There is so much work to be done on their heads. The biggest fight we have is really against ourself. Yesterday once we conceded the lack of concentration and confidence was so easy to be seen. The same happened last year when we always seemed to concede at the opening phase of the game. It’s one big concentration issue and we don’t have many world class players who can make the difference.
I think we all agree that Max had his tactics very wrong, not using a striker, Danilo als DM -> Benta and Rabiot responsible of creating things backfired pretty hard. McKennie was lost in space. What I find very disappointing is that besides Chiesa, Dybala and Cuadrado (who has to cover a lot of ground), we have a team full of players afraid to go in a 1v1. Most of the run sideways and choose for the easy pass, no opponent gets beaten or something got created. And the passing in general was to hard, or a few meters off.
And the group feels like a bunch of random guys playing together, there’s no real understating between the players. Yes, they’re willing to run harder, but none of them is able to find each other blindly. I think it’s due to the lack of a good core, ideally a top club has to have like 8 players who represent the club in the coming decade.
Last think I’d like to point out are simple rules between the players. Cuadrado his early cross is great, you should have 2 players attacking to second post if he’s in a good position to do that. Chiesa has great runs and Dybala is good cutting inside; so whenever possible he should make the run. All these simple things we’ve seen many times in the past with Mandzukic attacking the second post, Lichtsteiner overlapping, runs from Marchisio and Vidal, etc.
The most important thing for me remains never playing Rabiot and Bentancur in the same line up. It’s so destructive.
I think we all agree that Max had his tactics very wrong, not using a striker, Danilo als DM -> Benta and Rabiot responsible of creating things backfired pretty hard. McKennie was lost in space. What I find very disappointing is that besides Chiesa, Dybala and Cuadrado (who has to cover a lot of ground), we have a team full of players afraid to go in a 1v1. Most of the run sideways and choose for the easy pass, no opponent gets beaten or something got created. And the passing in general was to hard, or a few meters off.
And the group feels like a bunch of random guys playing together, there’s no real understating between the players. Yes, they’re willing to run harder, but none of them is able to find each other blindly. I think it’s due to the lack of a good core, ideally a top club has to have like 8 players who represent the club in the coming decade.
Last think I’d like to point out are simple rules between the players. Cuadrado his early cross is great, you should have 2 players attacking to second post if he’s in a good position to do that. Chiesa has great runs and Dybala is good cutting inside; so whenever possible he should make the run. All these simple things we’ve seen many times in the past with Mandzukic attacking the second post, Lichtsteiner overlapping, runs from Marchisio and Vidal, etc.
The most important thing for me remains never playing Rabiot and Bentancur in the same line up. It’s so destructive.
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