[Champions League] Club Brugge vs Juventus [21st January, 2025 21:00 CET] (4 Viewers)

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mjromeo81

Senior Member
Aug 29, 2022
597
Completely unacceptable performance.

People are spending their hard earned money to attend games and this is the dogshit which is repeatedly being served up?

Slow, predictable, inconsistent. Don't tell me this group of players aren't good enough to beat Club Brugge. The issue is mentality and Motta has failed to instill a winning attitude.
 

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Powis

Senior Member
Dec 9, 2009
8,434
If they had arrived to this game with the same mentality they showed vs Milan on saturday, we would have won comfortably tonight. They just chose not to play to win, which is disappointing. These are games that should build us confidence.
 

GordoDeCentral

Diez
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Apr 14, 2005
70,528
I’ll wait til the end of the season to give my definitive judgment on that - but so far the signs are indicating this.
I hated allegri last season, but the players weren't tripping on the ball or clahing into each other constantly. Both motta and allegri play pussy football, but with allegri we were a bit more organized.
 

Bianconero_Aus

Beppe Marotta Is My God
May 26, 2009
80,215
I hated allegri last season, but the players weren't tripping on the ball or clahing into each other constantly. Both motta and allegri play pussy football, but with allegri we were a bit more organized.
At least we could rely on goals from set pieces/dead balls more under Allegro. Also, there was a little bit more grinta than what I’m seeing now.

Both of these guys suck to be clear.
 

Amer

Senior Member
Feb 13, 2005
11,027
Can’t say it was unexpected, we simply are unable to string a couple of wins in a row, no matter the opponents, just a sad state of affairs where we can’t build any momentum.

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And the only one goalless too.
You just had to put more salt on our wounds there, didn't you?
 

Alex-444

Senior Member
Sep 5, 2005
28,886
“I have never seen a team win every game easily. You get to the Champions League and all your targets through performances like this, winning 1-0 with suffering.

“People forget quickly in football, but in my five years we had a lot of 1-0 results spent sitting in our own half for the final 20 minutes. The important thing is not to let anything go in those moments.”

https://www.blackwhitereadallover.c...ie-a-match-recap-morata-goal-allegri-comments

:madmax::allegri:
 

Buck Fuddy

Lara Chedraoui fanboy
May 22, 2009
10,833
Unlike most people (everyone?), I'm not really disappointed after this game.
Draws are what we live for. And last night, you had a game where a draw would suit both teams. No need to guess how it would turn out, and I'm fine with it. We were not going to make top 8 anyway.

Locatelli was great.
Koop, Weah, Gonzalez (& Conceicao) were poor.
 

s4tch

Senior Member
Mar 23, 2015
32,294
I hated allegri last season, but the players weren't tripping on the ball or clahing into each other constantly. Both motta and allegri play pussy football, but with allegri we were a bit more organized.
for months during this current season, i had a feeling that this team only needs one little spark and consistency to be very, very good. it's obvious that we're hard to beat, even with gatti and kalulu, neither of them at the level of bremer, let alone barza or chiellini, or savona, who played in serie c last season. we've been having multiple absences every single game, especially in attack: either chico or nico or both were injured, vlahovic scores less than expected and has no legit backup, mbamgula is like savona in terms of experience, even our 10 is a relative rookie so i thought we just needed some time and a good run of 4-5 games to get going

but it looks like it won't happen anytime soon. even though we made visible progress in multiple areas compared to last season: we're not afraid of having the ball (huge change!), we can pass the ball around very accurately, we can usually defend without our back in our own goal, and we can defend instead of just defending a lot and getting away with it

and it also turns out we're simply shit in the attacking 3rd and lack any kind of urgency to win. we massively underperform when it comes to winning the games we're expected to win, and not only based on useless fan expectations, but also measurable performance. despite being better in key stats against lesser opponents, we simply concede more than we should, and can't finish our chances. that's on experience and coaching (tactical and mental). with allegri, we were able to win matches despite being outplayed. with motta, we're almost never outplayed (only stuttgart comes to mind, bloody stuttgart lol), but we can't win despite being the better side. and we have games like yesterday when we don't even try to win, which was unacceptable with macs already. we looked like a team settled for draws against napoli, roma and brugge at least, and there might be other games i can't remember now

obviously we need to grow, this is a young team with a young coach and all that. but learning to win without knowing how to win could be a painfully long process. it might even never happen. even though motta gets it right in some elements of the game, the idea of how to win against low, organized blocks is completely lacking

i'd also bring a more experienced coach for this squad. and at least 2-3 older players. not washed out, not 35 who won everything and not hungry anymore, but more experienced. i wish kroos never retired or we could sign someone like salah (i don't give a shit about his wages), son if not fully finished, or even that prick kimmich. just add some experience because the learning curve for motta and such a young team is way too steep now
 

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