@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.