Fiorentina had no pace in the lineup and we were terrified of counters.
You can judge our coach's gameplan by our corner kicks. Whenever we fear counters we take short corners. It is a 100% correlation to our tactic.
Ilicic skinned Isla once and was actually the closest player on the pitch to Buffon and our whole backline caught him in a second. We know Matri is not fast either. Instead we sat back and let Valero and Pizarro dictate the game. FFS, they go to bed dreaming the other team will gift them possession.
And again, the 3-5-2 has no ability to counter. When you sit deep, it's a 5-3-2 and you have 3 CBs marking 1 striker. You're at a numerical disadvantage in midfield. Valero and Pizzaro were having a kick about. You can't win balls in dangerous areas, you can only win them in your own third. The only time we can start dangerous counters is when Vidal decides to do the work of 2 or 3 players and just runs around all over the field.