Simone Inzaghi

Will Simone Inzaghi win a Scudetto at Inter?


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Think it sums it up fairly. I was hopeful to see more goals out of Taremi given his preseason start tbh but will also admit he hasn't been given a load of space yet.
 

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Think it sums it up fairly. I was hopeful to see more goals out of Taremi given his preseason start tbh but will also admit he hasn't been given a load of space yet.
Or to be even more specific, he didn't give him proper space to build a playing momentum. He is literally being used for one of lautaro/thuram to get rest. And I get that, but also have a feeling he is a type of player that needs some continuity to get in form.
 

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Or to be even more specific, he didn't give him proper space to build a playing momentum. He is literally being used for one of lautaro/thuram to get rest. And I get that, but also have a feeling he is a type of player that needs some continuity to get in form.
Yeah that's fair. I would have hoped he'd scored one or two already given his pre season form and 4 full matches but I do agree with your point
 

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Gazzetta have an interesting article about Inter's attack today. While we create more chances than last season our conversion rate is much worse. Last season it was at 50%, this season is at 35% so far. Another problem is we aren't getting any goals from our backup forwards. Even Taremi whose contribution is considered positive so far is still at 0 goals in the league. We badly need goals from the bench.
I think the issue is due to we have only backup strikers that either are keen to play or just very natural to play the deep lying striker role, we don't exactly have a true number 9 as a backup Taremi is already closer like LM, who is a complete striker, but Taremi is very keen to play deep lying more than the finisher, Arna needs to improve on his basic finishing though, despite he is more a SS than a F.

The real underlying issue for our goal scoring condition is LM, last year he was G90 was 0.8, and his xG90 was 0.67.
This year is 0.54 and 0.58 respectively, so not only has his conversion dropped, him finding chances/good chances also dropped significantly.

Also funny enough, this team shoot per 90 increased, aligning with what you stated, but our team xG90 dropped, so the chances increased, but the quality dropped, which doesn't come to a surprise, if one has been following the matches, like the Monza match, we just been crossing the ball, and the player shuffled less to create chances, instead we attack in numbers with different zone attacking; my guess is a lot of these micro tactic changes are due to reserving energy for a more compact schedule.

Inzaghi is balancing a lot of trade offs this year, but LM dropped in performance is a combination of the tactics and his condition, but with no doubt we rely too much on one player to score, even Thuram stepped up this year big time, it is not enough to cover.

My hope is LM will be picking up very soon, and it seems like the case.
 

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In Inzhagi I trust!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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If this is how our defense is gonna be for the rest of the season, Scudetto is a lock. We were able to absorb everything Arsenal came to us with. Huge win, smart rotation and let's hope for a convincing win against Napoli this weekend. Grande Inzaghi
 

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If this is how our defense is gonna be for the rest of the season, Scudetto is a lock. We were able to absorb everything Arsenal came to us with. Huge win, smart rotation and let's hope for a convincing win against Napoli this weekend. Grande Inzaghi

This type of bus parking blows up in your face sooner or later. It should be a temporary solution, not long term.
 

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This type of bus parking blows up in your face sooner or later. It should be a temporary solution, not long term.
The fact that he rested Barella, Dimarco, Thuram, missing Acerbi and Mikhy doesn't tell you that it was a tactical choice to set up the defense like that? We'll be back to our usual self, i wasn't talking about the actual parking the bus, but rather how our defenders did not lose control and was an actual unit the whole match.
 

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The fact that he rested Barella, Dimarco, Thuram, missing Acerbi and Mikhy doesn't tell you that it was a tactical choice to set up the defense like that? We'll be back to our usual self, i wasn't talking about the actual parking the bus, but rather how our defenders did not lose control and was an actual unit the whole match.

Sure, but we ended the game against City like this too. Just stopped playing for the last 30 minutes.
 

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Sure, but we ended the game against City like this too. Just stopped playing for the last 30 minutes.
Idk, isn't that something that you people hate about Inzaghi? That he has no second plan? We were 1-0 and without our full line up we wouldn't have been able to score the second goal. It was smarter to defend like that as can be seen from the result.
 

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Leipzig next in CL. A tricky match because Leipzig is underperforming atm. Win this too and we are almost confirmed to be in top8.
 

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Well I must say, Inzaghi seems to know what he doing. Excellent tactics and ballsy rotation.
He's the best coach in CL/European games we had in recent history after Mourinho. Cuper is behind him. Not counting the 90's UEFA cup wins since I don't remember them and they aren't recent at this point anyway
 

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Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi is adaptable, astute and Premier League-ready​

By James Horncastle
Nov 7, 2024

No matter how Simone Inzaghi twists his Rubik’s Cube in the Champions League, the surfaces always show blue and black. It is the trait of a coach in complete control of his squad.

Inzaghi made five changes to his starting line-up before Inter Milan’s 1-0 home win against Arsenal on Wednesday. They did not, on paper, strengthen the team. On the contrary, the side he put out on a foggy night at San Siro was the sort Inzaghi might be expected to field next month in the early rounds of the Coppa Italia.

Except for midfielder Davide Frattesi, Inter’s national-team core was either out injured (as was the case with the Erling Haaland-muzzling Francesco Acerbi) or wrapped up on the bench (Alessandro Bastoni, Federico Dimarco and Nicolo Barella). Keeping the trio company was Inter’s top scorer this season, Marcus Thuram.

It was a big call from Inzaghi.

When he played Marko Arnautovic instead of Thuram against Young Boys in the previous Champions League game a fortnight ago, the Austrian missed a penalty. Thuram then came on and scored the only goal of the game in stoppage time.

