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The only acceptable reason would be is if Mancini was injured, which I thought he was following that clash on the corner. Media and papers haven’t made any claims that he was though.

Brought on so much panic when he just came on the pitch when there hadn’t been any all game. Goal comes from him being passive and dropping deep too. Mortified that Italy won’t be at the WC again. Time should come now for the beast to retire and for us to finally have 3 good healthy centre backs...

Which is precisely what is likely happen.

Can’t see Simeone taking him. Griezmann is more effective for his style of football. Just watch the work Griezmann did against Man United at RM off the ball in the second half and then try picture Dybala doing anything out of possession. Hoping this all ends respectfully this year. Milan won’t...

Agreed. You play a system to get the best out of a star player if he shows up and makes the difference in the majority of games. Paulo often wilted in big European games and more recently hasn’t been able to show up at all due to injury. I’m indifferent about today and I think we all saw it...

A Danilo Cuadrado central midfielder partnership. Never would’ve believed I’d see such a thing. Yeah Miretti, you’re never going to get more than added time to play until you get shipped off on loan or part exchanged. A coppa Italia first round game if you’re lucky.

You are still living in a bygone era. We shouldn’t be accepting Rugani and MDS as 3rd or 4th choice options. A number of Mid table Serie A sides have better options at 3rd or 4th choice, let alone what current elite teams like Liverpool or Man City have. Sure there’s bigger problems to fix in...

He got to play with both Messi and Ronaldo through good stretches of his career, yet didn’t learn the most important thing. How to condition yourself and stay fit. Messi has come back from a pulled hamstring in 2 weeks. Dybala takes a month to come back from muscle fatigue or a thigh injury...

Whilst he has done ok this season and was decent in the game, he still made an inexplicable error. He’s already proven that he’s not Juventus level. Last season no one would take him on a free loan other than Cagliari. And yet he is still here as a 3rd centre back. You can’t say he’s a 4th as...

I just rewatched the game today (what a glutton) and drawn the conclusion that the initial tactics to start the game worked in our favour. Essentially we mirrored each other but took advantage of the space out wide that they gave us because they congested the middle in a narrow 5-3-2. We came...

He wasn’t even ready in the tunnel pre-game and had to head back into the changing room to do something (I imagine urinating) which then meant the refs and every player had to wait for him. Never really struck me as a leader, more of a chaotic, disorganised, happy soul. His post-match comments...

In my opinion, penned back is when you are forced backwards due to the opponent and can’t play the ball out. We didn’t do that, they comfortably held the ball in their own third for decent stretches and only started hacking the ball away a few times when they were winning. It was a simple tactic...

I think we looked better, because Villareal chose to sit deep with no intention to get forward and give away a counter attack as that was likely to be our main method of scoring. They weren’t forced or penned back in any way. They were happy to concede territory making us look like the...

Personally I didn’t see the approach as proactive. It was somewhere in between kind of like our pressing where there was a half press, with our two CFs on their CB and Locatelli on Parejo. We weren’t confident enough to press higher and likely believed Villareal could play out of a press and...

Where to even start with this shitshow, no point bothering. Deja vu of previous years. Individual Clumsy error under no pressure for a penalty. Slow, pedestrian, non-penetrating football. What a wonderful array of mentally fragile children we have at our club that preaches DNA of grinta and...

Chill, Euromax got dis.

Moms spaghetti.

Did watch the last two Villarreal games. They were piss poor against Osasuna and not much better today. Rested a number of players today that didn’t play in the first leg. Moreno also did his ACL in the Osasuna game. That said, I’m sure other teams must think the same thing if they watch us play.

The moment Cuadrado was one on one with a defender in the box when we were 2-0 up around the 70th minute and instead of attacking him, he stopped and turned back sums up the team and allowed the whole Samp team back behind the ball. The desire to play a safe pass backwards or sidewards always...

Rabbit, so incorrectly named. You can’t miss him. He’s either giving the ball away, making a silly run so that he can’t receive the ball, committing dumb fouls and making surprised faces. Just an absolute gift of a player. Never mind, tre punti, no in game injuries and a decent first half...