Andrea Pirlo (99 Viewers)

[Akshen]

He fucked up our balance. If one wing back is offensive, then the other one has to be defensive, not Cuads and especially not Cuads on the left.
Its simple as this, this not 352 of Conte, this system requires one of our wing backs to convert into full back while defending, Sandro and Frabotta can do it on the left. MdS, Danilo and maybe Cuads can do it on the right, its simple as that.
I understand that this is not only his decision, as he has his analyst etc. who probably had a plan to dominate Roma, but it didnt work out at all. We were lucky Dzeko cant finish.
As mentioned above, we had only one friendly so mistakes can happen, but still, not seeing Rabiot red card was amateur for me, everyone could say he is on the verge of getting one, yet we wait with his change.

Also what has happened with our defense on the second goal? Seriously only Cuads at the back?

 

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[Mike-e-y]

Some odd choices from Pirlo yesterday.
Morata was horrible, he looked on a completely different wavelength to the rest of the team as it’s clear 4 training sessions isn’t suffice to understand the system and what’s expected of him. Very strange to throw him in from the start.

Cuadrado at LWB was just a car crash, particularly when your third CB is Danilo, in our back 4 we had 1 player out of position and one in an unfamiliar hybrid role. Kulu at RM was ok but he needs to be in the attacking third to use his skill set and that was missing yesterday as he was too deep and wide.

Not subbing out Rabiot... that was madness, he went into a couple of challenges before his second yellow that were borderline so it was easy to see that red card coming. Not sure how Pirlo missed that or why he risked it - Rabiot wasn’t playing that well anyway.

Thank god for GOAT because without him we did absolutely nothing all game

 

[Kopanja]

I don't know. I really really liked what I saw yesterday, Roma is a well-coached team, Fonseca is no fraud.

 

[Nzoric]

I don't know. I really really liked what I saw yesterday, Roma is a well-coached team, Fonseca is no fraud.

I agree, Roma looked good.

Doesnt change the fact that we looked really poor and unaligned. Had it not been for Dzekos off-day it wouldve been a deserved defeat. Thats not to say that there were no positives, but our fundamentals were off yesterday.

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[Kopanja]

I agree, Roma looked good.

Doesnt change the fact that we looked really poor and unaligned. Had it not been for Dzekos off-day it wouldve been a deserved defeat. Thats not to say that there were no positives, but our fundamentals were off yesterday.

You see, I don't agree with that. I thought that we looked really good, but stupid mistakes cost us. But team movement, ball movement, players not afraid to play – it's amazing how much Pirlo has done already.

 

[Salvo]

I honestly think the man has balls of steel

He didn't actually care that we were playing Roma, he wanted to test things out before the mercato closes IMO

As long as he doesn't do it again

 

[Nzoric]

You see, I don't agree with that. I thought that we looked really good, but stupid mistakes cost us. But team movement, ball movement, players not afraid to play – it's amazing how much Pirlo has done already.

You have a case of the love goggles.

Roma dominated the midfield and our defence was left to fend for itself time and time again. Romas shitty finishing helped us save face imo.

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[U Picciriddu]

You see, I don't agree with that. I thought that we looked really good, but stupid mistakes cost us. But team movement, ball movement, players not afraid to play – it's amazing how much Pirlo has done already.

I disagree. Based on what Pirlo said and what we’ve seen vs Sampdoria Pirlo highly rates 3 things: width, depth, off the ball movement. We basically lacked width and depth because Kulusevski and Cuadrado (both out of position) didn’t provided that, and we were very static as other players didn’t moved a lot. Especially Morata, but also Ramsey imo. It left our CM’s in a difficult position and that’s why we blame them for playing very bad. Also the defense had problems being good organized.

I forgive Pirlo as he’s a young manager and obviously wants to try things, but the blame is on him.

Positive things are that we looked superior to Roma on fitness levels. Even though we made 2 more subs, we were stronger and better at the last part of the match, playing with 10 men. Mentally we also showed power after conceding 2 stupid goals.

 

[DAiDEViL]

You have a case of the love goggles.

Roma dominated the midfield and our defence was left to fend for itself time and time again. Romas shitty finishing helped us save face imo.

Yep, dreadful to watch.

 

[Kopanja]

You have a case of the love goggles.

Roma dominated the midfield and our defence was left to fend for itself time and time again. Romas shitty finishing helped us save face imo.

Maybe. I like what I saw, mistakes are bound to happen with a new coach in the second round without preseason against a good, schooled team. I was never worried we are going to lose though.

 

[Xperd]

Hopefully that's the last game we see this inverted wingback experiment. Was a huge flop show and partly a reason why we couldn't win yesterday. We lacked any sort of width. If I'm correct, we had very few crosses into the box. And the times we did cross, we created scoring opportunities.

Cuadrado played like a headless chicken on the left, cutting in and doing nothing useful while Kulusevski on the right was absolutely wasted apart from being tightly marked from Spinazzola ofcourse. It's clear that he should be playing closer to the forwards than outwide as a wingback.

 

[JCK]

I honestly think the man has balls of steel

He didn't actually care that we were playing Roma, he wanted to test things out before the mercato closes IMO

As long as he doesn't do it again

I am sure he will do it again and will continue to test in order to find not more than one solution.

 

[Gigiventus]

Hopefully that's the last game we see this inverted wingback experiment. Was a huge flop show and partly a reason why we couldn't win yesterday. We lacked any sort of width. If I'm correct, we had very few crosses into the box. And the times we did cross, we created scoring opportunities.

Cuadrado played like a headless chicken on the left, cutting in and doing nothing useful while Kulusevski on the right was absolutely wasted apart from being tightly marked from Spinazzola ofcourse. It's clear that he should be playing closer to the forwards than outwide as a wingback.

Only inverted wingback that works somehow is Spinazzola. Cuadrado and Kulusevski were deleted from the game because of these choices.

 

[juve123]

Pirlo will need to settle down on a fixed starting lineup and stop experimenting especially in tough away games

 

[rainhard]

Get that Hoffenheim manager that beat Muenchen 4-1

 

[juve123]

Get that Hoffenheim manager that beat Muenchen 4-1

Let us give pirlo some time to implement his thesis on the football field

 

[Badass J Elkann]

Let us give pirlo some time to implement his thesis on the football field

fonseca obviously sussed it out

 

[juve123]

fonseca obviously sussed it out

There has been no preseason friendly matches and even the transfer window is going on so have to give him time

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Anyone have a heatmap from the game? Some are saying Kulu played wingback but I didn't really see that

 

[j0ker]

Anyone have a heatmap from the game? Some are saying Kulu played wingback but I didn't really see that

http://www.legaseriea.it/en/serie-a/match-report/2020-21/UNICO/UNI/2/ROMJUV