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Mokku

Senior Member
Apr 17, 2019
2,717
We play this way because we don't have players with the capability to let us do anything else. Our trident last night was disjointed from the rest of the team so Di Maria has to come deep and central. Him and Chiesa should receive the ball on the wings because 'Pogba' would carry the ball forward and drag players in, giving the wingers time and space to go 1 on 1 with an isolated defender. Since Pogba is absent, Sandro and MdS should press up but they didn't, nor did they cross for big target man Vlahovic. Even the loss of Bonucci hurts us because he hits beautiful long passes.

When we attack, we don't support the front 3. Those watching PSG Bayern saw that Mendes carries the ball all the way and then M'Bappe has space and time to do his thing. Chiesa and Di Maria start the attack far away from goal and its so much harder for them to go without support. Kostic came on and was great with Chiesa. Cuadrado didn't help much, too far away and also rusty.

Allegri takes some blame for lusting over Paredes types and not thinking about the bigger picture of building an attacking team. He is so similar to Conte in that they can't win without the perfect conditions. If your game plan massively relies on Sandro and MdS supporting the attack yet both are garbage and always play, you're not going to beat Nantes are you.
 

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s4tch

Senior Member
Mar 23, 2015
33,632
Allegri is saying the players have to move it faster and his teams always scored lots of goals. Well football is different now. The opponent gives you no respect and closes you down even if they are Monza.

So now you have to actually coach the players, not just kick it to Ibra like Milan days or watch Pirlo walk the ball out of defence because the opponent is terrified and retreats before the match starts.
so milan and juve won with him because opponents used to respect those teams, and those teams weren't even coached?

rofl
 

Xperd

Allegrophobic Infidel
Jun 1, 2012
34,896
this is the grinta culture toxicity
This guy will live and die by his 'philosophy' of football. A true radical jihadi.

Sad thing is we had so many 'followers' of his who brought into his BS and justifying his garbage football by saying 'Juve always played this way', 'Go support Man City if you want offensive football'

Allegri and this club probably deserve each other at this point. One guy is eroding the team on the pitch and another guy is destroying this club off the pitch.
 

Cerval

Senior Member
Feb 20, 2016
26,829
This guy will live and die by his 'philosophy' of football. A true radical jihadi.

Sad thing is we had so many 'followers' of his who brought into his BS and justifying his garbage football by saying 'Juve always played this way', 'Go support Man City if you want offensive football'

Allegri and this club probably deserve each other at this point. One guy is eroding the team on the pitch and another guy is destroying this club off the pitch.
Doing bare minimum to get by is celebrated. No wonder this club's culture is permeated with loser attitude
 

MikeM

Footballing Hipster celebrating 4th place with Tuz
Sep 21, 2008
12,834
so milan and juve won with him because opponents used to respect those teams, and those teams weren't even coached?

rofl
Wow Post Ironic level strawman. That's not at all what I said. But Max succeeded at a different type of game and the sport is simply not the same now. Is that really debatable?

Of course those teams were coached. But for a different sport it seems. It was obvious from our first match in his 2nd tenure that he adapted nothing and here we are 2 years later..
 

lgorTudor

Senior Member
Jan 15, 2015
32,951
A lot of exaggeration here, like usual.
It's a no win situation here when we win people criticize the performance when we give a good performance people criticize that he didn't win.
Sometimes I wonder if you sad remains of House of Throat are even capable of reading scoreboards or tables
 

Post Ironic

Senior Member
Feb 9, 2013
42,253
Doing bare minimum to get by is celebrated. No wonder this club's culture is permeated with loser attitude
And somehow this started in 2018-19 with the Ronaldo signing. Somehow, what should have started a push to get to new heights, turned into a disastrous descent into lethargy and malfeasance on all levels.

Looking at just our pt totals, goal differentials, European results, we’ve progressively gotten worse every year since that 2017-18 season where we destroyed the league and we’re a top CL contender for the last time.

2017-18: 95 pts / +62 gd / CI win 4-0 Milan / CL QF exit 3-4 R. Madrid

2018-19: 90 pts / +40 gd / CI QF exit 0-3 Atalanta / CL QF exit 2-3 Ajax

2019-20: 83 pts / +33 gd / CI Final loss 0-1 Napoli / CL Rof16 exit 2-2 Lyon

2020-21: 78 pts / +39 gd / CI win 3-2 Atalanta / CL Rof16 exit 4-4 Porto

2021-22: 70 pts / +20 gd / CI final loss 2-4 Inter / CL Rof16 exit 1-4 Villareal

It’s a steady and consistent decline into shit results and performances. It’s sort of impressive in a very depressing way that we managed to decline so hard in all aspects, players, coach, management, financial immediately upon signing Ronaldo. Max cracked under the pressure that season, and spent more time arguing with the press than coaching in the 2nd half of the season, replaced by a useless one-trick pony in Sarri, and then a rookie over his head in Pirlo, and then a return to washed up Allegri. Tootsie had no clue what he was doing as sporting director and made terrible signings and gave terrible contracts. Agnelli went power crazy and blew up all the good work he’d done.

