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Hust

Senior Member
Hustini
May 29, 2005
93,703
Alright.

Go a goal down. Then a man down.


Perfect time to drop our heads but we pulled through with a 6 goal game. Totally responded the way this team needed and this is the perfect confidence builder.

The leaky defense will eventually sort itself out, its the mental capitulation that has been a major issue. Today was the first step of fixing that problem.
 

K.O.

Senior Member
Nov 24, 2005
13,883
I like how we absolutely destroyed them with 10 men. The team mentality was on point. But we need to sort out that defense. Good start by sticking with Rugani and never playing Benatia.
 

Ocelot

Midnight Marauder
Jul 13, 2013
18,943
Alright.

Go a goal down. Then a man down.


Perfect time to drop our heads but we pulled through with a 6 goal game. Totally responded the way this team needed and this is the perfect confidence builder.

The leaky defense will eventually sort itself out, its the mental capitulation that has been a major issue. Today was the first step of fixing that problem.
Why?
 

Hust

Senior Member
Hustini
May 29, 2005
93,703
Max needs to give a back line a good run of games without constantly changing the lineup (Asa/Sandro, Licht/Stu/Barz, Benatia/Rugani, etc).

I think the Rugani-Chiellini pairing is the best duo we have, easily. Sandro should hardly ever need a rest and should be playing. Licht/MDS only for RB when both are fit.
 

Monty

Tuz Royalty
May 2, 2017
2,592
Max Allegri

“I wanted to rest Mandzukic for the next game anyway… In fact, I want to thank him, because we had to get back to winning games by defending and suffering for the result, so we can only thank him.”

Lol

Allegri and Mourinho should have a "Quote off"
 

Hust

Senior Member
Hustini
May 29, 2005
93,703
To answer your question (I forgot to :lol:) - Once the backline is set in stone more or less I think they will grow as a new pairing to finally move past the Bonucci void. It will take time but I still am confident the leaky defense will sort out soon enough.
 

zizinho

Senior Member
Apr 14, 2013
51,816
Max Allegri

“I wanted to rest Mandzukic for the next game anyway… In fact, I want to thank him, because we had to get back to winning games by defending and suffering for the result, so we can only thank him.”

Lol

Allegri and Mourinho should have a "Quote off"
:lol: this guy is amazing
 
Apr 19, 2007
3,959
Any defense gets better with continuity. The more games they play together the better they should get. Also Sandro has bee off form and everyone knows he will go beast mode at some point. Already looking good but will find his feet soon. Also Howedes could add some much needed stability to the right side. He didnt leave Germany to sit on the bench so when hes fit I think we will play a pretty versatile back 3 and 4

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Yeah but everytime we sell key players, we have a bunch of people here who justify the sales and state their 'opinions' as facts and shove it down the throats of people who disagree. While you choose to remain silent at those times. You know which people I'm talking about. As long as there is a positive spin to those people's opinions , it must be true and FACT I guess.

Beppe did a poor job at the mercato. It's an opinion and it should be respected.

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If anything Beppe gets destroyed every year only to be deemed a genius at the end. Everyone can have your opinion but dont bash him now and then make crazy claims as if the team going to the cl finals wasnt 100% built by him
 

duranfj

Senior Member
Jul 30, 2015
8,799
Why he didn't sub Higuain was beyond any logic, lets keep just one CF in front that is struggling to hold any ball for a quite long time, allow to the rival to keep pressure high, end any chance of counter attack on Pipa's feet and made Paulo go to the right :sergio:

Thank god they r shit in aerials duels and Rugani amend his mistakes with a goal and one assistance.... Max is being a retard wenger level in this game, I guess he was thinking about build confidence to our 90m guy in a game that anyone could made a goal, except Pipa of course
 

Osman

Koul Khara!
Aug 30, 2002
61,502
Subbing Dybala instead was much more logical choice. He was dead and it was the opposite of type game that was ideal for him after the red card, besides assisting from freekick. Had to work much more off the ball wide , not quick enough for counters and was misplaced in left side out of necessity (his job became getting fouled for freekicks, but that wore him down). Costa for him made sense. Speed and natural winger, left more space for Khedira to push centrally.


Taking out Gonzalo would been stupid. We needed reference point up top, and Higuains only alternative as box presence CF got himself sent off...



No one on the bench that can do Higuains job. Someone had to occupy the defence attention in the box so Khedira could get the space he got.

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Apr 19, 2007
3,959
Why he didn't sub Higuain was beyond any logic, lets keep just one CF in front that is struggling to hold any ball for a quite long time, allow to the rival to keep pressure high, end any chance of counter attack on Pipa's feet and made Paulo go to the right :sergio:

Thank god they r $#@! in aerials duels and Rugani amend his mistakes with a goal and one assistance.... Max is being a retard wenger level in this game, I guess he was thinking about build confidence to our 90m guy in a game that anyone could made a goal, except Pipa of course
Higgy did a really good job of keeping the ball at his feat and waiting for us to get out. How can you say he made thr wrong choice when we won while down a man for most of the game.
 

duranfj

Senior Member
Jul 30, 2015
8,799
Higgy did a really good job of keeping the ball at his feat and waiting for us to get out. How can you say he made thr wrong choice when we won while down a man for most of the game.
Did u really see the game? How many counter attack could we built in the 70 minutes Pipa hold the ball according to u?

Pipa didn't hold the ball properly ever, he took all the wrong choices u could possibly take. Max was an asshole, JGC was the best player in our team so he could put another MF and let JGC in the wing, we did neither, we put a weird 3 MF in some parts with Juan like RCM and switching to 4 with Paulo in the left in others, letting just a useless Pipa in front.
 
Apr 19, 2007
3,959
Did u really see the game? How many counter attack could we built in the 70 minutes Pipa hold the ball according to u?

Pipa didn't hold the ball properly ever, he took all the wrong choices u could possibly take. Max was an asshole, JGC was the best player in our team so he could put another MF and let JGC in the wing, we did neither, we put a weird 3 MF in some parts with Juan like RCM and switching to 4 with Paulo in the left in others, letting just a useless Pipa in front.
So do you think our goal was only to counter? No because max didnt trust our defense sitting to far back so we tried to play in to feet and get our team out of the back so we could get numnbers forward. You judge the decision to leave Higgy in based on what tactic you wanted when thats not what we were going for.
He held the ball well quite a bit actually and linked up well. Cuads was a fantastic player this game I agree. What did you want him to do? He was all over the place and on of our main outleats mainly due to them attacking that side of the field. Im confused what you didnt like? You wanted there to be more counters? Did you want Dybala as the lone striker?
 

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