Simone Inzaghi

[Steevee]

Our issues so far this season don’t seem tactical. At least not to me. They all seem driven by attitude and approach. Even the changes today smacked of a “we don’t need to win now, we’ll win later” type of complacency. Just listen to Marotta: “This season is the longest ever” “We want to win the Champions League.” Etc.

It’s obvious the players feel the same. Whether they are the ones driving that attitude or they are just falling in line with management. I’ll assume it’s the latter, the whole building up the second star thing always seemed a bit weird to me. It kind of sets you up for a let down.

We have to be careful that this whole “the season is long” type of attitude doesn’t become an excuse to never kick into gear. Points matter from first round to 38th (unless Scudetto is already decided).

Also, winning leagues back to back is a difficult thing for some coaches. For example Ancelotti has NEVER done it in his extremely long career. Thats why you have to give credit to guys like Allegri, Pep, Conte despite sometimes underperforming in Europe. There are some managers who never let the level drop from year to year.

It should also be noted that it’s a lot easier to maintain a certain standard when your club will actually spend money. There are players in this team that have no business playing 3 matches a week. Mkhi & Acerbi looked exactly their age today.

Great post! The like function wasn't strong enough alone!

 

[Fapuccino]

When I watched the Man City game today, and they struggled with Arsenal even with 10 men down, I knew we weren't going to play well. It's not easy playing that big mid-week CL game.

The difference is Man City even 2-1 down just like us, were able to score a late equalizer. We seem utterly inept in front of goal.

 

[thatdude]

When I watched the Man City game today, and they struggled with Arsenal even with 10 men down, I knew we weren't going to play well. It's not easy playing that big mid-week CL game.

The difference is Man City even 2-1 down just like us, were able to score a late equalizer. We seem utterly inept in front of goal.

To be fair City played 45 minutes against 10 men. If we did that same I’m sure we would have find another goal.

The bigger takeaway for me is that we couldn’t find a way to hurt Man City while Arsenal could. The only thing I will say is Man City without Rodri and De Bruyne ain’t really Man City. However Arsenal also missing their captain I guess.

 

[BasedGodPunk]

Lost it on the Augusto for bastoni switch. Bastoni wasn’t playing amazing but he’s still a far superior defender. The team was falling apart and the midfield was gone, it was pretty evident at that point we needed to shut the door and just pick our chances sparingly. Going hyper attack with an obliterated midfield was an unbelievably arrogant and delusional approach.

 

[magnesium]

The moment when Hakan replaced by Asllani, i know we are going lost this one.

 

[thatdude]

Some interesting quotes from Inzaghi. I like that he’s not glossing over the defeat and the performance.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1838015043016835367

https://twitter.com/x/status/1838015723379056691

https://twitter.com/x/status/1838016690660974798

 

[Fapuccino]

I really didn't like how he pushed our entire team in the opponent's half in the second half. That's extremely offensive/risky and only works out if you actually score. Our offence was misfiring so it wasn't worth it.

That led to countless counters by Milan.

 

[ADRossi]

Third time he's done it this season. We haven't won any of the three matches.

It worked in the first match of the season against Genoa (until he returned to a structured lineup and we conceded a penalty). Then he did it again against Monza and it backfired spectacularly.

 

[Irequis]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1838015723379056691

Not sure how his logic worked. The midfielders were not functioning, let's replace them with inferior players? The only correct sub was Zielinski, but it was only because he should start instead of Mkhi. This must be Inzaghi's worst game management ever.

 

[Ffi201zi002tlis]

Besides, the last few games already showed that it's extremely hard to handle this congested schedule. Even Man City struggled af. We should sacrifice Coppa Italy or even Supercoppa. Chasing all the titles is useless. Real Madrid won big titles for years and they never had a treble season because they know how to prioritize important ones.

 

[forzainter257]

Like someone on here mentioned several years ago, if we hire Inzaghi, he is going to transform us into Lazio. This is it, it's just we have bigger wallet, hence the better results. Flashy games here and there, coppas moppas and a scudetto with least competition, that's about it. His pussy mentality will never leave him even if he takes the role at City or Madrid.

 

[vex]

Our issues so far this season don’t seem tactical. At least not to me. They all seem driven by attitude and approach. Even the changes today smacked of a “we don’t need to win now, we’ll win later” type of complacency. Just listen to Marotta: “This season is the longest ever” “We want to win the Champions League.” Etc.

It’s obvious the players feel the same. Whether they are the ones driving that attitude or they are just falling in line with management. I’ll assume it’s the latter, the whole building up the second star thing always seemed a bit weird to me. It kind of sets you up for a let down.

Yeah, agree. I can blame inzaghi for certain subs he makes, but overall tactic is fine, after all we dominated the league last year with same formation and tactical ideas, but you can only dominate again IF you have the same will and attitude, and we are kinda missing that at the moment, starting from our captain to other players as well. Don't know the reason for that tbh, whether it's just fucked up preseason, simple lack of motivation coz last year scuddetto and the way we won it was worth double or triple the normal one, or something else.

