I dont know about optimistic... sometimes I get the feeling Allegri sends out his players without any plan of attack, it's like he tells them to go do their thing but putting defensive duties as their primary duty. One thing i noticed about yesterday's game was our press, it was pretty awful compared to inter's given that we had Matuidi and Mandzukic doing most of the pressing, with inter they pressed as a unit, against our 'press' it was easy for inter to pick pockets of space in their own half to play out from.