The other major issue here is that the core of this team is shaped around sticking square pegs in round holes, last year it was Di Maria in the SS role while this year it’s Chiesa being played out of position there just to keep that 3-5-2 hybrid going with the makeshift defence of brazilians LB and RB turned into full time CB’s or with Weah and Mckennie as main RWB’s of which is none of theirs natural position and the classic Locatelli dropping down between the CB’s to pick up the ball like the regista that he will never be, this just to name the most evident ones…
Games like in Udine will likely be a rare occurance and fooled us into believing that it might somehow just about work this time around but the harsh reality check is that the squad should be shaped around it’s very best players being played in their best position but due to the injury prone and unbalanced mess that the squad is we got forced into this formation last season for ‘defensive solidity’ reasoning which arguably did work out for a while but then it convincingly spiraled downwards and now due to Max’s stubbornness cumulated with the club’s financial restraints we just can’t seem able to build away from it despite the squad being poorly equipped for it to work on the long run against stronger opponents, even more so now with Kostic also seemingly on the way out and the lack of consistency from our current starting wingbacks.