You can have all kinds of tactics but this squad has awful technique and fitness.
Then you look at Villarreal's midfield and you're not that impressed, are you? Same goes for Toro and Lukic - Pobega - Mandragora or whatever else made us look like amateurs this season.
It's kinda clear some things are not prepared in training. The way Cuadrado and De Sciglio were moving the ball around 65th minute can make one only laugh, amateur stuff.
Seems like Allegri is interested a lot in movement and occupying specific spaces but not so much in giving the ball some movement. We're so slow-paced that everyone can deal with it and press us. Otherwise how does one explain the lack of ability to string 3-5 passes altogether in our own half? Even totally talent-less players get it these days, as long as they are given options to make a pass when they get the ball.
Many members claimed he fixed the defence. LOL
Do this shit tonight looked like fixed?!
It's a myth that's repeated over here consistently but the fact is we're better defensively at cost of offensive output. Pirlo was crazy about attacking, so we were much better at that, while we sucked defensively. Now it's the opposite, we sacrifice the attack for the defense and that's why our strikers suffer so much.
We're a long way from here to get into some kind of balance.