Filippo Inzaghi Thread

[Rickaka]

I wish he works on defense. In this league a good defense can go a long way.

If we can't beat big teams, then no problem we can draw them and get 1 point, which is really important.

We've hardly seen anything from Pippo. You can't conclude anything out of 2 preseason games and it's far far too early to track/judge any kind of development.

And let's be honest, you can only do so much. Alex-Rami is definitely a step-up from last season but it's not going to be waterproof 100% of the time and it's unfair to ask them to be of that level. Coach is merely a coach, should work to get the best out of his players but is no miracle worker.

 

[Rickaka]

there was this guy called clarence last season, he asked for a defense coach and got booted

Would've been so sweet.

 

[Mr. Milanista]

as we've all seen in the training videos, Pippo has mostly been training in holding ball and no off the ball movement, it'll come, just chill.

 

[G.Costanza]

Defense is not dependent on defenders at all, it's a team effort. How did Juve get their defense right with Defenders like Chiellini and Bonucci? By having mids who would press the fuck out of the other team.

Rami-Alex-ZAPATA is a good decent CB trio. DeS is a good Side back, the rest is pretty meh.

Constant put on a really good performance two year ago against Barca. Reason? He was covered by mids, so he had to deal with one player at the time, which he was able to handle. If you have 6 guys running at you full speed and you're all alone then definitely you gonna slip. It's not a mistake, it's team playing bad defense.

Our midfield and wingers need to put pressure on as soon as they lose the ball. That's one of the reasons why SES is so important. It's not a coincidence that when he played Constant did a better job. He tracks back and he defends.

We need to defend as a unit, like teams like Roma or Atletico. Defenders are merely specialists protecting the box, just like Strikers. We have a really good CF in Mario but that doesn't mean our Attack is good, because it's a team effort. Every guy must play their role in both defense and attack otherwise it's gonna fail.

Why did Barca's defense turn to shit? Because they stopped pressing. It had nothing to do with defenders. Pique was not that good of a defender before he supposedly "declined". He had less to do before because guys in mid and wingers would press madly. They stopped doing that, their defense opened up.

Ramos was a beast in Madrid, a clown in Spain. Reason? The whole team didn't play defense, they would go in other team's half, and they would be countered easily since nobody wasting putting pressure on opponent immediately after they lost possession the way they did before.

I don't think anyone had Godin as a top 10 defender in the world last year, but he was the centerpiece in one of the best defensive teams.

Rami, Alex and Zapata are no Nesta, but if we fail to defend decently it's not gonna be because of these guys.

 

[Tadej]

Clarence was more prepared than pippo imo.

I am worried about him...didnt convince me so far.

 

[joyrider]

Clarence was more prepared than pippo imo.

I am worried about him...didnt convince me so far.

2 pre season friendlies

 

[Tadej]

2 pre season friendlies

And already did few mistakes...

 

[joyrider]

better now than end of august

 

[Ender]

Clarence was more prepared than pippo imo.
I am worried about him...didnt convince me so far.

You can't tell from two friendly games whether Clarence was more prepared. Let's not forget that Clarence got lucky in a few games in the last minutes and had a Taarabt in attack that the current Milan doesn't have (and I'm not counting Kaka who was on and off)

I wish he works on defense. In this league a good defense can go a long way.

If we can't beat big teams, then no problem we can draw them and get 1 point, which is really important.

A good attack can be as powerful as a good defense. Neither attack, midfield, defense or GK in this Milan team are strong, plus we don't have enough talent + bench depth to compete with other teams for CL spots. Our only hope is them being tired and having more injuries due to more games and hopefully getting into a crisis or coach firing.

I don't expect Inzaghi to get us to 3rd place. I think his realistic goal for this team next season is Europa League. If he can take us to CL than he's passed his big test with flying colors.

The first goal should be to sell Abate for 10 mill and get a decent midfielder with that money ... and I"m surprised why that hasn't happened and instead all that we hear talk is about Robinho

 

[Rickaka]

Lucky to win a game in the last minutes

o rly

 

[dcfcfan1]

Defense is not dependent on defenders at all, it's a team effort. How did Juve get their defense right with Defenders like Chiellini and Bonucci? By having mids who would press the fuck out of the other team.

