Basically. That had balance and width. We've shoehorned Morata into the side at the expense of two others, forcing them out of position. Cuadrado at LWB is baffling, even for him.
We have no single chance.Kulusevski is not a wing back.He should be more to the box although today he wasn't good.Two incidents make the difference.Fucking Roma.We are bad they aren't good.Ramsey is bad too,Cuadrado is awful on the left.
Positives:
Players were trying good combination plays (which didn't really work out).
Pressing was good, crosses were decent. Rabiot was excellent till the handball.
Negatives:
We look really out of shape when we lose the ball. 4-4-2 is the wrong way to go with these players.
Passing has been really sloppy.
Not controlling the tempo of the game- no way we should've conceded the second goal so late in the half, especially in the manner that we did.
Do we even know what football is?
Rabiot with a perfect law off to roma than he saves it with his hand
Kulu with a disaster fk with every single player attacking
Getting the ball back only to lay it perfecly for dzeko and a forward pass
3 vs 1?! Wtf
So much fail in this match its an acomplishment
We've obviously got loads to work on in terms of cohesion, systems, everything. Samp might have fooled us but this is being built from the ground up. Let's just hope that the experimentation doesn't last too long, because there are prepared teams in this league.
Imagine facing Atalanta with a system or performance like this. We have Napoli next as well.
Re watching their second goal... wow... Cuadrado 20 yards in our own half is fucking criminal. Especially on his own.
so lessons for pirlo from the last 45 mins:
Cuadrado is not a LWB
Morata hasn’t hand enough time training
We cannot be as aggressive against good opponents away as we were with samp at home
our defence needs some intensive training about positioning
He's been nowhere even close to getting the ball back though, tackling from the wrong side, leaving huge gaps in front of the defence, passing behind players, his pass speed has been so slow, passing to the opposition, not spotting good opportunities to play a forward pass.
Maybe he is being asked to press like a headless chicken. If so that is on Pirlo. The rest of the mistakes are basic though.