To be beaten by Inter is no disgrace but to be outplayed by Inter, surely takes some doing
We have now played Inter, Milan, Roma and Lazio 10 times this season , if u include the coppa matches and have lost 6 times and drawn the other 4 against the best teams in Italy.
This is not a new phenomenon as under Lippi , we tend to lose to the big guys and beat the little guys and that has led to scudetto triumphs over the years , aided and abetted by the big teams shooting themselves in the foot
Lets be perfectly honest, Inter gift-wrapped our first scudetto in Lippi's comeback while last season Milan just imploded and so we kind of ran away with the league with performances not that dissimilar with what we are going thru now, the difference being the match winners of last season are either off form or injured and Milan and to a lesser extent Roma, 2 vastly superior sides, have refused to mess up this time around.
You can shout and scream all you like but you cannot have it both ways, Moggi cannot be buying second hand material and hoping every year to turn them into first class stuff
The much maligned Dp and Nedved cannot carry the team every year and this year has proved how much they have done in the past to make ordinary players look decent
They have not performed at all well this season and the wastes of space who have been riding on their coat tails have not been able to step up in class to do anything
Dv is hiding under the ludicrous notion that Dp came back from injury to steal his thunder, MIccolli probably thinks the same thing but when they have been asked to start, they have done absolutlely nothing
Trez who gets more stick than anyone has managed to outscore Dv even if he has played so much less
Look at Tomasson, he hardly plays when Inzaghi and Sheva are fit but he has scored his fair share of goals
The midfield, only an ass would pair Appiah with Tacchinardi and then put that complete waste of money Tudor alongside them
The defence needs no comments from me
If you are gonna persevere with these players then you need some world class players to carry them and make them look good
If you are gonna continue to play Tacchinardi then a very strong and good player of world class ability has to play beside him
A Playmaker is a must, the defence needs to be totally revamped with noone spared in the middle of the defence
Leggrotaglie did some good things but you just feel he is an error waiting to happen and he did that again last nite
Montero is now a complete caricature and it would be sad if this is the memory we have of him
Tudor should be got rid of as how many times was he caught just standing ball watching then putting up his hands for offside which was not existent
Appiah , well has been thrown into the deep end and seems out of his depth, still baffled how he cannot pass the ball properly and for someone with such a powerful build, seems to be easily brushed off the ball
Tacchinardi was awful again yesterday and he has become the invisible man yet again, although been paired with Tudor does not help
Trez not sure he touched the ball in the second half at all
Miccolli the great hype, all buzz buzz, but no genuine play and it maybe unfair due to his lack of opportunities but thus far he has nothing on Cassano and definitely not as good as a player I rate higher than all of them and thats Di Natalie
With all the stupid injuries, maybe its time the training methods have to be revised and instead of concentrating on stamina, maybe they should start training on how to pass to each other nad have a pattern of play