at this moment only a Conte dreaded speech could turn tables, they are playing from their heart, against the biggest foe and they have claimed this night, for us, this is just another game...
Looking at the goal again, that gap between the back three and midfield is huge. Credit to kalicinic and fully deserved. I'm glad we conceded. Time to wake the fuck up.
What was so interesting about it? Chiellini's passing or Khedira's runs? Or Marchisio? Or Sturaro given the responsibility to do everything in the middle?
What about Alex Sandro getting caught out of position at least 5 times? Or Cuadrado's impressive attacking plays?
What was so interesting about it? Chiellini's passing or Khedira's runs? Or Marchisio? Or Sturaro given the responsibility to do everything in the middle?
What about Alex Sandro getting caught out of position at least 5 times? Or Cuadrado's impressive attacking plays?
Why so touchy again? It was interesting tactically. Fiorentina pressed really well and played with a good tempo forcing us into mistakes. Lots of challenges by both teams, will be interesting to see how the game develops in the second half.
Besides maybe that one game against Roma, Padoin never actively hurt the team every time he touched the ball, like how Sturaro has done for us all season.
You can tell in the first 5 mins whether this team is going to do anything in a game, we haven't matched them in any respect. Seen it all too much this season.
I suspected we'd put in a shoddy performance tonight.
The lack of possessional composure, the lack of any connected forward moving possession, accuracy, control or movement has been eye wateringly bad. The midfield looks pisspoor without Pjanic.
We need to get Sturaro off at half time before he gets a second yellow in the second half, Get Cuadrado off and get Pjaca up front from the start of the 2nd half.
Allegri has a real problem on his hands with the starting eleven.
If Sturaro starts the second half I'll be disappointed, not to mention shocked/ disgusted.
There was hardly 10-15 minutes active play.
10 seconds play - foul - 5 seconds play - throw in - 3 seconds play - foul - foul- throw in - 10 seconds play - foul.
Why so touchy again? It was interesting tactically. Fiorentina pressed really well and played with a good tempo forcing us into mistakes. Lots of challenges by both teams, will be interesting to see how the game develops in the second half.
for them, both the fans and the players, this is one of the most important fans of the season!
they are very motivated and displaying one of their best games...
Not a fan of Cuadrado at RB but we need to go for it, 4-3-1-2 is the only formation we have looked decent at this season and we need to get back in the game.
He's not a great RB so Sturaro would have to do some covering.
Problem is with the 352 people press us high up the pitch and because the gaps are too big between forwards and MF we keep panicing on the ball and gifting possession back. We used to get away with it with pogba Vidal and pirlo because they were comfortable on the ball.... now we have Sturaro and robotic Khedira :'(