Well it was not down to a lack of chances, Ronaldo absolutely bottled it half a dozen times including taking away that wondergoal from Dybala. Also the defense was leaky as fuck, we were clearly lacking Chiellini there.
However, first place it is. Here we can see though that in Europe we need something else than our boring recipe in Serie A. Losses against both United and fukking Young Boys are the clear indication. We will take a severe ass beating from a half decent team if we can't learn to play like a real title contender should in these crunch games.
Costa tried as one of the few. Not easy to do anything against two guys marking him, as they know we do sidepasses till it reaches him and his job then is to make a cross.
Bentancur also with an okay performance. Emre Can did really well when coming on. Balls to take some responsibility. I would keep Pjanic and Mandzukic out next game, and Berna. He was so useless.
Anyway in the context we're already through and we expected at best a crappy win, and that would be on a grass pitch. This one had red flags all over it. Allegri probably felt even with the changes we'd do enough but in these games you always have to factor in a goal being conceded from a brainfart.