First of all, I want to compliment our players for working hard today, although we weren't lucky (plenty of chances, crossbar, not given penalty, etc.)
Next to that, I want to say that our weakest link on the pitch, was Rianieri.
He made a very bad mistake by taking off Del Piero, because he was our creative man in the first half. I think that every sober man could've realized that Sampdoria was going to defend untill the last minute. We didn't need a substitution at the half time break. If we were still having problems with scoring, we could've brought on Iaquinta and play a 4-3-3, or a 4-3-1-2 with Del Piero behind the strikers. I don't know if Palladino was brought on to play midfield, but Rianieri is being unrealistic if he says that Palladino could be Nedved's successor. The lad is just not a midfielder. He was quite good sometimes in Serie B last year, but that was because he was played at his own position.
In some way, I can understand that Birindelli was taken off because he was tired... but in fact, Almiron is nothing.