I'm behind him. The sooking on here is good for a laugh.
The issue is that Sarri is always judged against a decade of unparalleled Juve success and an unreasonable expectation that he will deliver the same style of football to Juve that he did at Napoli. It's silly to trash him after he's kept us undefeated till now, tracking to top the CL group and two points from the top of the league.
1. When this group needs to step up for a big game, it always does. Gives me hope for the CL especially.
2. We've seen notable improvements from important (mostly match winning) players - Dybala, Higuain, Bentancur, Pjanic, Alex Sandro, Khedira. De Ligt is developing as we hoped. The only players that haven't improved are ones that we all already knew were bad or have been injured.
3. This is by far the most competitive league for the last 10 years.
4. He's worked around the injuries as best as could be expected. It's difficult to implement that fluid game style without the certainty of a healthier squad.
5. This team's best is better under Sarri. Having those core players firing makes all the difference. The group can impose itself in a way that it couldn't in the past.
6. This team's worst is worse under Sarri. Under Allegri we could be bad but irritatingly compact. Sarri is rightly insisting upon a certain attitude but when the team is switched off we pay a bigger price than we did under Allegri.
Either way, you'd have to be stupid to be unhappy with where this side is at in the circumstances it's in. We were unlucky tonight, plain and simple. The signs that we can compete at a winning standard are definitely there. We need more time and a little bit of luck. Mark these words.