All the attacks towards the end of the half were coming towards Molinaro and Sissoko was hovering towards the left side of the pitch as well. I wonder why that was...
Again, Molinaro had to cover the whole left flank himself. Putting pressure on one attacker, frees another if Nedved doesn't cover properly(which he didn't). Besides, I still reckon Molinaro handled it very well.
Palladingo can't defend... Zebina has to cover the whole right-flank to himself too. It's always like this.
I agree, that's still where his weakness lies, but Molinaro didn't do anything wrong in the first half. I'm not sure what taking Molinaro off would help anyway.
You must have missed the times Molinaro didn't bother coming out to close down players on the edge of the box then. That led to two free crosses, one of which almost went in at the end of the half.