Rami-Alex-ZAPATA is a good decent CB trio. DeS is a good Side back, the rest is pretty meh.

Constant put on a really good performance two year ago against Barca. Reason? He was covered by mids, so he had to deal with one player at the time, which he was able to handle. If you have 6 guys running at you full speed and you're all alone then definitely you gonna slip. It's not a mistake, it's team playing bad defense.

Our midfield and wingers need to put pressure on as soon as they lose the ball. That's one of the reasons why SES is so important. It's not a coincidence that when he played Constant did a better job. He tracks back and he defends.

We need to defend as a unit, like teams like Roma or Atletico. Defenders are merely specialists protecting the box, just like Strikers. We have a really good CF in Mario but that doesn't mean our Attack is good, because it's a team effort. Every guy must play their role in both defense and attack otherwise it's gonna fail.

Why did Barca's defense turn to shit? Because they stopped pressing. It had nothing to do with defenders. Pique was not that good of a defender before he supposedly "declined". He had less to do before because guys in mid and wingers would press madly. They stopped doing that, their defense opened up.

Ramos was a beast in Madrid, a clown in Spain. Reason? The whole team didn't play defense, they would go in other team's half, and they would be countered easily since nobody wasting putting pressure on opponent immediately after they lost possession the way they did before.

I don't think anyone had Godin as a top 10 defender in the world last year, but he was the centerpiece in one of the best defensive teams.

Rami, Alex and Zapata are no Nesta, but if we fail to defend decently it's not gonna be because of these guys.

good post, thats why muntari-de jong could be useful to us next season

 

[joyrider]

You can't tell from two friendly games whether Clarence was more prepared. Let's not forget that Clarence got lucky in a few games in the last minutes and had a Taarabt in attack that the current Milan doesn't have (and I'm not counting Kaka who was on and off)

we have ses now......players didn't like seedorf because seedorf told them to do stuff they hadn't done in 3 years, seedorf used carlettos methods

 

[irkuysm]

I thought Inzaghi is more fond toward Ancellotti methods?

 

[Sorriso Sempre]

You can't tell from two friendly games whether Clarence was more prepared. Let's not forget that Clarence got lucky in a few games in the last minutes and had a Taarabt in attack that the current Milan doesn't have (and I'm not counting Kaka who was on and off)



A good attack can be as powerful as a good defense. Neither attack, midfield, defense or GK in this Milan team are strong, plus we don't have enough talent + bench depth to compete with other teams for CL spots. Our only hope is them being tired and having more injuries due to more games and hopefully getting into a crisis or coach firing.

I don't expect Inzaghi to get us to 3rd place. I think his realistic goal for this team next season is Europa League. If he can take us to CL than he's passed his big test with flying colors.

The first goal should be to sell Abate for 10 mill and get a decent midfielder with that money ... and I"m surprised why that hasn't happened and instead all that we hear talk is about Robinho

clarence didnt have pre season.he got a team with below zero morale and fitness lvls about 40minutes of play(which is shit considering serie a is not a high pace league) and still finished 3rd in the league during his time..
i have faith in pipo and he can do good work.but the problem is neither pipo nor clarence...the problem is and and the fact that we have players worthy of palermo still paying most money in serie for their wages...

 

[Montolivo]

Defense is not dependent on defenders at all, it's a team effort. How did Juve get their defense right with Defenders like Chiellini and Bonucci? By having mids who would press the fuck out of the other team.

Rami-Alex-ZAPATA is a good decent CB trio. DeS is a good Side back, the rest is pretty meh.

Constant put on a really good performance two year ago against Barca. Reason? He was covered by mids, so he had to deal with one player at the time, which he was able to handle. If you have 6 guys running at you full speed and you're all alone then definitely you gonna slip. It's not a mistake, it's team playing bad defense.

