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Speaker: Welcome to the Italian football podcast.
Speaker: OK, only one place to start. Inter versus Roma. Inter took the lead. But for the fourth time this season after taking the lead, they ended up losing the game. This match has plunged Simoni and Zagat into absolute crisis. It has really divided the Inter fanbase after the game. A legary out hashtag was trending on social media after the game. And from what I exactly
Speaker: Not Alegria. Alegria is always trending. Hello, Mr. Freud. You're going to pin this on Alegria as well, are you?
Speaker: Well, you would love to, you would love to swap managers. So why not? I think for their sakes more than anyone. I think, I think, yeah, I do. I would. I think Simoni and Zaghi were the squad that you have. I think it would suit him more and his football more maybe. So are you, so are you then from that? Are you in Zaghi out then?
Speaker: No, absolutely not. I think it would be suicide in this situation. Look, my take on managers is very simple. It's always been like this. And I saw Claudio Ranieri saying the same thing today.
Speaker: that the only time you change a manager is if he's lost a dressing room. And I think it's evident that that's not happened here. So they believe in him, and they're fully behind him. DiMarco almost got angry when he was asked this for the fifth time after the game against Roma. In an interview with Sport Media, I said almost snapping, saying, look, we're all behind in Zagi, period. Stop asking.
Speaker: Um, pretty much. Um, so, and we've heard the same things from Lautaro, from Handano, et cetera, et cetera. So it's, um, the players are fully behind him. And also I've got to say, I mean, just going off the game against Roma, the gate, just in and of itself, I thought this was, I agree with Simone and Zagis.
Speaker: analysis that this was Inter's best performance of this season. Now, granted, it wasn't a very fantastic performance. It was an okay, decent performance. It wasn't a great performance, but it was Inter's best performance overall, performance -wise, on the pitch this season. And I agree with what he says, that this is his Inter, like they played like his Inter. I think the first goal, the lead -up to the first goal, even Rui Patrice, should absolutely have done better.
Speaker: on the finish, I think the lead -up to the goal was Inzaghi Ball, without a doubt. And I think that's encouraging. I think the reasoning to loss this game is more down to individual lapses of concentration for the winner, absolutely. I mean, what Scrinyar and Nacerbi and the rest of the back three are doing is
Speaker: absolutely beyond me, but also Samir Handanovic. That is a very savable shot. Mike Manion saves that shot. Alex Merritt saves that shot.
Speaker: Dibala won the equalizer. These are key moments in the game where your goalkeeper, if you're a top team, you have to have a top goalkeeper who makes those decisive saves. And Andana, which is just not doing them anymore, he's too inconsistent because before that he made two really good saves on a
Speaker: on shots that were you know if it had gone in it would have it wouldn't have counted because there was a free kick when can't remember who was who stood on Dem Dumfrey's foot and basically took a shoe off so you know that would that would that goal wouldn't have stood but he made two saves there but then when he's actually supposed to make a save and that is a very savable shot I don't care what anyone says the ball goes straight at him it wasn't like a thunderbolt by Di Bala
Speaker: Where you know was a rocket it wasn't he he hits the ball. It's a good finish, but it's absolutely savable It's not you know, I'm not asking for the moon here. I'm asking for a ball coming at the goalkeeper He should be able to save that and he should because his reactions fight three years ago He would have saved that because his reactions were better. He's slow. It's slower now and it's only natural This isn't a critique of you and I know it is father time is undefeated You know the older the get you the older you get
Speaker: your reactions deteriorate. And that's true of everybody in life, not just football. But Simonian Zaghi, yes, I think he has a responsibility. I think, again, the reactive
Speaker: The reactor substitutions, I tweeted four minutes before the goal came. Now's the time to make the substitutions. And he did them immediately after Vloma scored what became the winner. That is absolutely on him. This is something he needs to react quicker. It's as simple as that. And also he needs to make the Onana replacing Handanovich thing permanent.
Speaker: even if it risks pissing off Samir Andanovic, because he said himself after the game, what was very diplomatic, I thought that was really intelligent of him to say that, he said that we didn't deserve to lose the game, our goalkeeper didn't even have to make a save, or didn't even make a save, not have to, didn't even make a save. You can interpret that both ways. You can interpret that as saying, well, they didn't create anything Roma, and the two goals were to make of that what you will,
Speaker: And the other way to interpret that is Sameel Hadanovic is not good enough to start and didn't make a single save, which is also true. So, yeah, that's a really interesting statement by him. But I think
Speaker: No, to sack him at this point, when there's no real option, there's really nobody to replace him. There's nobody to, if they can't afford to pay another manager. And the natural replacement would be Yoki Tomastukul, given that he plays three back three. But where are you going to find the money? And would Tukil even be interested? I mean, it's just, no, absolutely not. And also, above all, he's got the player still behind him.
Speaker: Yeah, I think, listen, I think, absolutely, you don't sack him, but something has to change because, you know, as the famous saying is, you know, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Well, you know, I raised the beginning of the season about the 3 -5 -2 formation and whether Inter have been found out, whether
Speaker: It's become too predictable and I am now I'm starting to think more and more that they need to they need to make a change because You know you look at the results you look at the performances Into this season have five wins five losses in all competitions five losses in their last eight games Which is you know, that's borderline relegation form. So, you know
Speaker: something something has to change. He said at the end of the game that this was in his best performance of the season. And I don't know, given how into a play this season and underperformed maybe it was the best performance of the season but
Speaker: If this is the best performance of the season, then it's just not good enough because, you know, although Inter controlled the game, they barely created a clear cut chance, the whole game. There was the DeMarco goal, which, as you said, was a well crafted goal.
Speaker: But yes, the keeper should have saved it. But it was that was we could maybe call a clear cut chance. Apart from that, can you name me a clear cut chance in the whole game? I can't I can't think of one. Well, I mean, the offside goal that was buried there was just just offside. Yeah, but it was offside. The free kick is not a clear cut chance. It's a free kick. Apart from that, Inter didn't create any clear cut chances. Do I think they deserve to lose? No.
Speaker: Do I think they deserve to win? No, I don't. In fact, you look at the XG and Inter's XG was 0 .7. 0 .7 in this game, actually, Roma's was 1 .04 or something. So, you know, the stats show it as well. And, you know, I think that Inter have become, are becoming predictable, both offensively and defensively.
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