I feel Ciro deserves some blame here for this result. After decent first half performance, we lost the momentum in the second half. It got worse with the subs. We where already playing with 9 and half men since Amauri and Molinaro where poor.
Then Gio enters, i have gave him a lot of time, but i am sorry if it hearts, but with Gio coming on we lost the half men we had.
Amauri, Gio, Molinaro didnt do anything today. 3 players from 11 not doing anything results in the outcome.
Bologna kept pushing, and since there was no Diego it was easier for them. Let me remind you that Diego was being man marked. On comes Gio and well as we can see his not really a player you need to man mark. Defenders easily challenge all the balls in the air for him.
So i am sorry, but Giovinco isnt Diego backup. Looking at this, its clear that Gio should be developed into somekind of left sided trickery winger or smth like that.
Add to that there was no partnership between Amauri and Trez, it felt as if the roles had changed. Trez was doing it all, Amauri was vanished.
DP should have entered earlier. We lost the momentum, Gio coming on for Diego, things got even worse. Ciro should have brought on DP A LOT earlier, since Amauri was having no impact. DP-Trez would have liven up our attack again.
Eventually when DP game it was too late. And the team was almost desperate to somehow hold on.
Melo might have done the mistake but trust me, it was almost bound to happen. I wont blame Melo much, since AFTER THE SUBS or Gio for Diego, i felt Melo was the only midfielder with some defensive contribution. Marchisio has had better games. maybe felt a bit tired.
But what eventually cost, as we all kept saying in the live thread, was Molinaro. That was a situation what a decent defender would have avoided.
I mean isnt the fact that some average striker scores with Buffon in goal and a defender in front of you enough to say how bad Moli really can be. Put Canna in there in that situation and we might have won.