Our midfield and wingers need to put pressure on as soon as they lose the ball. That's one of the reasons why SES is so important. It's not a coincidence that when he played Constant did a better job. He tracks back and he defends.

We need to defend as a unit, like teams like Roma or Atletico. Defenders are merely specialists protecting the box, just like Strikers. We have a really good CF in Mario but that doesn't mean our Attack is good, because it's a team effort. Every guy must play their role in both defense and attack otherwise it's gonna fail.

Why did Barca's defense turn to shit? Because they stopped pressing. It had nothing to do with defenders. Pique was not that good of a defender before he supposedly "declined". He had less to do before because guys in mid and wingers would press madly. They stopped doing that, their defense opened up.

Ramos was a beast in Madrid, a clown in Spain. Reason? The whole team didn't play defense, they would go in other team's half, and they would be countered easily since nobody wasting putting pressure on opponent immediately after they lost possession the way they did before.

I don't think anyone had Godin as a top 10 defender in the world last year, but he was the centerpiece in one of the best defensive teams.

Rami, Alex and Zapata are no Nesta, but if we fail to defend decently it's not gonna be because of these guys.

Pressing isnt just the problem.. its not that easy.

And what do you mean defenders like chiellini? He is a top defender and has been for years.

 

[WILL2K]

I hope Pippo tries a new formation other than 4-3-3.

I don't even mind Carlo's Xmas tree or 4-4-2. For the time being, I believe we need a stronger midfield that will help out the defence.

 

[AndreiX]

I hope Pippo tries a new formation other than 4-3-3.

I don't even mind Carlo's Xmas tree or 4-4-2. For the time being, I believe we need a stronger midfield that will help out the defence.

Or a mirrored Sacchi 442 with Poli playing cm-ish RM

 

[Sorriso Sempre]

Or a mirrored Sacchi 442 with Poli playing cm-ish RM

sacchi had a mid of donadoni ancelotti rijikard and colombo.do you see how far in quality terms we are??

+poli should be nothing more than a rotation player not a starter at all

 

[Ender]

clarence didnt have pre season.he got a team with below zero morale and fitness lvls about 40minutes of play(which is shit considering serie a is not a high pace league) and still finished 3rd in the league during his time..
i have faith in pipo and he can do good work.but the problem is neither pipo nor clarence...the problem is and and the fact that we have players worthy of palermo still paying most money in serie for their wages...

We got quite reinforcements on that transfer, we got Taarabt and Rami who were arguably our best players in the second half of the season ... especially Rami who scored goals, made assists and also helped shore up the aerial defense ... without counting Pazzini coming back and Honda + Essien. Yes, they weren't great all the time but were better than our previous backups that we had in the bench.

Inzaghi this year doesn't have Taarabt, Kaka and Montolivo and basically is a worse offensively than Seedorf's Milan because those three players were starters and they were the ones that linked attack and midfield last year and worked in through passes ... having El Shaarawy and Niang so far has shown to be insufficient.

 

[Brutalitops]

Pippo's only mistake was taking the job, no one could save this Milan. Sell before we die

 

[irkuysm]

Pippo cant save this team with shitty players. Would not blame him 100% if he failed.

 

[Blade of Faith]

Cancel the season already.

 

[WILL2K]

Decent 2nd half, there was an improvement. Still early to judge still optimistic.

 

[jammin]

So what's our Plan B?

 

[Shadow47]

can't wait for him to get fired, and then the next coach, and the next coach, and the next coach

would somebody please make it stop?

 

[Curupira]

I hope Inzaghi at least pushes for the fodder to be out.

 

[necromancer]

If Zampa was our Presidente, he would fire Pippo and simply use the other manager with whom we have a running contract: Seedorf.

 

[King George]

I have no doubt we'll be ready by end of month. Keep working hard pippo!!

 

[Ender]

So fun thing, when Allegri lost with this team (more or less), it was Allegri's fault. Now, it is shitty team that even great coaches wouldn't be able to save. Hmm.

 

[Casualista]

Bibbo didnt bring matri. Thats a promising seedorf