Italian journalist Michele Criscitiello feels that Inter coach Simone Inzaghi has been blamed for every aspect of the team’s bad form, including things that he is hardly responsible for.

Writing in his column for Italian news outlet TuttoMercatoWeb, Criscitiello defended the Nerazzurri coach from some of the critiques and accusations that have come his way,

Inter look to be back on their feet after wins against the likes of Barcelona and Sassuolo, but it can hardly be denied that their start to the season was a bad one.

Naturally the coach tends to be the first to be blamed for situations of this nature, and this has certainly been the case with Inzaghi.

However, for his part Criscitiello isn’t sure how fair some of the criticisms that the 46-year-old has received early on in the campaign have been.

“They put Simone in the line of fire like meat for slaughter, and there was some journalistic cowardice from who knows who to leak the day before the Barcelona match that he hadn’t wanted to sign Dybala,” he writes.

“It was a bad move, executed poorly,” he continues.

“Rather than blaming the coach, at times it is necessary to look higher up in the chain.”

Criscitiello argues that “If controls so much that he has the power to say no to Dybala, it means that the club is weak and absent in decisions.”

“Since that’s not the case, we all know how it went with Dybala and Bremer,” he continues.

“Inter fell asleep on the job, and they have no financial strength,” Criscitiello goes on. “That’s it.”

He notes that “Inzaghi may be to blame for not having immediately benched Handanovic, but the ones who created this problem for him in the first place are the club.”

“Because part of a coach’s job is managing the dynamics in the squad, and if the club signs Onana but also extends with Handanovic, it shows that they want to have their cake and eat it too.”

“Now the coach thinks only about the pitch, think about the locker room later. Rightly”

“If two out of three defenders are currently playing in the last year of their contracts, it’s not the fault of the coach, and they let Perisic leave and rely on whatever remains of Gosens, perhaps the coach bears some responsibility, but is the lesser culprit.”

“Inzaghi responded with facts,” Criscitiello writes.

“He won against Barcelona, ​​without Brozovic and Lukaku, with Lautaro at 30%, and confirmed it in Reggio-Emilia.”