Maurizio Sarri (66 Viewers)

Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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Our goal today from a beautiful long ball to Ronaldo. And our great chance by Higuain at the death from a Cuadrado cross.

Fuck off with these limited narrow tactics. Adapt and use all the team's strengths. We have players like Ronaldo and Higgy who can feast on long balls and good crosses. We can still use short quick, triangles and narrow, ball to the feet play, but incorporate other tactics in attack.

Adapt. This team has potential to be unstoppable, but it won't ever reach its attacking potential by limiting things to a specific narrow set of tactics.
 

Boksic

Senior Member
May 11, 2005
14,300
He'll be happy his beloved Napoli got the result, worst performance of the season.

We finally looked to be making some progress with the 4-3-1-2 then he obliterates it and plays a system where we are at walking pace. This Napoli team is poor and we didn't bother to put them under any pressure. When we did, we scored.

He also needs to learn that it is not essential to sub Dybala every match, he is one of the few who got no minutes in midweek.
 

Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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@Snobist

Lots of positives going forward from our last few matches, I don't think we need to be doom and gloom just because of this match, but you can understand now why some worry that we aren't playing to the strengths of this team in attack, and it will come back to bite us in tougher matches?

He needs to stop talking about how he dislikes long balls and crossing tactics, and actually incorporate these things into our tactics as with Ronaldo, Higuain, Bonucci, Cuadrado, Costa, etc etc we have a team that can make use of such tactics very well. We can still focus mostly on playing through the middle, and his quick, short passing game to create chances, but these other things need to be added into our attack to make us less predictable, and less easy to stop by team's with good defenders who stack the middle. Instead today, we saw nothing useful to the last 4 minutes of the match, when desperate long balls and crosses showed up and it almost saved a result. Too little, too late though.
 
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Karim30

Allegri is back, life is back.
May 6, 2012
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This is all on Sarri for the following reasons:
1-He didn’t rotate enough against Roma so we were physically inferior to a predictably fired up Napoli side playing the game like their life depended on it.
2-Rabiot and Pjanic should’ve rested against Roma and he had to take off Ronaldo and Higuain after 60-65 minutes of this game.
3-Returning to the san paolo took a toll on him mentally, and his overthinking lead to many disasters and he should be more mentally solid if he wants to succeed with a team of our stature (learn from Higuain).
4-He got it wrong with the starting 11, he should’ve (in retrospect after seeing how Napoli parked the bus) played 4312 with Ramsey replacing Higuain and Rabiot replacing crippled incompetent good for nothing talentless Matuidi.
5-After Napoli’s goal he should’ve taken off Matuidi for Costa and play 4213, and after a while put Ramsey not Bernardeschi ffs in place of exhausted Higuain not Dybala who can do magic any second.

We are extremely lucky it’s a slap on the face we can afford after Inter’s usual chocking but Sarri needs to wake the fuck up.
 

X Æ A-12

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Sep 4, 2006
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Its not his fault really. Nothing in his career should have inspired anyone to think hiring him, without setting up a squad for him, was a good idea.

He's just a mediocre bum who got an offer way above his level. hard to blame him for jumping at the chance.
 

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
116,007
This is all on Sarri for the following reasons:
1-He didn’t rotate enough against Roma so we were physically inferior to a predictably fired up Napoli side playing the game like their life depended on it.
2-Rabiot and Pjanic should’ve rested against Roma and he had to take off Ronaldo and Higuain after 60-65 minutes of this game.
3-Returning to the san paolo took a toll on him mentally, and his overthinking lead to many disasters and he should be more mentally solid if he wants to succeed with a team of our stature (learn from Higuain).
3-He got it wrong with the starting 11, he should’ve (in retrospect after seeing how Napoli parked the bus) played 4312 with Ramsey replacing Higuain and Rabiot replacing crippled incompetent good for nothing talentless Matuidi.
4-After Napoli’s goal he should’ve taken off Matuidi for Costa and play 4213, and after a while put Ramsey not Bernardeschi ffs in place of exhausted Higuain not Dybala who can do magic any second.

We are extremely lucky it’s a slap on the face we can afford after Inter’s usual chocking but Sarri needs to wake the fuck up.
Sounds like 3D Chess.
 

juve123

Senior Member
Aug 10, 2017
16,651
“Sarri is a manager with his own ideas and he doesn't move from them much.
He has an idea of how he wants to play and the football that he really wants to play.
He doesn't move from it. No matter what you tell him, no matter what you advise him, no matter what your opinion is, he will never change.(Fabregas)
 

Vlad

In Allegri We Trust
May 23, 2011
24,028
“Sarri is a manager with his own ideas and he doesn't move from them much.
He has an idea of how he wants to play and the football that he really wants to play.
He doesn't move from it. No matter what you tell him, no matter what you advise him, no matter what your opinion is, he will never change.(Fabregas)
Tnx, this really helped me to put this defeat behind and look forward at more of the same approach/tactics...
 

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