Matri scored with meelan in this 2nd spell? When? Where? How?
Nail in the coffin for Milan's CL aspirations. Napoli will undoubtedly get between 65 and 80 points, and I see Roma getting between 65 and 70-ish.
If Milan can somehow have a fantastic 2nd half of the season, they might surpass Inter and Fiorentina, but even that is looking very unlikely for them now.
None of Napoli, Roma and Fiorentina are going to collapse to such an extent to give Milan a chance this year, even if they do have a very good start to the season.
Part of that is down to those teams probably all being stronger than the equivalent sides last year and part of it is down to there being a lot more easy points in Serie A this year than last year, due to the bottom half of the table being weaker, so Napoli, Roma and Fiorentina are all likely to get quite a lot of points.
Roma are still unbeaten. They remind me of us in our unbeaten year.
Because they are unbeaten?
Or is there something else?
What would happen in the following, completely unrealistic situation
serie a : finish
1 : Juventus
2 : Napoli
3 : Fiorentina
...
13 : Milan
UCL winners : Milan
What teams would go to next season's CL ? Cause we can only send 3 ?
Milan would go into the CL instead of Fiorentina, I think.
When Chelsea won the CL, they finished sixth and Spurs finished fourth.
Chelsea got a CL spot and Spurs were chucked into the Europa League.
That is, of course, assuming Italy would do things the same as they were done in England.
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Some really careless moments from Roma in a game that, broadly speaking, they played pretty well in.
Obviously the first goal Roma conceded was awful, but I found the second one very hard to understand.
Why, with not very long left and with a lead, would Roma have players chasing around high up the park trying to press Milan? Surely in those circumstances you drop back into your own half and focus on denying the opponent space.
What made it all worse, though, was that Roma didn't even fully commit to the press. They committed enough men that they were going to leave thmselves in an awkward situation if the press didn't work, but they didn't commit enough men to it to give it a reasonable chance of working.
I'd be interested to know what Garcia made of that given, from what I've seen of Roma, he seems far more inclined to focus on men behind the ball rather than on pressing high up the pitch.
Obviously there were other issues on Milan's second goal as Roma hadn't put themselves in an impossible position - just an unnecessarily difficult one.
Otherwise, I though Roma did rather well to cope without Totti and Pjanic, especially in the first half. Of course the ball retention and decision making weren't what they probably would have been with Totti and Pjanic in the team, but the movement of the front three was very good and Bradley and Strootmen were really dominant in middle of the park in the first half hour or so, even though they were outnumbered, which gave Roma a really good platform from which to control the game.
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