i just had a thought pop out in my mind about aquilanis decrease in performance.
could someone check if it could also be reasoned by a change of teammates he is playing with ?
seeing aquilanis play is more the "distribute the ball"/"play the ball direct"-type and not the "take the ball, dribble and then pass"-type, it could well be, that the players around aquilani do not fit him that well ? being a player that does like the direct one touch passes myself makes me think, that aquilani might simply lack the teammates that actually do make intelligent runnings, for him to pass throught balls too...
marchisio is often invisible on the left, krasic doubles up lateley so where should the movement come from for aquaman to play an intelligent attack-minded pass to ? we all agree that with toni and matri in that game a few weeks ago we looked pretty decent, because matri does move well and toni did hold up the ball well, but other than that we do miss something we had in the beginning of the season. insult me if you want, but i think one factor is that we do not play pepe anymore. he was running all the time and even if he did not get the ball, some opponents player had to cover his run and so make space. with marchisio being invisible on the wing and krasic being doubled up upon (and the lack of movement of our fullbacks) you can clearly see that aquilani has little chance to play exciting balls if he does not want to dribble past a player first before passing ...
pepe did play nearly every game until the second leg against sampdoria and after that he only featured in the win over inter ... it that coincidence ?