These guys really know how to park the bus. Utterly embarrassing stuff from Gattusso in a Cup Final match. This game is the complete inverse of the exhilarating league encounter at the beginning of the season.
Ronaldo of two years ago would have finished both of those chances he had. I have confidence he’ll return to the beast he was becoming pre-pandemic, but it might take a few weeks yet...
Ramsey would be golden for this game with his penetrating runs from deep on the blind side of defenders. It would give them more to think about and increase the likelihood of an error. It's just a shame that he's literally never fit.
Matuidi is completely useless in this kind of match. It's like playing with one man less.
There was an instance were matuidi received a pass in the middle of the field. A great cm would have runned with it, because he had acres of spece. Instead matuidi just makes to steps forward, turns backwards and passes the ball to Pjanic. Baffling stuff. Maybe it's sarri tactics.
Pjanic and Matuidi have been useless, don't even recall a good moment of them. Buffon and AS kept us in the game but so far we look shit. Dybala, CR7, Douglas Costa lol and Cuads are totally out of sync with everyone else. DC might've been the worst (how is this lollzillian an actual football player?). It really looks like this will be going to PK.
Its difficult creating while the opponent parks the bus, but we need stop trying to pass until we’re 10 meters from their goal. We should go less high up and wait for them to press to create some space.
These guys really know how to park the bus. Utterly embarrassing stuff from Gattusso in a Cup Final match. This game is the complete inverse of the exhilarating league encounter at the beginning of the season.
I've seen worse, no doubt, but it's still a steaming pile of garbage. Slow, labored, and ZERO synchronicity in the final third. Napoli have been ass too, but they had a couple of chances when we switched off.
I expect us to create. Otherwise, how are we going to score? This tripe about teams clamming up against us is invalid. We're the champions FFS! That's an excuse a washed up hypocritical has been like Mourinho would use.
You do realize that they defended with 11 people in their half 85% of the game?
If that's not the definition of parking the bus I don't know what it is.
Its difficult creating while the opponent parks the bus, but we need stop trying to pass until we’re 10 meters from their goal. We should go less high up and wait for them to press to create some space.
The problem with playing constant small passes is that to move up the pitch you need your entire team to move up very slowly to allow you to make the passes.
We need quick, expansive football not stale, narrow, slow football.
Napoli is playing only for counters.Other than that they park the bud.The play for a draw.And if came to penalties ,we all know the result.We are losing.
I think they know we have literally 0 creativity through the middle and the only way we can get close to entering their box is through crosses from out wide that none of our players are great at and they know they only need one chance from a counter...
It's essentially a leaf out of Milan's book from last week. It's very pragmatic tactics from Gattusso that is working so far.