Defensively and tactically it was very good. The decision making and quality on the ball was pretty garbage though. Pjanic, Dybala especially guilty. They're the quality players but didn't do enough.
Douglas Costa's defensive effort is really impressing me, he's not just lolzilianing around like I thought he might. Obviously he has blistering pace and directness but in this sort of game you have to do the shitty stuff typical wingers don't like.
MDS's weakness was glaringly obvious on that one Insigne effort, he falls asleep from time to time. Difficult to play at a really high level when you do that, so he has to learn quickly.
We could have done with Mandzukic second half to hold territory further away from our half, but really it's like the players tried to turn it into a defensive exercise. Very dangerous doing that against Napoli but really they looked like the mentally weak team we know and love for a lot of that game. I hope and suspect that starts to put the doubts back into their minds.
Pitch looked shit as well.
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