Chasing cl dream could be one possible explanation, especially when you see the effort we put midweek and compare it to an effort last night, but I doubt they are following club guidelines regarding that, despite marotta statements, I really think the players wanna it more than anyone or anything. I think we underestimate how much that final against city hurt the entire team, so much that majority of our players admitted afterward the main reason for that ferocious will and energy last season was the result of that cl final. If that shit turns into unhealthy fixation and obsession, we can completely fumble the league this year, without anything to show for at the end of the season.

 

[wera]

Get your shit together and start winning games in the league. If we don't finish in the top3, this season is a major failure.

 

[brehme1989]

Today we never had "control of the game" to begin with.

Neither did Milan until the subs

 

[brehme1989]

Get your shit together and start winning games in the league. If we don't finish in the top3, this season is a major failure.

If he somehow delivers Champions League and we finish outside top 3, honestly I won't care.

 

[Glass box]

If he somehow delivers Champions League and we finish outside top 3, honestly I won't care.

Despite all our rivals in the league having new coaches and struggling? While we, who have Inzaghi for the fourth season, play the same formation for the sixth season (although the first two seasons we had a different style of play) and don't really need time adapting? And having a squad with players that have probably won more trophies than anyone else?

The Champions league is hard to "plan" winning even for stronger teams than our. There's the group stage where you have 8 games, and we should qualify to the knockout stage, but after that we have no idea who we'll play. We could play someone who'd be a terrible matchup for us, like Real Madrid or Bayern Munich and get kicked out in February, while we'd be far behind first place in the league if we continue complacently like this.

Not saying that winning the Scudetto is easy but at least we know the schedule, these are the same teams we play every year, and we have players in the squad that won it twice already.

Going +2 Scudetti on Milan is also a good enough motivation to take it more seriously. Preventing Juventus from winning it with our own treble winner as their coach, and Napoli with Conte and Lukaku there should be enough competitive spite not to let any of these cunts win a Scudetto.

 

[CafeCordoba]

I said this in the latest episode of Inter Jections (I don't remember at which point so go and listen the whole episode ) that my theory is:

Inzaghi has built a great system, how to play football, with all the movement, player position "rotations", so called position-less football, where players backup each other and the movement is the key which creates space for these great combinations we see in our games. Even if most of our games are quite boring cycling of the ball because opponents defend well, we usually find ways to create the spaces to do our combinations and thus create chances, and eventually goals.

All this requires that the players are IN the game, they have the correct focus and mindset and the mental and physical capabilities to execute this. We are close to unstoppable when these things apply. In Serie A, there are no teams who can stop us when these things apply. Against Milan on Sunday, with our best starting XI, we saw none of that. From the minute 1, we were just total shit. And it wasn't because Fonseca had found a way to stop Inzaghiball, it was because our players weren't in the game. I mean IN the game. There wasn't enough movement, enough battling, anticipation. Everything was lacking a bit. Specially the first 10-15mins were probably the worst football we've seen from this team in Inzaghi era. Total dogshit. And that was our starting XI, supposedly our best players. Guys who won us the 2nd star with 19 points margin.

Approach and attitude was wrong, something was off. To be, subs had nothing to do with it, with the subs Inzaghi tried to bring in fresh energy since the starting XI wasn't performing. Didn't help and the reckless style of chasing the winner ended up costing us. Well, technically not since it was a setpiece goal from FK which was called in a play which started from pretty static position, but energies were burnt in receiving all those counter-attacks.

I expect a strong response in Udine. Anything less is unacceptable.

 

[DARi0]

Defending Serie A champions Inter have earned eight points in five games, the worst result for coach Inzaghi in his four-year spell at the club.

The Italian tactician gave his players a day off on Monday after a painful 2-1 loss in the derby della Madonnina against Milan. The team will resume work at the training ground today.

As reported by Gazzetta, club directors and President Beppe Marotta will follow the training session. They will also meet Inzaghi to address the issues in the opening matches of 2024-25.

The Nerazzurri executives have a habit of meeting with their coach before and after games, and although Inter are not in crisis mode, a few evident problems emerged during the opening matches of the season. Some players, for example, are still not fully fit and Inzaghi’s rotations have not been entirely successful.

Tell him about the mental approach and underestimating the opponent.

 

[Fapuccino]

Let's be real. No team plays "well" 100% of the time. There were plenty of times when we played like shit last season. But guess what happened? Lautaro stepped in. Thuram stepped in. The midfielders or wingbacks scored some wonder goal.

I realize finishing is not the only problem we have, but it certainly "masked" a lot of shit play we had last season as well.

 

[DARi0]

wtf with those subs? Did he try to save Fonseca's job?

Do you think Inzaghi is playing 4D chess?

The potential replacements are probably above Fonseca's level. It's in our interest he stays as long as possible.