[ITA] Serie A 2012/2013 (59 Viewers)
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why?!
there is no way they are good enough to play in the CL
Pretty risky system that Roma were using there.
It was dangerously close to being a genuine back three (rather than the alleged back threes that everyone else play that become back fives at the merest hint of pressure).
Anyway, Roma's central midfield needs to do more defensive work to prevent situations where the CBs are overloaded, particularly when crosses are going into the box.
De Rossi and Tachtsidis/Bradley really needed to either: work harder to get wide enough to cover the space down the sides of the CBs, so as to allow the CBs to hold position in the centre; or drop deeper to plug gaps which are created when a CB is pulled into a wide area.
It's not like Roma are likely to be left light in the middle of the park when they have Perrotta and Florenzi playing in addition to two deep midfielders.
Since the midfielders didn't really do either of those things Roma looked stretched an awful lot of the time and were pretty fortunate to concede at least once.
Still, that Totti chappy ain't bad.
His flick in behind that led to Perrotta hitting the bar was pretty unreasonable.
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So, should Napoli not have been in the CL last season?
They didn't have the squad to cope with it either, but very nearly made it to the quarter finals.
Anyway, it's not just about depth. Aside from the very top sides, who can maintain their standard when their two main forward players are both injured at the same time for an extended period?
That Lazio are still vaguely in the mix for third place - while doing well in other competitions - is a pretty good effort in my book.
It was dangerously close to being a genuine back three (rather than the alleged back threes that everyone else play that become back fives at the merest hint of pressure).
Anyway, Roma's central midfield needs to do more defensive work to prevent situations where the CBs are overloaded, particularly when crosses are going into the box.
De Rossi and Tachtsidis/Bradley really needed to either: work harder to get wide enough to cover the space down the sides of the CBs, so as to allow the CBs to hold position in the centre; or drop deeper to plug gaps which are created when a CB is pulled into a wide area.
It's not like Roma are likely to be left light in the middle of the park when they have Perrotta and Florenzi playing in addition to two deep midfielders.
Since the midfielders didn't really do either of those things Roma looked stretched an awful lot of the time and were pretty fortunate to concede at least once.
Still, that Totti chappy ain't bad.
His flick in behind that led to Perrotta hitting the bar was pretty unreasonable.
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So, should Napoli not have been in the CL last season?
They didn't have the squad to cope with it either, but very nearly made it to the quarter finals.
Anyway, it's not just about depth. Aside from the very top sides, who can maintain their standard when their two main forward players are both injured at the same time for an extended period?
That Lazio are still vaguely in the mix for third place - while doing well in other competitions - is a pretty good effort in my book.
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