Former Torino defender Massimo Brambati feels that Inter coach Simone Inzaghi is still affected by the team’s failure to win the Serie A title last season.
Speaking to Italian broadcaster TMW Radio, via FCInterNews, the former defender argued between that and the number of matches that the team have lost this season, there is a lot of baggage for the 47-year-old coach as he and the Nerazzurri head into the Champions League semifinals.
Whilst there have certainly been some positives to Inzaghi’s time in charge of Inter, the feeling is that the performances in Serie A have not lived up to expectations.
Whilst there have certainly been some heroics in the Champions League and the Coppa Italia over the past few seasons, few can ignore the fact that the team missed out on the Scudetto in the manner that they did last season, from what appeared to be a real position of strength.
Then, this time around it has been even worse.
Whilst the Nerazzurri came into the season widely considered to be among the favourites for the Serie A title, they have utterly failed to make good on that, and now in fact find themselves facing a real battle to even finish in the top four of the table after a woeful recent sequence of results.
For Brambati, however, this only caps off what has not been broadly a great tenure for Inzaghi in the league.
“He can reach the Champions League final, but then if he doesn’t win it, I don’t know,” the former defender said.
“He may have done well there, but if I’m looking at his work as a whole, he carries the weight of blowing the Scudetto last season, and of the eleven losses in the league this time around,” he continued.
“If at least turn half of those had turned into wins, they could be right there with Napoli,” he added.
