mckennie played rm many times at schalke and plays on the right side of a 3-man midfield for the nt too. he should be able to do that. also, team has been defending with the same shape for years, it should work without the ball with competent players. yes, it's probably the coach's fault that mckennie can't even run despite running being his only skill, allegri ruined his diet and probably fucked his team mate's sister too in the nt. mckennie is an examplary professional, he never breached covid protocols either, that's for sure. he played like shit against haifa, 60% pass accuracy, 10 lost possessions within 45 minutes, lost most duels, always 2 steps behind the action, but he's not to blame for that match. the coach told mckennie to let crosses in. bad setup automatically means bad individual performances.
we've been having the same blackouts within matches for years. same happened with pirlo and sarri too. scapegoat? allegri. we've been managing games like shit under sarri and pirlo too. blaming the players? fuck no. we've been signing random overpaid mercenaries without any dedication for years. mike: blame the current coach.
again, for the slow bunch: allegri should be fired. i'm also adding that the players are to blame too. i bet the slow bunch will ignore it.
all you remember from the 2nd round of previous year (vs empoli, when chiellini said "it isn't a team") is that mckennie was tried as an am/tq so the coach ruined the match. i also remember that he was subbed out at halftime and we missed all of our chances with a better setup too. i also remember that vlahovic needs 10 shots for a goal, rabiot only started to try since his next contract is at stake, bonucci lets brahim diaz run towards goal like a courteous gentleman, cuadrado is able to completely ruin a 5 v 2 counter, sandro hasn't been able to cross for years, danilo was never able to attack. but but but it's the tactics, fullbacks should be higher than vlahovic, football is simple.
your post is true in a vacuum but a nice deflection considering the context. you somehow started to talk about maccabi while completely missing and ignoring my point. you said that those who we bought recently were exemplary professionals and completely ignored the majority of my post when i proved that they aren't. we've been having more or less the same issues for years, even with strong characters in the locker and game changing players on the pitch. now we only have di maria who's expected to do some unexpected move while a few years ago we had ronaldo, dybala, higuain, pjanic, even costa for flashes lol. this is a more and more sterile squad with ageing key players. senators are almost gone, those were the only players you could blame, and it turns out that chiellini or buffon are much harder to replace than you suggested. we'd be a better team with chiellini now.
and again, for the slow bunch: allegri shouldn't be here by now, for his supposed involvement in this meh mercato and the crap job as a trainer, especially this season. that's not even up for debate. mike thinks that all of the players are true professionals for their whole careers which clearly isn't the case. in fact our recruiting has been nothing short of disastrous.