I don't think anyone here has said otherwise?
Sometimes we are going to lose games whilst not playing well at all. It's a long season.
I kinda expected us to lose (or at best, draw) this one. All the ingredients were there for a loss. A fired up Inter at San Siro coming off a humiliating defeat mid-week, our weird starting lineup and formation, our frustrating performance against Sevilla weighing on the team...and we were simply due a loss against these guys in Serie A - first loss at San Siro against Inter since 2010.
Fwiw, I was much more $#@!ty with our draw against Sevilla than I was with this loss. We simply can't afford to $#@! up our home group games in the CL against inferior opponents. Evidently, there's still a mental block that is seemingly insurmountable for this team when competing in Europe.
Me too. The main difference here was the drive IMO. Inter was drooling to play the game, and it was just another game for us. They absolutely wanted it more and outworked Juve.
But also, Inter has a good team. It's just a matter of time until they mesh. They have a very weak spot on their fullbacks, but that aside, they've improved immensely with the new players signed the last 2 offseasons. They have a respectable team that could very well beat us in a game, under the right conditions, as it happened.
IMO one of Allegri's mistakes was playing Asamoah after his horrid match vs Sevilla. Lemina should have played.
But the decisive mistake from Allegri was poor game planning. We needed to give the ball to Inter and play on counters, with Higuain. Their pressure was too big for our defensive players to go ball playing from behind, and that's the reason Pjanic played as regista, compromising our defense and damaging his offense production.
A midfield with Lemina as a DM, Pjanic and Khedira as CMs and the team giving the ball away to Inter, only to hurt them in counters, would have been the best decision.
Actually, that should be the strategy in Europe. Press the shit out of the opposing team when they have the ball, and when they are pressing us near Buffon, just do not overtry to go ball playing. Send it away, press them, defend well (and for that a DM like Lemina who has physicality to cover is fundamental) and go hunt on counters.
But yes, it was a losable game. It's not like Allegri lost the game by himself. Different from the game vs Sevilla, where I put 100% of responsibility over him for that shitty draw.
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