Wouldn't panic or start blaming Max just yet.
If anything, I think this was the result of a poorly planned pre-season by the club itself. Our pre-season this year has differed a bit from previous ones in the sense that we've played fewer games. We're simply not fully there yet, it seems, in terms of preparation and fitness. Team hasn't gelled.
This time around, our pre-season programme seemed it was put together for commercial and financial reasons more than sporting ones. Which in this day and age is very understandable, especially when you're a Serie-A club trying to catch up with the other big guns in Europe. But the sporting side of things have suffered a bit in this pre-season in my opinion, and we saw the result of that today.
If anything, I think this was the result of a poorly planned pre-season by the club itself. Our pre-season this year has differed a bit from previous ones in the sense that we've played fewer games. We're simply not fully there yet, it seems, in terms of preparation and fitness. Team hasn't gelled.
This time around, our pre-season programme seemed it was put together for commercial and financial reasons more than sporting ones. Which in this day and age is very understandable, especially when you're a Serie-A club trying to catch up with the other big guns in Europe. But the sporting side of things have suffered a bit in this pre-season in my opinion, and we saw the result of that today.
