I think our biggest problem right now is poor fitness and the players not being physically ready. Even players like Dusan and Koop being out of form probably has something to do with that. Now that we press more under Tudor and the team’s playing a more intense, high-energy style, the lack of fitness is way more obvious. In both games, it’s been clear the players ran out of energy in the second half. It honestly feels like the players are only fit enough to play at a high level for about 30 minutes and after that, the drop-off is huge. I don’t know what Motta and his staff did exactly, but this team looks like it’s playing its first pre-season games.
When all you do in training is stretch. Pass and have a kick about, I dont think you can expect fitness levels to increase, especially when we play once a week.
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I think you are being unfair there on Ranieri. This to me is very very average side in terms of players. Dybala is probably their only WC player if he is in form or not injured. Ranieri has done a really god job there imo when looking at it from neutral point of view.
No hats off to him for getting the results. Not so much how it's done, especially tonight. They showed too much organised respect, type of football that used to make us cringe. I was expecting better from his team, considering their form. Only way we can get results is when teams come out at us, today was another example of how weve stalled when the opposition park the bus, even if it's the in form Roma.
This is symptoms of Mottaball, I dont expect everything to change overnight for Tudor, but frustrating nevertheless. On paper it's a decent result but I think it was there for the taking, though there was only one team trying to go for three points.