The point is Allegri teams have a history of looking quite poor in the first half of the season and looking very good in the second half. There’s a repeating pattern there, which provides encouragement and faith in his ability to have the team peaking at the right time. Sport science isn’t some esoteric voodoo, it’s a well established science with concepts like periodization.
@Zacheryah
To your point that our current form is worrying, and we are getting awfully close to crunch time without sorting shit out... I agree with you 100%. I’m worried about our form and fitness and whether we will sort our starting XI out, hit our extra gear at the right time, but until we really fail to do so, I’m going to have faith in our coach to get it right, a coach who has delivered results year in, year out.
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Yep. Beating Roma with record point totals for them of 85 and 87, and Napoli with a record point total of 91, all in the last 5 years gives me so much joy.
And it gives us hilarious shit like “Scudetto of honesty” and “intellectually honest paladins of football.”