach of the highest levels) to be able to read this situation. We were in a very comfortable position even though it was only 1-1, but didn’t make use of it, because he did not read the game correctly and exposed slow and big CBs against pacey and tricky players.

He had a chance to correct the path somewhat by taking out either Pavard or Devrij for Buchanan in order to press Atletico in the extra time, as they were visibly dead, but he went on to make a further mistake by putting in Klaassen for Mkhi in a moment where the things didn’t happen in midfield whatsoever.