I think Cannavaro is really to blame here...
This first goal they get, he looks really bad. Maybe there is a free kick, but I doubt. On his red card (which is fine imo) he is on whe wrong side of the attacker. He should his experience and position himself right, but no
So Thanx to him, it's 1-1 and wer're down to ten, not having a single CB.
When that happened, I think all of us had the feeling it was more likely they qualifed than we did.
After the red card I think Zac made a mistake subbing in Grygera - it should have been Poulsen. The reasons for that, I think he is just as good a CB and I think his confidence is higher atm.
The next mistake was that the backline was so low, they positionend themselves 1m into area, I don't care what teams you face, if you do that, they a gonna create and when you have a back four like that, they are going to score. Fulham look like a passing team, I contribute that to the fact that we kept pulling back. I couldn't reckon if Zac tried to push em forward or not - if not I think it was a clear mistake.
Maybe taking Candreva out was fine, he had not started well, but I think we made the same mistake as against Bayern - we could not keep the ball so maybe a Camo-Sissoko-Candreva would have been better in terms of holding on to the ball. Poulsen for sure, would have contributed to that instead of Grygera.
Subbing De Ceglie in I never understood. With Iaquinta out, he had no choice other than putting DP in when we had to score.
I could see taking Trezeguet out for Poulsen and putting Diego on top. We were not going to win in the air against Hangeland, so we could play the ball to Diego, and Candreava and Camoranesi should have pushed up to help him. But then again without a target man, it is very hard.
To sum up: I give Cannavaro a big fat 0 for last nights performance. 3 for his playing and -3 because he was supposed to be our leader.
Zac: I give him 4. Did the easy things. Did not show any guts, and how he thought we could stand the pressure in the 2nd half with DC in, I never understood. Didn't do enough to push our backline forward.
Chimenti was decent. Did what we could expect and then some. I don't understand bashing him, bc he was not meant to play but did what was asked of.
Diego - Not a great performance, but I don't see what he could do. He never gets any help and he is not Messi. The penalty. Unlucky, don't think it is on purpose and I don't hold it against him.
Treze. Did fine on the goal, and that was it. Couldn't do much.
Melo / Sissoko: Just not good enough with Sissoko as the better one.
Camoranesi: I expect more from him in terms of passes and holding the ball. Not good enough.
Back four: FAIL. We should be much more compact, much less space between our lines. The fact they kept ulling back, made it very hard for our midfield bc they had pull back as well and then cover more ground.