I think you watch another game. Maybe West Ham vs Man City.
Your review of the match are exaggerated because of we lose 2-1 in pre season game, can't imagine what your post if we are thrased like RM.
From what I see we are dominated the game while still lacking in stamina against Atletico. We have serious attempts, some of them hit the post (deflection in 1st half, Rabiot shoot in 2nd half)
Our passing game is improve and our attack have more option in passing to expose the opponent. Our current issue is to convert this flowing pass in to clear chance to score, but the intensity are already there.
Rabiot is great, still waiting to see Ramsey
Douglas costa showing more of dribling and some nice tricks, which not really shown under Allegri.CR7 not showed today, but in his day and different motivation it will be another story. Joao Felix are another level player, hence his transfer value > CR7. Dybala play ok, get some chances but still look unhappy and not fully sharp
With this kind of play I am really disappointed we sold Moise Kean, I think he can be our deadlock breaker even coming from bench
Another disaster that the coach must anticipating are possibility of De Ligt flopping. I think he has to much burden in mind about Italian defending style that hinder him to play his best ability like what he doing with Ajax
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For starters, thank you for taking the time to write about ur view of the game.
I believe a few of us saw it today and many will be curious to read about it.
I am sharing my views for them mostly, to to challenge you, or anyone else.
Also keep in mind one thing, this is not the first game we are dominated, concede first and then push for the equalizer. This is not the first match we fail to concede less than two goals.
Practically we have been doing this for months.
There are plenty of reasons for that sure, but what matters is what happens after Sarri.
So a special consideration of our least three matches and esp this one that happens just two weeks before our season starts and most of our preparions are nearly competed.
We faced teams that also face a great adversary and also have many changes in new faces, Inter also changed a coach and k-stars are not even a team.
They also have a reduced interest to win a random friendly.
So noone expects us to win them all.
Problem that we never shown anything good, that was the only thing that was consistent.
Our failure and it is more worrying that it happens in the same fashion ever since the Ajax days.
We have yet to recover it.
The players lost their faith on Allegri and wanted him out, so they quit trying and kept losing. Maybe we're proud some time to hunt the equalizer.
We ought to leave that behind by now and just try to show smth good, just for ONCE!!!
No matter the adversary, his system, his fitness level, his quality, we always sucked!
This is not irrelevant.
As this was a friendly and Atletico are not a possession team like Barca. They always go straight for the jugular and trust their defending of the lead. So normally they only try when they want to get that lead. As it's only a friendly, that don't need a safe score.
In the first minutes we have failed to reach their box, yet they have tried a few shots, untill one of them delivered.
The we ought to step up, but again failed to push them as a team. The way Khedira scored was completely random as he received the ball by a deflection and shot a hapless shot with the back of the net outside of their box, mostly because he had no better options and n luckily it went in.
So then Atletico had to try to score another one and they did immediately without sweating that much.
They had no incentive to try harder.
The players that started were new/young and were a far cry from the team they were last year, maybe even more than the players we chose to start.
When the pros got in, the easily dominated and erased us in second half.
This pressure ought to give the better of us.
The two weeks after the Korean rape, should have given us the time to show a massive improvement as the first two games came in the very first days Sarri took over.
Yet our passing was slower than ever.
In our first two games, Sarri tried to impose his trademark fast paced one - two possession by passing game. I particularly enjoyed the fact that we showed some such spark VS the Koreans.
But today we had none of that.
We were weak and slow and our passing game was more accurate because we were always losing with our back on the wall and minimum risks. Low pace means more possession but less chances to surprise the enemy upfront.
IMO upfront today we were more hopeless than ever!
And not just my opinion, our gameplay created no goals.
In the last 20mins, Someone decided to defend the lead and allowed us to push ahead, maybe because he realized that we are toothless anyway and he was right...
In two weeks time the season starts, in two weeks time, we showed no improvement, i for one was expecting more today.
Either result or soul, i am primarily concerned because i ve seen no soul...
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