5 players who made the best of their limited abilities on the pitch

Filippo Inzaghi

AC Milan have been blessed with some of the greatest strikers of all time. This list includes the likes of Marco van Basten, Andriy Shevchenko, Hernan Crespo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic among others.

Even though the Milan fans were spoilt with such wonderful strikers on display, they adored another who was not on the same level as the ones mentioned above. His name was Filippo Inzaghi and the Milan fans fondly called him ‘Pippo’.

Late Dutch ace Johan Cruyff described Inzaghi in the following manner – “Look, actually he can’t play football at all. He’s just always in the right position”. It is said that when he was called up to the national team for the first time, the other players were surprised by his lack of technical ability and yet he somehow managed to score a lot of goals.

In fact, he is the fourth highest goal scorer in European club competitions with 70 goals and only behind Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Raul. Two of his goals were memorable ones in the 2007 Champions League final and it helped Milan lift their seventh trophy.

It was Inzaghi’s ability to play on the shoulder of the defenders and the timing of his runs that helped him most. In addition to this, he heavily relied on capitalizing on the mistake of the defenders rather than creating a goal on his own. Interestingly, he is Milan’s and Italy’s sixth highest goal scorer of all time.