Felipe Melo (5 Viewers)
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Surprised to see there are no comments about Melo's performance yesterday, since we saw some extremely poor decision making by him.
For pretty much the complete 2nd half the entire team tried to play out the game, holding on to the 1-0 lead. Meaningless passing, keeping it as simple as possible, lacklustre posession play, trying to win time, almost never attempting to set up attacks, ...
There was absolutely no reason to play like this (and it was disgusting to watch) but, at around the 90th minute, it started to look like we were actually going to be lucky enough to pull it of.
Then all of a sudden, as the game is about to end and we finally have every reason to try and hold on to the lead, he decides it's no longer necessary to keep it simple, but the time has come for some fancy passing to try and set up an attack.
I didn't even believe it when I saw it. What a rookie mistake.
Edit: Corriere is reporting that there was some kind of confrontation between (an unhappy) Ferrara & Melo in the changing room. Melo has played that down though.
For pretty much the complete 2nd half the entire team tried to play out the game, holding on to the 1-0 lead. Meaningless passing, keeping it as simple as possible, lacklustre posession play, trying to win time, almost never attempting to set up attacks, ...
There was absolutely no reason to play like this (and it was disgusting to watch) but, at around the 90th minute, it started to look like we were actually going to be lucky enough to pull it of.
Then all of a sudden, as the game is about to end and we finally have every reason to try and hold on to the lead, he decides it's no longer necessary to keep it simple, but the time has come for some fancy passing to try and set up an attack.
I didn't even believe it when I saw it. What a rookie mistake.
Edit: Corriere is reporting that there was some kind of confrontation between (an unhappy) Ferrara & Melo in the changing room. Melo has played that down though.
I don't understand how anyone could "love" to watch that horror show again. 
As I pointed out in my match report, Melo did a lot of good stuff, as he has always done for us so far.
Sadly, he also did a lot of bad things. Hell, the good barely outweighed the bad imo.
Holding the ball too long, being to slow when tracking back, attempting a lame shot on goal without any perseverance, ...
Maybe I am too harsh, but I just didn't like what I saw from him yesterday.
As I pointed out in my match report, Melo did a lot of good stuff, as he has always done for us so far.
Sadly, he also did a lot of bad things. Hell, the good barely outweighed the bad imo.
Holding the ball too long, being to slow when tracking back, attempting a lame shot on goal without any perseverance, ...
Maybe I am too harsh, but I just didn't like what I saw from him yesterday.
Even when he has had much better performances then the average one of Bologna, he STILL makes nonchalant and stupid mistakes in terms of having a real bad and unfocused decision making in when he decides for some silly fancy pass or play when there is no need. He puts the team in danger couple a times a game with these types of things (has possession of the ball infront of the defence, and its like he is frozen in time or lost in his thoughts, and then makes a meek pass right at the closest opposition player). Mentally pretty immature stuff with these stuff.
Ofcourse, it generally doesnt effect his overall quality display (unless he is bit average like against Bologna), but its so unnecessary to make these rash and silly passes, its pretty lame to see such nonchalance from him. I noticed it in Viola too, hopefully he learns from it, or Ciro need to chew him out more.
