Italian journalist Fabio Caressa feels that the double substitution that Inter coach Simone Inzaghi made of players on yellow cards in the first half of Sunday’s Serie A loss to Udinese is not something that should have ever been done.
Speaking on his YouTube channel, as reported by FCInter1908, Caressa gave his assessment of some of the issues that led the Nerazzurri to lose Sunday’s match, and singled out the decision to take off Alessandro Bastoni and Henrikh Mkhitaryan as unacceptable.
Inzaghi may have felt that taking off Bastoni and Mkhitaryan who were on bookings was necessary to give the team a shot in the arm and avoid the risk of going down to ten men when the team were really starting to look like they were losing control of the match to a rampant Udinese team.
The team did finish the match with eleven men on the pitch, but this was the only sense in which Inzaghi’s decision could be seen as having been successful, as in every other respect it looked an incongruent and pointless one.
“Brozovic is off, the defense is off,” Caressa said. “But against Udinese I would take the liberty of saying that it was Inzaghi who was in the wrong above all.”
“You cannot make two changes on half an hour, you risk seriously throwing off the players mentally, it’s unacceptable,” he continued. “I hope that the choice was dictated by tactical reasons, because I don’t accept the yellow card explanation.”
“Red cards aren’t something that happen very often, especially with an experienced team like Inter,” he noted.
