Last night's debacle was disappointing more than anything from Ranieri.
As i said in the match thread there i completely understand that he started with that formation but there were other decisions that i want to focus on.
There was a risk in starting with the 433 last night as we have a weakened defense and exposing it by starting either almiron or Tiago was too great and i agree with him from that perspective.
So understandably the only options in the center of midfield were brazzo and grygera. Brazzo is the obvious option as we need grygera in the back line.
So we would playing a player out of position to keep the balance, so going with the 433 would be an obvious risk there. As consistently this season it wasn't our formation.
Add to that marchionni played really well on the wing in midweek, so all those were factors leading to starting with the 442.
We did well in the first half, controlled the game and went really close on several occasions.
The DP sub was the obvious mistake he did as we lost the creativity from the front line, which was absolutely needed as they flooded the midfield.
Introducing Iaquinta also limited his substitution options. As he would've had a real ace up his sleeve if he had waited and could've easily put him on the right instead of an ineffective marchionni. I thought he really shot himself in the foot there.
The other mistake was that he kept brazzo there in the midfield when it was really evident that we couldn't get anything through the midfield as it wasn't creative enough.
If he doesn't have any faith in both Almiron and Tiago then he should sell them today before tomorrow as a 4 year old would've seen that we need something else in the center of the midfield.
It wasn't only about Ranieri's lack of adventurousness, but also about his lack of preparation(One characteristic i really admired in him, just remember the Inter game) and finally he read the game all wrong.
He needs to wise up because when the coach starts having off days then we have major issues.
As i said in the match thread there i completely understand that he started with that formation but there were other decisions that i want to focus on.
There was a risk in starting with the 433 last night as we have a weakened defense and exposing it by starting either almiron or Tiago was too great and i agree with him from that perspective.
So understandably the only options in the center of midfield were brazzo and grygera. Brazzo is the obvious option as we need grygera in the back line.
So we would playing a player out of position to keep the balance, so going with the 433 would be an obvious risk there. As consistently this season it wasn't our formation.
Add to that marchionni played really well on the wing in midweek, so all those were factors leading to starting with the 442.
We did well in the first half, controlled the game and went really close on several occasions.
The DP sub was the obvious mistake he did as we lost the creativity from the front line, which was absolutely needed as they flooded the midfield.
Introducing Iaquinta also limited his substitution options. As he would've had a real ace up his sleeve if he had waited and could've easily put him on the right instead of an ineffective marchionni. I thought he really shot himself in the foot there.
The other mistake was that he kept brazzo there in the midfield when it was really evident that we couldn't get anything through the midfield as it wasn't creative enough.
If he doesn't have any faith in both Almiron and Tiago then he should sell them today before tomorrow as a 4 year old would've seen that we need something else in the center of the midfield.
It wasn't only about Ranieri's lack of adventurousness, but also about his lack of preparation(One characteristic i really admired in him, just remember the Inter game) and finally he read the game all wrong.
He needs to wise up because when the coach starts having off days then we have major issues.
