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Look, I was against sacking Ciro, simply because Ciro wasn't the main problem. As you pointed out in your post before, our defence is abysmal and no coach can make it work, with what I wholeheartedly agree. And just for the same reason I refused to bash Ciro, I refuse to praise Zac. We are not...

Of course he is. But any coach would. It's not Zac that has given the team a boost, it's a new manager, whoever it would have been, that's the difference Once again, I cannot but agree. But there's a difference between winning to due luck and losing due to bad luck. It's different if we are...

He keeps on winning despite what he does. We played a mediocre game, which we could have lost, we looked even worse after the subs, yet thanks to Del Piero we scored a goal. If Bologna hadn't been so wasteful, those subs would have cost us the game.

To clarify things, I'm not claiming it's Zac's fault. Grygera, Grosso and Zebina are terrible, Legro is having an off season once again, Cannavaro is super slow, Caceres and De Ceglie lack the experience to defend properly (and maybe even the talent, but I'll give them the benefit of a doubt)...

It goes down to this. Either Zac made us more organized and we are better on the ball and conceding less chances (because that is what organized means, I believe). Or we are conceding the same amount of chances, but we look better on the ball, which means, that the players' confidence is (for...

I think it's an offensive LB, defensive RB combination. De Ceglie runs up and down the left flank, while Grygera is basically a right sided CB with the occasional run forward, with Sali helping to attack on the right.

There are so many thing that could have made us look more "organized", I mentioned them earlier: picking up points, injured players coming back, the boost after changing a coach (hell, Lazio beat Inter in the Supercoppa thanks to having a new coach, and look where they are now). The worrying...

Del Piero barely played under Ciro, and just before Ciro was sacked, he was only returning from his injury, and was clearly rusty. All I'm saying is that since Ciro left, plenty of things had changed apart from the new manager, that did influence our recent performances, and no one can tell...

But that could so easily be down to other factors, such as: - Players returning from injuries, which means fielding a better lineup, more squad rotation, which in turn means fresher legs - Us winning a couple of games, which boosted the morale - Del Piero being healthy - And of course, the...

Totally spot on. People really should look behind the result and see, that the only difference between Ciro and Zac is a healthy Del Piero.

I'm not giving him credit, because all three wins were wins in result only, we could have easily lost all those three games (and we could have lost the two drawn games, as well). There is not anything to give him credit for, yet.

We took two more technically gifted players and put on two less technically gifted ones. Hadn't we had Del Piero out there, no way we would have scored.

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It wasn't gutsy, it was stupid. We only won thanks to Del Piero's magic. We shouldn't get fooled by the result. We could have easily lost the game.

99 times out of 100, those subs would have cost us the game. Everyone on these forums knows they weren't ballsy, just plain stupid. We won the game DESPITE Zac's subs, not thanks to them.

I hope they do. We have a lot of issues to address. If we win, they will get overlooked once again.

We rely solely on Del Piero. One can't stress enough how lucky we are to have him. And at the same time, he is our worst curse, because thanks to his magic, we have been overperforming for the third season now, and the board are thus overlooking our issues.

This is Ranieri all over again. Stupid lineup, stupid tactics, stupid subs, only to have his ass saved by Del Piero.

Zac doing all he can to make us miss Ciro...

Yes, but they were attacking from deep, while Messi was opening spaces with his movement. Which is something Del Piero is doing so well anyway, as he is always marked tightly.