Lazio, Inzaghi and the future: we need clarity

ROME – The purchases late, the COVID-19 inside the locker room, the injuries and the impact of Champions, the stress of nearby parties and never like this year, bothered by the pandemic. It all happened and let’s face it: the Lazio it would take a month of preparation and starting from scratch to be evaluated.

Twenty official matches, the first 3 with the open market, another 17 from October 17 to December 23 including the November break for the national teams. Eighth place in Serie A, five defeats and different lost ground in the league, qualification for the round of 16 of Champions close the group undefeated, a goal achieved twenty years later Inzaghi who had already had the merit of returning Lazio to the European elite where Lotito had arrived only once, in 2007, thanks to the couple Rossi-Sabatini. Between Christmas and New Year, the president, ds Tare and the coach will meet to discuss the first months of the season. It is a fundamental appointment to look forward and lay the foundations for the future, not only linked to the renewal of Inzaghi, still in the balance.

Lulic and the defense

Before talking about the technician contract, let’s try to understand what needs to be done to improve the Lazio, knowing full well that the company is unlikely (due to lack of financial resources) to plan radical interventions. The first node refers Lulic, stopped for almost a year. However, we can no longer wait for his return, knowing that at the end of the season he will almost certainly return to Switzerland. Rates (alone) is not enough to replace it. If Lazio go ahead with 3-5-2, a left-handed exterior and good technical qualities, who knows how to cross and raise the level of the headlines. The other reasoning concerns defense, a sore point. A right midfoot would allow Inzaghi easier rotations with Luiz Philip me Patric. Now he is forced to alternate three left-handers (Hats, Radu, Acerbi) with usable Dutch only in the middle – it’s a clear boundary.

The knot of fantasy

There is a tactical aspect that is difficult to improve. Or rather, it would have been overcome if in summer David Silva he had said yes to ds Tare. Lazio’s offensive quality, creativity and ideas are expressed almost entirely by Milinkovic what if Luis Alberto. Finding two alternatives of the same level is almost impossible, although in San Siro in the last quarter of an hour (when the Serbian came out) the physique and the experience of I speak. In the past, Lazio attacked with Candreva, Mauri, Felipe Anderson me Keita. Inevitably, it is the quality and the shots of the players that make the difference. In 3-5-2 it happens a lot through the central streets, determine the Wizard and the Sergeant. It is a bit of the same defect as Inter de Conte, solid and muscular, sometimes too flat, without the same quality as Lazio in the midfield. Simone should make an effort to insert and find a tactical location for Andreas pereira. The former Manchester United is the only player taken in the last market session who can guarantee a certain level. Has shots, must be framed. In the Premier and La Liga he played mainly as a winger, but can move as a midfielder. The season flies by quickly: it is necessary to accelerate the introduction of new forces, otherwise fatigue prevails, players tighten, injuries multiply. The bank is not long, so you run the risk of shortening it. It is the case of Escalante, is proving to be able to stay, maybe I could already play with him Verona me Leiva, in the seventh game in a row, he did not stretch. It is useless to force recoveries and always insist on the same men. Cases of belt me Acerbi they prove it.

I dubbi su Caicedo

Muriqi, in which Noisy has invested almost 20 million, it is disappointing. There Lazio she is almost forced to let him play, she has to insert him and give him chances. The arrival of the Kosovar has inevitably taken away space and opportunities for Caicedo, which instead deserves to play and seems to be of a higher level for now. Clarity is also needed in this case. If you participate in the Champions and in the squad four forwards are needed, it is good that Inzaghi chooses privileging merits and needs. Panther is receiving offers. In spite of Noisy Deny, it is no secret that he complained. There Lazio He has no intention of selling it and he does it well: it would be a sensational own goal. Your goals and contributions will be needed in January, February, and March.

RENEWAL. There can be no future without a present. And Lazio must give the first signal by convincing Simone to extend the contract that expires in June. Another effort is needed and an economic relaunch, the initial proposal was not considered satisfactory by the technician, who wonders after five years at a very high level if it is correct or not to continue in Formello. He would like to see more conviction from Lotito. Lazio, because of the results obtained and what Inzaghi represents, should not allow themselves to lose him. It would mean going back, knowing that it would be difficult to replace it and lead to Form it a coach of Allegri’s level, just to mention a great club coach still away from home: Leghorn’s salary is out of reach.

Inzaghi’s enthusiasm

Today the best possible solution is still linked to the name of the former Scudetto forward. And we basically believe that the best possible solution for Inzaghi it is still Lazio. The San Siro party proves it. The work is not finished. There are the long contracts of Immobile, Acerbi, Milinkovic and Luis Alberto to guarantee a certain kind of perspective. You can renew the cycle, even giving up a big one, knowing where to intervene. Better than anyone can do Simone, very close to the square and still very young. Sooner or later he will have to face another club, but he has at least ten or fifteen years of career left. He can still carry on with Lazio, perhaps planning the assault at the top with the right moves. The football of the COVID-19 And the Juve crisis proves it: there is a balance of which the biancoceleste team is also part. And then it would be a shame to close and greet a twenty-year history in a season saddened by closed-door stadiums. Wishing a Merry Christmas to all fans of the Lazio, we like to imagine in September-October 2021 waving biancocelesti flags with Inzaghi, Immobile and all the others in the embrace of the sixty thousand of the Olimpico, back in the race for the Champions and for the first places. The enthusiasm of the people would make all doubts suddenly disappear.