Serie A Superthread

irishman86 wrote: »

I like him but christ he believes his own hype
Some of the goals hes let in are scandalous

Pretty dodgy on the crosses as well

Still a superb talent though

dor83 wrote: »

Inter v Roma kicks off at 19:45, line ups are:

Inter: Handanovic; Cancelo, Skriniar, Miranda, Santon; Gagliardini, Vecino; Candreva, Borja Valero, Perisic; Icardi

Roma: Alisson; Florenzi, Manolas, Fazio, Kolarov; Pellegrini, Strootman, Gerson; Nainggolan, Dzeko, El Shaarawy

I hope Perisic plays better after the break because until we can play Rafinha (assuming he comes) behind the front two, we don't have anything to offer centrally. That's not an attack on Valero, he's good, but he should be regista not trequartista.

Santon is a disaster, I wouldn't want him if I supported AlbinoLeffe.

Headshot wrote: »

****ing diving

Well done ref

great spot

Shame he wasn't so good when Icardi should have had a pen in the first half.

Alisson is a very good goalie

How do Inter not score there!? :eek:

FCIM wrote: »

1-0 down to Roma and Eder comes on... Yep ok.

It's embarrassing the lack of forward options, for so long.

Roma got what they deserved.

Such negative tactics

I sound like a broken record but how is Di Francesco still Roma manager...

I don't think anything pulls at your emotions as much as football. Everything for me was black until Vecino's equaliser. Now, with Rafinha coming in, I'm not happy but there's a glimmer of optimism. The Zhangs need to do one of two things though. Either back Spalletti and to hell with the FFP, as PSG have done, and to hell with Beijing, or start looking for what they've been after since they came in; a big Middle Eastern buyout and a huge profit. Chinese owners are showing they only want to do things on the cheap, and I swear if they don't sign up Cancelo in the summer I'll turn against them even more than I am now. I must be the only person in the world though who sees Icardi as an average, at best, centre forward. If the team isn't going well he offers absolutely nothing. That was OK in the days of Ian Rush where a forward was judged solely on his goals but nowadays forwards need to offer more. I can't believe there's even a question over Benzema plus cash if Real are serious about it.

dor83 wrote: »

Calling Icardi average at best is crazy, you don't score that many goals in what has been an average Inter side without being a very good player. His shots per goal and shot accuracy are both excellent but he simply has no support, Candreva is a good crosser but that's about it and Perisic is an average player imo, I thought he should have been sold in the summer and still can't understand why Man Utd wanted him. In a better team with more support Icardi would be even better than he has been and if it wasn't for his goals we'd be much further down the table.

Everything but everything in terms of attacking play is channeled through him. Why shouldn't he score as much as he does if every attacking ball is put in in search of him? His play is limited to the area and is a huge part of what makes Inter so predictable. I'd love to see that heat map thing on his movement during a match. He barely moves out of that centre of the area position. Of course he's going to score a lot as against the amount of shots he gets in that position, he plays 95% of every match in a prime position to score. He rarely goes searching for the ball, he rarely plays another player into position. If you ask me, he's a large part of why Inter are so average. I'd bet anyone that if he moves to Real Madrid we won't be talking of him in any greater terms than people talk of Benzema in five years time. I see in him an Ian Rush of the present era, the difference is Ian Rush played in different times. His rating as a superb player is a precise example of how statistics are a horrendous addition to football; they're better suited to American sport where a player is expected to move once every year and a half, not to football where there are far more intricacies to the game than scoring goals. Days have moved on since the Linekers of this world were considered top notch; look at Messi, tons of goals but also tons of assists and a lot of a lot of other things too. I'm not saying Icardi has to be even close to Messi, who is an alien, to be considered good, just that simply getting into good positions, making a team dependant on you, and scoring a lot isn't enough anymore.