Rotation is a science, it's like a game, anyone can make their own judgment about the situation and the outcome based on the information they have before the official kick starts. This is especially true for professional coaches, where one of their most important tasks is to make sound judgments about themselves and their opponents.
Against Atletico Madrid's pre-Champions League league, facing Salernitana, who are at the bottom and have just changed their manager, almost everyone thinks that there should be a big rotation, and it turns out that Inzaghi Jr.'s arrangement of almost all the main players is a bit overkill, Inter played a game that does not belong to the category of Serie A, Salernitana only had one shot on goal in the whole game. However, football reviews are often "afterthoughts", fans will make mistakes, ** will make mistakes, coaches will also make mistakes, no one can always judge accurately. Perhaps against Salernitana without Lautaro and Marcus Thuram, against Atletico Madrid, the former would have been able to open and the latter would have avoided injury, which, of course, is also an afterthought.
However, the home win over Atletico Madrid gave Inzaghi Jr.'s Inter a clearer idea of their own quality and added a bit of confidence, so they played away to Lecce, where Inzaghi Jr. made one of the biggest changes in the league this season, with six or eight of his main players rested. The results show that these substitutes, who usually don't get many chances, are still too strong for a team like Lecce. And this is not the control bureau that Inter is used to, but the popular saying now: stabbing each other.
With many of the main players absent and Inter Milan still insisting on a position-forward style of play, this led to a lot of mistakes in the team, and the whole first half was full of drama such as losing the ball and then regaining it, but it was the goal conversion rate that won the game. Lecce's recent form has been so low that the situation at the start of the game gave Lecce the illusion that the tempo was similar to that against the likes of Frosinone, and they might even be expecting a comeback like Fiorentina. But it was clear that Inter's ability to take chances was too strong, and Lautaro scored two goals with just two shots on goal, and the game was actually over since he scored the first goal.
It was also a watershed moment for Lecce, and we know that in the late Juventus Championship era, many teams in the middle and lower reaches faced them without a fight, and some could even rotate them, which means that they can't play anyway, and simply save their energy for more needed games. Has Inter now reached the level of Juventus back then? Not yet, but the next time a team like Lecce plays Inter again, they may have to think a little more: Should I fight back? Continuing to attack is not only a dead end, but also a 1, 2, 3, 4 to continue to concede goals. Before the 90th minute of regular time, the referee blew the final whistle, which is extremely rare in the post-epidemic era, both sides are full of 5 people, even if the time of 5 up and 5 down has to be symbolically made up for at least 3 minutes, the referee means: almost stop. Lecce coach Da Versa even said after the game: "The quality of Inter is devastating for us, both in Italy and in Europe they have shown it. "More and more teams are finding that it is difficult to score points on Inter Milan, whether it is playing control, counter-attacking or "stabbing each other", of course, there is a gap in technology, but this sense of pressure is slowly eroding to the psychological level.
Inzaghi Jr. is also increasing his confidence through games against Atletico Madrid and Lecce, and in the football world, especially in Italian football, you are usually judged not by how much possession you have, whether you play well or not, they will call you "champion coach" or "a good coach". Inzaghi Jr. is also the "champion coach", but only endorsed by the Coppa Italia and the Italian Super Cup, and no one is looking forward to the arrival of May more than Inzaghi Jr., when people may also take off the word "small" before his title.
In some of the past games, Inzaghi Jr. has always given people a sense of unatmosphere and caution, although he reached the Champions League final, but after all, he still lacked the blessing of the league title. In Serie A, Inter Milan undoubtedly had the thickest bench, and they finally showed the quality of their substitutes in today's game. After getting rid of Juventus by 9 points, the Inter fans, who have always liked to accumulate character, finally sang the song "The leader is far away", and the management in the stands also chose to leave the field early, and everything was under control.
Is there room for Inter to improve? Of course, Inzaghi will need to develop a mature rotation system and build a deterrent against mid-table teams in order to start his own era of domination. The same can be said of Lautaro, who scored twice and scored 22 goals in 23 games, leaving the top scorer in little suspense. After scoring his first goal, he became only the third foreign player after Ners and Icardi to score 100 league goals for Inter. As long as Lautaro remains with the Nerazzurri, it is only natural that he will break one record after another. Can Lautaro continue to improve? Perhaps he needs to finish two goals in a Champions League game like Atletico Madrid, rather than just showing dominance in Serie A.