He did well yesterday, don't recall any needless giveaways in possession by him. That is what we need. Intelligent passing is something we haven't seen in this club in a few years.
This is what I like about him, Hustini...True enough, Marchisio is definitely better defensively, and can shoot, but in terms of making himself available for the ball, keeping the ball, and using it intelligently, he is very pale in comparison to Alberto. And as you say, we have been lacking those exact skills, for a long time now. It means that we can attack dangerously all across the midfield, not just with krasic, and pepe's insane work rate, but also, through the middle. Dogs of war are useful, and needed, but one is enough if we have someone next to him who can actually control the flow of the game and find those perfect passes our forwards, all forwards in fact, feed off. and spit back goals in return.
we have a strange central midfield quartet, as none of them have the same strengths. Which gives us options, but also creates problems when we finally DO decide upon our best central pairing, and one of them gets injured or suspended, as whoever comes into their position, is not naturally capable of performing the same job.
As for Del Neri's words about Melo/Marchisio proving our number one duo...after so few games, when Alberto has hardly played, its an accurate, but also liable to change statement. No chance we would have aquilani in the squad, with a fairly large buy out clause, unless we were going to give him a chance to stake a claim for a starting position.
Momo is a tougher, more mobile tackler than Melo, but he is brainless and incompetent once he has the ball at his feet. Aquliani is a very different kind of player to marchisio.