Will be curious to see if the club can recover from this period of total incompetence
 

LiquidPLP

Senior Member
Jun 9, 2012
12,237
And somehow this started in 2018-19 with the Ronaldo signing. Somehow, what should have started a push to get to new heights, turned into a disastrous descent into lethargy and malfeasance on all levels.

Looking at just our pt totals, goal differentials, European results, we’ve progressively gotten worse every year since that 2017-18 season where we destroyed the league and we’re a top CL contender for the last time.

2017-18: 95 pts / +62 gd / CI win 4-0 Milan / CL QF exit 3-4 R. Madrid

2018-19: 90 pts / +40 gd / CI QF exit 0-3 Atalanta / CL QF exit 2-3 Ajax

2019-20: 83 pts / +33 gd / CI Final loss 0-1 Napoli / CL Rof16 exit 2-2 Lyon

2020-21: 78 pts / +39 gd / CI win 3-2 Atalanta / CL Rof16 exit 4-4 Porto

2021-22: 70 pts / +20 gd / CI final loss 2-4 Inter / CL Rof16 exit 1-4 Villareal

It’s a steady and consistent decline into shit results and performances. It’s sort of impressive in a very depressing way that we managed to decline so hard in all aspects, players, coach, management, financial immediately upon signing Ronaldo. Max cracked under the pressure that season, and spent more time arguing with the press than coaching in the 2nd half of the season, replaced by a useless one-trick pony in Sarri, and then a rookie over his head in Pirlo, and then a return to washed up Allegri. Tootsie had no clue what he was doing as sporting director and made terrible signings and gave terrible contracts. Agnelli went power crazy and blew up all the good work he’d done.

Will be curious to see if the club can recover from this period of total incompetence
To recover you need competent people in charge. Currently we have none it seems. We're in for quite a ride it seems.
 

kappa96

Senior Member
Jun 20, 2018
7,469
This is something that happens to a lot of players and teams. When you take the lead, you tend to be a bit more cautious and sit back a little. If you've played football before, I'm sure you've witnessed this first hand. Very often coaches will yell players forward, but it's almost as if a sort of mental block is preventing them from doing so. Imo it's mostly lack of confidence really, I don't think it's a conscious decision at all.
I don't agree with this.
I play football as a Sunday league player at almost 37, in my country, but mental blocks never happenes period.
I agree there is different scenarios, where you take the lead as an underdog, or huge underdog and you park the bus hopping for a counter but 9 out of 10 times the favorites always turn the game around, granted they have something to play for.
As for Juve with Nantes something is obviously off with motivation of players as I don't understand how a big favorite team in Juve doesn't go out there with the mindset of putting at least 3 - 4 against Nantes.
This 1 - 0, energy conserving nonsense looks ingrained in the mindset of players.
Maybe that's how you win championships, but modern football has moved from this.
In my division huge favorites always beats us easily. You can practically see their hunger on the football pitch.
Juve just strolls around after 1 - 0 waiting for the match to end. Probably the mercenaries that wear the shirt think that's enough.
 

Badass J Elkann

It's time to go!!
Feb 12, 2006
68,947
This is something that happens to a lot of players and teams. When you take the lead, you tend to be a bit more cautious and sit back a little. If you've played football before, I'm sure you've witnessed this first hand. Very often coaches will yell players forward, but it's almost as if a sort of mental block is preventing them from doing so. Imo it's mostly lack of confidence really, I don't think it's a conscious decision at all.
Lack of confidence and lack of identity. If a coach can teach his team about attack being the best form of defence that's different, Allegri's 'let the players use their brains' approach is not a particularly good one especially with some of the shit we have in our team
 

Vlad

In Allegri We Trust
May 23, 2011
24,029
And somehow this started in 2018-19 with the Ronaldo signing. Somehow, what should have started a push to get to new heights, turned into a disastrous descent into lethargy and malfeasance on all levels.

Looking at just our pt totals, goal differentials, European results, we’ve progressively gotten worse every year since that 2017-18 season where we destroyed the league and we’re a top CL contender for the last time.

2017-18: 95 pts / +62 gd / CI win 4-0 Milan / CL QF exit 3-4 R. Madrid

2018-19: 90 pts / +40 gd / CI QF exit 0-3 Atalanta / CL QF exit 2-3 Ajax

2019-20: 83 pts / +33 gd / CI Final loss 0-1 Napoli / CL Rof16 exit 2-2 Lyon

2020-21: 78 pts / +39 gd / CI win 3-2 Atalanta / CL Rof16 exit 4-4 Porto

2021-22: 70 pts / +20 gd / CI final loss 2-4 Inter / CL Rof16 exit 1-4 Villareal

It’s a steady and consistent decline into shit results and performances. It’s sort of impressive in a very depressing way that we managed to decline so hard in all aspects, players, coach, management, financial immediately upon signing Ronaldo. Max cracked under the pressure that season, and spent more time arguing with the press than coaching in the 2nd half of the season, replaced by a useless one-trick pony in Sarri, and then a rookie over his head in Pirlo, and then a return to washed up Allegri. Tootsie had no clue what he was doing as sporting director and made terrible signings and gave terrible contracts. Agnelli went power crazy and blew up all the good work he’d done.

