Another 2 points thrown away.
We could have scored 4 or 5 goals if you look at the game but as soon as that shit-for-brains gave them the free goal chance it creates panic and desperation. At least we showed more urgency, but it's easy doing that chasing a game. It doesn't matter who the coach is, we will always be that nonchalant team who does this in these fixtures.
Ifs and buts, if our goal stands or one off the bar goes in we win the game by a couple etc, but chasing against a team who like to defend always creates problems.
Thought the ref was the total garbage kind who likes to even things up between a big team and smaller team, you see these in struggling games with a "plucky underdog", and the lack of home fans exacerbates this as there is no crowd pressure, the home team gets frustrated and gets in his ear and it becomes negative, etc. But you can't say he was a decisive factor, he was just shit and let Verona take the piss out of him at times. Nothing kind of ref who tries to avoid all controversies or difficult decisions.
We seem to be trying lots of news things all at once, every new game is something different. I don't think this helps. Dybala had to play today and he went from awful to average, but it's a case of suffering short term to gain longer term. Playing Bernardeschi is another example. Then Ronaldo, De Ligt etc come back and we change again, more settling-in and lack of cohesion.
I think we all knew there would be a settling-in period and some rough times but I'd definitely have liked more points on the board. The games with reds you can excuse but this was a real waste tonight. Literally nothing seemed to go our way.
Oh, and another injury. Oh well, Barcelona next lol.
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