In any other conditions I would have said that this loss is a good result, one goal down, an away goal, we played better in an away game, etc. but I don't see us not concede at home so this away goal is not really of that importance with this team. What needs to be done is to keep storming them and never go to sleep like we did in the second half ahead of their goal. Will we do that? We have never ever done it so ...
I really annoys me how we did not even try in the first half, we went one goal down but we had no idea what to do. We kept to our plan of playing long balls to Tevez and Vucinic who was almost asleep were it not for the crowd noise. The first half saw a clumsy Asamoah, an inefficient Lichtsteiner, a nonchalat Pirlo, a wasteful Pogba, an invisible Marchisio and a selfish Tevez.
The sad situation is equalizing and seeing Benfica in shock and still bring in the most useless forward ever and sit back only to concede. This is what I call pussy football.
I still think we have a chance to go to the final but we have to really play a game like no other. The tricky part is if we lose to Sassuolo and put our energy on the return match we will be really risking the league lead ahead of the Roma game. I said it before many times but this team really enjoys putting itself in difficult situations.
Buffon 6
Caceres 6
Bonucci 4
Chiellini 6.5
Lichtsteiner 6
Pogba 6.5
Pirlo 6.5
Marchsio 6.5
Asamoah 6.5
Tevez 7
Vucinic 3
Giovinco 6
Osvaldo 4.5