Will be curious to see if the club can recover from this period of total incompetence
I think its when, not if.

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Sometimes I wonder if you sad remains of House of Throat are even capable of reading scoreboards or tables
If the miserables like you consider that a throating post, your head is even more stuck up your butthole than I imagined. Consider getting some fresh air every now and then.

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It's a no win situation here when we win people criticize the performance when we give a good performance people criticize that he didn't win.
Its nonsense. History revisionists, they have known it all along. Try to find a difference in their posts now and 4-5 years ago. Allegri should be sacked, no doubt about it but these lot will turn against any coach pretty quickly.

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Always hated his face when he smiles, there's just something about it that looks so off putting, can't really describe why.
Ive always hated Kahn's or Effenberg's face, regardless whether they smiled or not. :p
 
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Hist

Founder of Hism
Jan 18, 2009
11,615
We play this way because we don't have players with the capability to let us do anything else. Our trident last night was disjointed from the rest of the team so Di Maria has to come deep and central. Him and Chiesa should receive the ball on the wings because 'Pogba' would carry the ball forward and drag players in, giving the wingers time and space to go 1 on 1 with an isolated defender. Since Pogba is absent, Sandro and MdS should press up but they didn't, nor did they cross for big target man Vlahovic. Even the loss of Bonucci hurts us because he hits beautiful long passes.

When we attack, we don't support the front 3. Those watching PSG Bayern saw that Mendes carries the ball all the way and then M'Bappe has space and time to do his thing. Chiesa and Di Maria start the attack far away from goal and its so much harder for them to go without support. Kostic came on and was great with Chiesa. Cuadrado didn't help much, too far away and also rusty.

Allegri takes some blame for lusting over Paredes types and not thinking about the bigger picture of building an attacking team. He is so similar to Conte in that they can't win without the perfect conditions. If your game plan massively relies on Sandro and MdS supporting the attack yet both are garbage and always play, you're not going to beat Nantes are you.
This is not Pirlo's team mate. He changed the entire midfield and most of the attack and its worse than before.

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And somehow this started in 2018-19 with the Ronaldo signing. Somehow, what should have started a push to get to new heights, turned into a disastrous descent into lethargy and malfeasance on all levels.

Looking at just our pt totals, goal differentials, European results, we’ve progressively gotten worse every year since that 2017-18 season where we destroyed the league and we’re a top CL contender for the last time.

2017-18: 95 pts / +62 gd / CI win 4-0 Milan / CL QF exit 3-4 R. Madrid

2018-19: 90 pts / +40 gd / CI QF exit 0-3 Atalanta / CL QF exit 2-3 Ajax

2019-20: 83 pts / +33 gd / CI Final loss 0-1 Napoli / CL Rof16 exit 2-2 Lyon

2020-21: 78 pts / +39 gd / CI win 3-2 Atalanta / CL Rof16 exit 4-4 Porto

2021-22: 70 pts / +20 gd / CI final loss 2-4 Inter / CL Rof16 exit 1-4 Villareal

It’s a steady and consistent decline into shit results and performances. It’s sort of impressive in a very depressing way that we managed to decline so hard in all aspects, players, coach, management, financial immediately upon signing Ronaldo. Max cracked under the pressure that season, and spent more time arguing with the press than coaching in the 2nd half of the season, replaced by a useless one-trick pony in Sarri, and then a rookie over his head in Pirlo, and then a return to washed up Allegri. Tootsie had no clue what he was doing as sporting director and made terrible signings and gave terrible contracts. Agnelli went power crazy and blew up all the good work he’d done.

Will be curious to see if the club can recover from this period of total incompetence
Max #Allegri to 'Sky': "Do I want an aggressive #Juve after the 1-0? It's not that I want a #Juve of 1-0, you drive me crazy when you say these things. You make me angry when you say that 's...'. If we fail to score in different situations... this is not good. I never wanted my squads to win by only 1-0, it's all talk. Look at the stats, my squads have almost had all the time one of the best attacks. I can't hear myself saying these things, who wants to win 1-0".

Is that true? From all Max seasons, how often were we highest scoring team in the league? How did we rank on offense in each?


EDIT: Okay I pulled the data

22/23: 6th in Total Goals scored :lol:
21/22: 11th :lol:
18/19: 3rd
17/18: 2nd
16/17: 3rd
15/16: 3rd
14/15: 1st


One of the best attacks all the time :lol:. The guy have been in the top 2 of a very weak Serie A only twice in 7 years and dares to say he is not a defensive coach.

Morata said it best "0 shots on goal? mister would be proud of us" :lol:
 
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