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Originally Posted by Sune76
Inter had a mad lead, but struggled heavily when zlatan was out and it had to go down at the last match to win it. Oh and he has scored big goals in the past, the italy-sweden goals or sweden-bulgaria goal comes to mind.
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He's has his moments... but he has to be the most baffling striker I've ever seen. He goes from completely dominant to totally useless game to game. I remember from his Juventus days, he'd look like Cristiano Ronaldo does one game, and then the next game, he couldn't dribble past the ref. Its not for a lack of chances, Capello leaned pretty hard on Ibrahimovic and he got more slack than he deserved.
The balance of probabilities said that those poor games were against good teams. Does that mean he never had a good game against a good team? Absolutely not. It means he is, on average, not a big game player.
There were other aspects in play at Inter's downward spiral to a close race. Many teams get the January lulls, as they did... but it was the CL and its effects that really hurt them... and the circus-like atmosphere created by Mancini's "I quit -- oh wait, no I don't," and some of the allegations circling the Italian papers.