IMO the coach should be blamed mostly when the team suffers from collective under-performance.
Since there is little chance that everybody happened to be in a bad day...
not individual mistakes!
Individual mistakes from players who rarely ever commit any, is hardly the coaches fault. Since a large part of our team worked properly and some players who underperformed/injured were replaced, one can hardly blame CR for the lack of proper tools to overcome an impossible situation.
The only thing we can blame CR of, is that he did not supported our weak defense with one more defensive midfielder. But this has been our main point of criticism during the year and the reason we lost too many points because we (CR) were afraid to risk fielding just that! Therefore, personally, i wont blame him for this choice...
Dont forget that he started Giovinco and Salih and he kept Neddy and Marchionni on the bench, which are some great choices to boost with.
He later on, subbed out the useless Salih, Grygera and the off day DP.
The players who came in, Camo, Zebina and Treze were far better than them and contributed a lot to our cause, esp Camo and Zebi.
They were probably not fit enough to start the game and we cant blame for not starting them at the first place. So his pre-match and subs choices were all fine.
If CR had more subs left, he would probably sub out Tiago too, but he considered that we need to replace those injured/off form players first. He considered this to be a priority and he was right since our flank was usually our weak point and the presence of Tiago could be more tolerated that then ones he set us priorities to sub out before him.
The only thing i cant understand, is why he didnt pick Poulsen instead of Tiago,
it could be smth we are missing, like Poulsen not being fully fit, or an order issued from our mangers, to use Tiago more often, as a starter, esp against the lesser teams, so that we can sell him in the coming transfer window, easier and for more money...
Tactically, i dont think that CR made many mistakes. Our team had a flow, we were threatening from both flanks and the center of the midfield. We managed to score 3 times, even with an off day DP and without Amauri.
If some of our key players had a better day, or Chievo were proved as efficient as they usually are (much less than they were with us) we wouldnt suffer the loss of those points.
IMO CR, managed to overcome the obstacles presented to his plans, with the right choices, considering the very limited material he had available!
Our greatest tactical flaw though, the reason we conceded two goals this time and 80% of our goals during the season, is the vertical passes who brake our offside trap and expose the back of our defense.
This is a tactical flaw for sure, i am not sure if its CR's fault, or its simple beyond achievable counter-measures with this faulty material we have in our defense.
BUT since it has been repeated countless times, CR ought to do smth about it!!
I mean its ridiculous to concede the very same goal time and time again.
I never did and i wont blame the coach for individual mistakes,
the collective failure of our defense was expected,
but thats mostly because of the low quality of our starters there and this choice was made before the season even started, it was probably a choice that was imposed to CR by our board, at least in a degree!!
Soon or later we were bound to lose some points because of that and no player or the coach should be blamed because of this!
CR should considered this handicap and come up with decent plan by now, but he has been proved very indecisive with that. He is either too bold or too scared.
This is were i blame him!
For this game, he took a risk, but on theory the odds would favor us, we had a tremendous creative power and the best keeper in the world to make up for our defensive mistakes, against one of the weakest teams in the league.
This was a calculated risk.
But the coaches duty does not ends here, he also carries a blame for the decisions who affect us in the long run.
I also blame CR because he personally favors some players who have proved to be extremely limited and unable to become Juve material, ever and beyond any doubt!!!
He is personally condemning our team to bear a tactical and a quality handicap, as long as he insists on using them and i m referring to our wing backs starters here.
I believe that CR is just a pawn and he has very limited control to our managerial decisions. But he should opt for a better defense, praising our worst player of the previous season like that (Moli) and dont give any chances to a far more promising player (De Ceglie) is solely his fault.
He also limited his choices in the CB position by giving away Criscito like that,
with the way he treated him, an act witch resulted into the useless Knezevic, who limited his alternative choices to none...
And also placing our priorities into signing one more expensive midfielder (Poulsen), higher than a defender, gave him the free and very limited Mellberg too. I am not sure what proportion of these strategical mistakes, belong to CR, but he shares a fair part of this fault, for embracing and support, if not actually make these certain decisions, which resulted in the current situation...
Those decisions are still undermining our future, someone has to do smth about it, better late than never...
We should avoid blaming CR for Secco and co mistakes!
I would like to see CR for asking for better defenders, if he doesnt, he becomes a conspirator into a crime against Juve's interests, i think he can afford to raise his voice by now.
PS: the lazy ones and the ones who already know my arguments and need no explanation for them, should only read the outlined text, which makes just a paragraph, i dont want to see any complains about the length of my post.
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