Fabio Quagliarella (63 Viewers)
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Lost the ball a few times, didn't receive an obvious pass from Giovinco, who chose to make a pussy shot instead, in the best counter chance he had the opposing defender stopped the ball with his hands, all in all not much of an impact, but then again, you can't ask much from him in 20-25 minutes he played, especially if Shakhtar is passing the ball around the defense and we're sticking to 352, being pretty much impotent to press their backline with two players..
I don't think we should be blaming the players for this as much as the staff and their inability to give one pairing a run of games to develop an understanding. Despite Quags form he is benched for Roma and Matri given a start, he didn't even come on as a sub late on while Gio did. And then bringing him on as part of a pairing that didn't work earlier in the week, you can't really knock on either player to be honest.
As of the last game, you'd find people here saying its splendid that all our strikers are in form, and today when none of them lived up to the billing we talk shit about em. But fact of the matter is, every good striker or forward, will never live up to potential without having an understanding with his partner. If Vucinic is a sure shot, then we need to pick one of Quag, Matri and Gio and give tthem each a run of games with Vucinic to see how they settle. Right now, its too haphazard. Good sense would've suggested Quag getting a start against Roma but he didn't for no fault of his. You're never going to have anyone finding match rhythmn with our confused striker policy. You got to pick a pairing and persist, like we used to do with Borriello. Coz right now even Vucinic isn't able to optimise his game playing off a new partner every week.
As of the last game, you'd find people here saying its splendid that all our strikers are in form, and today when none of them lived up to the billing we talk shit about em. But fact of the matter is, every good striker or forward, will never live up to potential without having an understanding with his partner. If Vucinic is a sure shot, then we need to pick one of Quag, Matri and Gio and give tthem each a run of games with Vucinic to see how they settle. Right now, its too haphazard. Good sense would've suggested Quag getting a start against Roma but he didn't for no fault of his. You're never going to have anyone finding match rhythmn with our confused striker policy. You got to pick a pairing and persist, like we used to do with Borriello. Coz right now even Vucinic isn't able to optimise his game playing off a new partner every week.
Spot on Baggio. We expect our players to be benched one week, then start the next playing 105% and scoring. That's just not the material we have at hand. Both our CF's (Quags and Matri) would bag 12-15 goals in a full Serie A season if they got consistent playing time. It's not much, but it's what we have at our disposal and I do not understand why we don't use them. Rotate Gio for Vucinic when Mirko needs a breather, when you rotate Vucinic you play the other CF with Giovinco and work that pair during the week. So we have two sets of strikers with some sort of understanding, instead of shuffling them around up to three times per week.
Then again, I can't really be mad at this, since we're undefeated in 45 Serie A games - but everyone wants further improvement
Then again, I can't really be mad at this, since we're undefeated in 45 Serie A games - but everyone wants further improvement
I don't agree there. Had a good pass to Licht in the box, won the ball a couple of times in our half, even had a nice interchange with Gio where his shot was blocked by a defender that eventually won the corner. Definitely lost the ball a couple of times last night, but considering the movement around him or the lack thereof with an absent mid and wings, hardly the one who should be taking the blame for our inadequacies last night.
Definitely slower than Matri last night, but for Quag to really optimise his game, he needs to be close to the final third where he could apply a short burst of energy or shoot from decent range coz his biggest strength is his finesse. He has more skill than Matri and that could make him a more lethal option around the area, but only when we let him settle. Expecting him to come off and pull cameos every ten days doesn't help a player find or keep his form. Its very unsettling.
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Exactly. 3 games at a bare minimum no matter what. God knows what Quag would've done against Roma. It would've probably got him a starting spot against Shaktar too. But fighting for your place one match at a time is not helping the players or the team.
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Exactly. 3 games at a bare minimum no matter what. God knows what Quag would've done against Roma. It would've probably got him a starting spot against Shaktar too. But fighting for your place one match at a time is not helping the players or the team.
Maybe @Cheesio will know.
Now you open an encyclopedia, look up Palestine and see what kind of people live there. I don't know what they are, but they ain't crackers thats for damn sure
Well he certainly wasn't black. More white than black. Google image search 'Jesus', you don't see any pictures of a black jesus.
Now you open an encyclopedia, look up Palestine and see what kind of people live there. I don't know what they are, but they ain't crackers thats for damn sure
