Lippi , hands down, no comparism at all in my book. As someone rightly mentioned Capello depends way too much on individual brilliance than tactical know how and thats the only way to me you can measure who is a better manager. I do not necessarily agree with the amount of titles you have won, makes you the best in the world cos you might have by far the best of everything. Its actually managers who have little or crap to work with and make the best use of what they have that i find really impressive. Its like saying the Brazilina manager is the most brilliant when he he has at his disposal as any given time, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, kaka, Emerson, Adriano, cafu, Cicinho, Carlos, Juninho , Edmillson and the rest.
Lippi had to make do with a defence of Montero, Iuliano, Leggrotaglie, Ferrara and because of that he had to convert Zambrotta to a left back and look at the result . Buffon was even conceding goals left right and centre. Because of Davids dispute with the club, Lippi had to make do without him.
Lippi made superstars out of Zambrotta, Vieri and made Nedved win European player of the year by palying him in the middle. Brought Camonaresi from relative obscurity and turned him into an Italian international even if he is Argentine. Amoruso was turned into a star and Padovano became an international albeit briefly under Lippi. We got masterclass performances from Deschamps, Jugovic, davids, Sousa. Yes he made some hopeless buys , but his teams like the one that demolished Ajax home and away, who can forget the demolition of Monaco and Dinamo Kiev in Kiev. Real Madrid in Turin. We had not won away in Cl under Ancelotti and it was becoming embarassing and under Lippi we went to Kiev and beat em 2-0 .Yes people are gonna bring up losing to Depor at home but remember Dp, out talisman went off injured after 5 minutes, and thats gonna demoralise the whole team no matter who you are, and even irueta said so, Miccolli was not really match fit and i do not think that Trez played but i might be wrong as he missed whole chunks of that season.
Under Capello with arguably better players, and already established stars i might add, we keep on limping from 1 result to another with no real highlight to speak off. The only game i can honestly say that we won and played very well under Capello was the 1-0 in Milan against Ac. Yes the results were impressive against Roma in Rome but with better finishing by Roma , it might have been different we just caught them with a sucker punch, we didnt really dominate them. Same with Inter , great result , better performance but it was not dominating