It brought back memories of last season’s round-of-16 first leg against Atletico Madrid, when Inter dominated and should have won by a far bigger scoreline than 1-0. Arnautovic did score that night but only after a couple of glaring misses. He had come on for Thuram, whose injury in the first half feels, in retrospect, like a major turning point in the tie.

Ever since, leaving the Frenchman out has been viewed as a risk.

Mehdi Taremi, a free-agent transfer from Porto in the summer, joined as an upgrade on Arnautovic but his Inter career has yet to take off, despite a goal and two assists in last month’s 4-0 win against Red Star Belgrade in this competition.

Nevertheless, Inzaghi trusted his gut and his players against Arsenal. He shuffled two-thirds of his back three and did the same in midfield. Things changed but remained more or less the same. Inter won again in the Champions League and kept a fourth consecutive clean sheet against Arsenal.

Aside from the opening salvos, when Denzel Dumfries rattled the frame of David Raya’s goal and Hakan Calhanoglu hit a trademark long-distance shot just past the post, Inter were not their slick, interchanging best. Calhanoglu’s penalty in first-half stoppage time, the 19th in a row converted in his Inter career, was their only shot on target.

“The result is all that matters,” Inzaghi said afterwards, but other aspects of the performance were significant.

Defender Yann Bisseck has looked talented but raw since Inter signed him from Aarhus in Denmark a year ago. Inzaghi has placed more faith in the 23-year-old this season and has not always been rewarded. Lapses in concentration by the former Germany youth international made September’s 3-2 win against Udinese, for instance, too close for comfort. Last night felt like a breakthrough.

Bukayo Saka was stifled against the physicality of Bisseck, who Inzaghi cleverly on the left. The German is right-footed and that facilitated him when Saka looked to come inside. The choice of the more conservative Matteo Darmian over the flying Dimarco at wing-back also ensured help was never far from Bisseck, who put in a man-of-the-match performance.

“Inter won all’Italiana,” Clarence Seedorf said as a pundit on Amazon Prime’s match broadcast in Italy — the old school, ‘catenaccio’ way. It was a compliment.

“There came a point when they locked the door, threw away the key and said, ‘No one’s getting through here’,” Seedorf continued.

While the style doesn’t reflect who Inter have been these past four years under Inzaghi, they got the job done. Napoli are up next, back at San Siro on Sunday, in a top-of-the-table clash. Antonio Conte’s Serie A leaders aren’t in Europe this season so can spend the week resting, recuperating and game-planning. Inzaghi does not possess the same luxury and needed his alternates to pick up the slack against last year’s Premier League runners-up.

The fact he kept his powder relatively dry for the weekend and still beat Arsenal is a testament to Inzaghi’s squad management. “When I say that we have 23 starters, it’s not bombast: I believe it,” he said. Getting them all to lock in, though, is easier said than done and Inzaghi achieved it.

He has done a remarkable job in making Inter credible again in Europe. They have been a force to be reckoned with every year under him. Inzaghi got them out of the group stage for the first time in almost a decade in his 2021-22 debut season. Then, in his second, he guided Inter to their first Champions League final in 13 years. Last season, they could and perhaps should have made it all the way back to the final, but Atletico beat them on penalties.

In terms of going deep in Europe for a sustained period, this era resembles the 1990s, when Inter reached four UEFA Cup finals (today’s Europa League). By contrast, the Serie A-Champions League-Coppa Italia treble in 2010 came relatively out of the blue. Irrespective of manager Jose Mourinho’s presence and the feeling Inter had been building towards it, at least domestically by winning five league titles in a row, no one spoke about them as among the favourites. They were disappointing in Europe.

Not anymore.

Inzaghi believes the shift in mentality happened when Inter beat Liverpool 1-0 at Anfield in the spring of 2022, albeit they lost that last-16 tie. A year later, they returned from losing the Champions League final to Manchester City convinced they were every bit as good as Pep Guardiola’s treble winners and could have beaten a team that had just made history. This season, Inter have held the same opponents to a 0-0 draw at their Etihad Stadium and now defeated Arsenal with a starting XI featuring four free agents, the €6.9million (£5.7m; $7.4m) Yann Sommer in goal, and €7.2m Bisseck doubling up on Saka with the €3.3m Darmian.

Nobody should doubt Inzaghi’s ability to succeed in the Premier League, should the opportunity arise. But, as was the case at Massimiliano Allegri’s peak with Juventus in the 2010s, his language skills and brand could still use further amplification.

Inzaghi spent time in London while his son Tommaso, now an agent, attended the University of Westminster, but his English remains rudimentary and you wonder if he will follow Allegri and Luciano Spalletti in missing the Premier League train caught by Conte, Carlo Ancelotti, Claudio Ranieri and Roberto De Zerbi.

“All coaches would like to (test themselves in England),” Inzaghi said this week. “The football there is fascinating. I’m not going to deny it was a possibility recently, both when I was at Lazio and at Inter, but I was happy at Lazio and I’m happy here. It intrigues me. I like it. But I’m at Inter, one of the best clubs in Europe.”
 

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These English articles always have to twist any subject back to the EPL and how every coach has to go there to "really" prove themselves :rolleyes::sleep:

On a different note I think it's a fantastic sign to Inzaghi's management skills and the team cohesiveness that he can switch the starting line up so often and players accept it. I was watching a video of Thuram talk on the CBS show about this very thing, and he seemed very comfortable with it
 

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^We also have to give the clubmanagement credit for that. It's clear to see how they are specifically looking at the mentality and character of the player to bring in. - They are all levelheaded players who will not create drama in the teamroom.
 
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