Maurizio Sarri (133 Viewers)
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Well I can only speak for myself but I feel frustrated watching the club move backwards, especially during live games.
While I don't blame Sarri entirely for this (its the upper management who are to blame imo) he is an easy and unsympathetic target. Especially given his crude, anti Juventus past.
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Lgortudor is a Pol edgelord, that's like his whole shtick. His posts are not representative of any anti-Sarri crowd.
While I don't blame Sarri entirely for this (its the upper management who are to blame imo) he is an easy and unsympathetic target. Especially given his crude, anti Juventus past.
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Lgortudor is a Pol edgelord, that's like his whole shtick. His posts are not representative of any anti-Sarri crowd.
True and Sarri deserves more time because of it but i think the concerns are valid when the performances are so poor at times. The final season under Allegri was unimpressive but we never looked as impotent at clueless as we have at times under Sarri. Not since pre-Conte have we seen the low lows.
as i said, to be fair, its also not all on Sarri. We've got a non functional midfield and 1 1/2 wingers. That is not Sarri's fault. That is the fault of upper management.
The lack of balance of this team is ridiculous for a club that claims to be targeting the CL. Maybe i am too harsh on Sarri because he is the head coach when really my beef is with Tootsie
as i said, to be fair, its also not all on Sarri. We've got a non functional midfield and 1 1/2 wingers. That is not Sarri's fault. That is the fault of upper management.
The lack of balance of this team is ridiculous for a club that claims to be targeting the CL. Maybe i am too harsh on Sarri because he is the head coach when really my beef is with Tootsie
Even during this slump, our passing is still faster and more accurate than it was last season.
Don’t believe me? Go and watch our away game to Lazio again (January 2019) and our home game against Ajax. We could not two meaningful few passes together if our life depended on it. They pressed us and we just fell apart. There were other examples of this last season, but those are the first that came to mind.
Don’t believe me? Go and watch our away game to Lazio again (January 2019) and our home game against Ajax. We could not two meaningful few passes together if our life depended on it. They pressed us and we just fell apart. There were other examples of this last season, but those are the first that came to mind.
Of course our game has improved from the latter half/ end of last season. We were a complete mess and it got Allegri sacked.
But I would suggest, improving on the most disastrous form of the Allegri era (alongside the first 10 games of 15-16) shouldn’t be the goal of a club with ambitions of European glory. We have less points, less goals, and look substantially worse on the field than the team did at the start of last season. Last season we followed up our impressive start with our attack turning to shit mid season but you think perhaps that might be in part due to Costa being injured/suspended/in awful form all year. Dybala being in shit form all year after Young Boys. Higuain being sold. An even worse midfield. Etc etc
I see excuses made this year like we have no midfield, even though it’s substantially better than last year (still not good enough). Costa is injured and we have no wingers, when he was injured most of last year too and so was Cuadrado (left off CL knockout lists because he was injured for the entire winter). Chiellini out injured, when he was injured for our most important CL matches last year too. If these weren’t acceptable excuses last year, I’m curious as to why they are this year?
I agree there is reason to be optimistic, as results-wise we have had a fantastic start, and I’m loving reborn and motivated Dybala and De Ligt was a monster signing... but there’s also reason for concern considering our overall anemic attack for the season thus far. Anyways, we’ll find out more about this team and its strength come February-March and the knockouts. I hope we make great strides by then, especially in attack.
But I would suggest, improving on the most disastrous form of the Allegri era (alongside the first 10 games of 15-16) shouldn’t be the goal of a club with ambitions of European glory. We have less points, less goals, and look substantially worse on the field than the team did at the start of last season. Last season we followed up our impressive start with our attack turning to shit mid season but you think perhaps that might be in part due to Costa being injured/suspended/in awful form all year. Dybala being in shit form all year after Young Boys. Higuain being sold. An even worse midfield. Etc etc
I see excuses made this year like we have no midfield, even though it’s substantially better than last year (still not good enough). Costa is injured and we have no wingers, when he was injured most of last year too and so was Cuadrado (left off CL knockout lists because he was injured for the entire winter). Chiellini out injured, when he was injured for our most important CL matches last year too. If these weren’t acceptable excuses last year, I’m curious as to why they are this year?
I agree there is reason to be optimistic, as results-wise we have had a fantastic start, and I’m loving reborn and motivated Dybala and De Ligt was a monster signing... but there’s also reason for concern considering our overall anemic attack for the season thus far. Anyways, we’ll find out more about this team and its strength come February-March and the knockouts. I hope we make great strides by then, especially in attack.
I love Allegri, but this was one of the worst games I've ever seen in my life. I originally thought this was last season, but it was two seasons ago.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/matchstats?gameId=491352
https://www.espn.com/soccer/matchstats?gameId=491352
I love Allegri too, and admit that our play style has been very lackluster under Sarri for the most part, but to say that we didn’t have any performances under Allegri that were worse than this season is just pure nostalgia.