My bad, four. Why would I purposely misstate a fact that supports my position? Smh.1) Don't be such a patronizing prick and then misstate facts: we have four World Cups
arguement was that tactics and lack of passion are reasons why serie a lagging. That is false. Tactics and passion are why Serie A dominated europe for years. Of course Serie A is behind, I'm not blind to this.2) Your list of excuses skates around the fact that Serie A is miles behind the Bundesliga and La Liga in terms of quality, and England financially
Then how do you explain Atletic Madrid knocking out Bayern with the same tactic? Or us vs Bayern in the 2010 UCL final? How many shots did we have that game? 2-0 is a dangerous lead to have but we're not bayern, nor are we good at possession. What we are good at is inexplicable defensive lapses. Pioli knows. Bring on pacy Eder and Bibiany (for barely 10 minutes), play on the counter. Perfectly legitimate tactic. Unfortunately Milan responded better on the day. By the way conceding that corner was stupid. But that's our defence.I meant that tactics are always over the passion, not that they are wrong or irrelevant. This also is a main reason for Jube's fail against Bayern last CL. Allegri just did same as Pioli today - went back to defend the lead and allowed to germans to make a comeback.
Then how do you explain Atletic Madrid knocking out Bayern with the same tactic? Or us vs Bayern in the 2010 UCL final? How many shots did we have that game? 2-0 is a dangerous lead to have but we're not bayern, nor are we good at possession. What we are good at is inexplicable defensive lapses. Pioli knows. Bring on pacy Eder and Bibiany (for barely 10 minutes), play on the counter. Perfectly legitimate tactic. Unfortunately Milan responded better on the day. By the way conceding that corner was stupid. But that's our defence.
Be mad at Pioli over Crotone game. Or tactics vs Samp. Those were much worse.
We can't keep blaming the coach. Yes, Pioli's had some questionable decisions but so does every other coach out there. Even Mourinho had some questionable decisions when he was here.
The answer is not always 'fire the coach'. How is it that Mazzari's Napoli was so entertaining to watch and they made it to CL every year but when he came here he was suddenly shit? How is it that Pioli's Lazio made it to CL but now at Inter he is shit? How is it that Rafa was shit here but he was so good at Napoli that De Laurantiis begged him to stay?
Since 2005 Napoli've had only 5 coaches and only one of them was fired mid-season. Now compare that to Inter; how many coaches have we had since 2005? How many of them were fired midseason?
This is all due to our weak management. They don't make the right the decision at the beginning, then fire the coach the moment things go south, rinse and repeat.
Yes, Pioli has his limitations but so do Spalletti, Allegri, Sarri and the rest. Trust me, if any of them were hired instead of Pioli they would've not achieved much better results.
How many coaches have we had since 2010? Which one of them did anything good at Inter? Firing Pioli would only make things worse. We need to have continiuty, give the coach proper support and be patient with them. Just look at our season: We had a coach (Mancini) who was the wrong coach for us from the beginning, had a disasterous preseason, left just before the season started, replaced by a noob coach who didn't know the league and couldn't even speak the language, fired the noob after 3 months, replaced him with Pioli and told Pioli either you get us CL or you are going to get replaced. Don't forget that since the first day that Pioli was appointed the rumors of a replacement didn't stop.
Could our season be any worse than this? How do you expect Pioli to work in such a hostile environment? How do you expect any coach to work in such a hostile environment?
There was some truth to that "either back me or sack me" phrase of Rafa.
I think any sane person would know what is the right decision here. We need to keep Pioli, invest in weak areas of our squad during summer, get rid of the deadweight, next year evaluate Pioli and decide early on if we want a new coach for the season after that.
Firing Pioli should only be acceptable if there is an obvious better replacement available.
No good has come from those impulsive coach firings so far and now no good would come from firing Pioli either.
Pioli's biggest fault are switching off after 2-0 lead and then subbing Murillo for Mario. Actually it is understandable if we cannot keep up our 1st half perfomance since we pressed them hard hence we ran out of stamina. Still, our performance from 75 min onward was a joke.
And I also think Biabiany and Eder substitution was the right one.
1. Biabiany is our quickest player and we need him for 2 jobs i.e. to counter attack and to help defence against merda's quick winger such as deulofeu, suso, and sosa. He is not our best player, but I cannot think other solutions especially about merda's winger.
2. Eder for Perisic is even more necessary as Perisic seemed not totally fit from the start. Eder's work rate should have make it easier for us to defend and to run forward for counter attack. The fact that he cannot connect easy pass is not Pioli's fault.