capello never ceases to amaze and astound me.
I have no idea why Dp who looked like he had problems with his thigh against Livorno last week during the early part of the game and seemed to be playing within himself in that game, aparently did not train with the rest of the squad leading up 2 this game, is started when we have an important game against Arsenal on tuesday.
Capello, knowing him , his plan was play Zlatan for the first 45 and then introduce Trez for Zlatan and let Dp play for 90 mins and be dropped to the bench against Arsenal so his favoured attack can start at highbury but it has blown up in his face , has it not?
Dp should never have started or indeed probably not have played at all as muscular problems are bothersome and we would have gone into the game against Arsenal with all 3 main strikers , but now we have Nedved and Dp out and have to rely on an out of form Zlatan.
Why does Trez need a rest, he wants to be top goal scorer in serieA, he hardly moves a lot and does not look jaded and scored 2 goals last week and the last thing he needed was to be benched as he would have prefered to keep the momentum going
The match , well it been covered so no need for me to go in to too much details , i will just say a few things
Shame on you , Nedved, that was idiotic and not only did it cost your team 2 points, it might have taken some energy out of them for tuesday against an Arsenal side which did not play over the weekend and you are not even gonna play their as well cos of another indiscretion on your part
Zlatan was not good, and thats an honest opinion, a lone striker should be able to hold up the ball better and he couldnt. Emerson was alright as was most of the other players
How many people will say hand on heart if they had Balzaretti and Chiellini in the same team will play Balzaretti behind Chiellini? Thats another wonder of capello
I mean the substitution was baffling
Spalletti actually took off Kuffour for a 16 year old striker in Okaka, no way would Capello do that even if his team is 10-0 up.
Chiellini as an attacking midfielder? Isnt that some sort of oxymoron?
You gotta hand it to Capello though, he sure knows how to organise a side defensively but his tactical acumen in the attacking sense is limited.
Mutu coming on for the last 3 minutes was because of......?
Answers on a post card please
Wouldnt Zambrotta have done a better job as an attacking mifielder if we wanted to be so cautious as not to bring on Mutu?
Roma's bubble has burst and anyone can see that, yes they can win some matches without Totti but no way can they go 3 months without him so lets stop heaping praise like we drew against a really top side with 10 men, they had too many youngsters out there like Alvarez, Kharja, okaka, Aquilani, Rossi Bovo and Doni the goal keeper
They were without Totti, Montella, De Rossi and Chivu
who was the more annoying yesterday in theri constant going to the ground, dacourt or Chielinni
Man of the match , by a long way , with no one to contend with him at all was mexes, simply superb