[Zed.D]

(IMG:http://tinypic.info/files/qhd668scb8dl1npyzckn.png) Torino FC vs. AC Milan (IMG:http://tinypic.info/files/8r7c9y3dqeb7ngh5x0dw.png)

After seeing Milan over the past month it seems every game is going to be a tough one for us. hopefully Pirlo's return will make us play better football. hopefully a different tactic will see us do better up front. hopefully...

[mishie]

Sure we had a lot of possession against Inter but at the end of the day we won it because of an offside goal and because Adriano is good for nothing and doesn't recongnise the net from his @ss.

I criticise him because he has a squad full of world class players at his disposal and he is not using it to his advantage. Non of the games we won so far are because of good tactics or the fact that we played well. All were basically achieved thanks to bad ref calls or strange luck. Can't understand how you call this an achievment. I think it's the refs that you should be meriting them to not Carlo. And hopefully he won't remain the coach for much longer. He talks about being like Fergie when in reality he could never be like him because he doesn't know how to let go of a past team and structure a new one. He has his favourites and his formations and he sticks by them no matter what. That's why we were so terrible last season and the one before that, that's why we are playing on Thursday nights this season instead of Wed/Tue.

Yes Milan squeezed through Chievo, we created a handful of chances that aren't really even worthy of being mentiones. Yes we controlled possession but most of it was useles and in the center of the pitch, and what do you really expect against a team like Chievo? who let's honest here, are woeful at best. And even they manged to put us under pressure and could have scored because we couldn't manage to score a goal against them without the ref's help. We didn't have to try to close the game up from the 30th minute mark, it's a classic Carlo tactic and if Chievo scored (which they came close to) we would have lost points because of him.

The attack isn't meeting it's potential because of the tactics Carlo uses, it's too congested, always trying to go through the same way, of course a team will manage to close us up easily we're too predictable and it becaomes easy for them to anticipate what we're going to do before we even do it.

I'm not telling you how you should feel, if you are not worried then good for you, but I also remember you saying that you weren't worried last season also and look where we ended up... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I'm just saying right now we may be lucky and still getting the points somehow but this kind of luck won't last long, we are a big club with world class players, we should rely on our own talents not on luck.

how can possession in any area of the pitch be useless!?!?!
any coach will tell you possession is everything sometimes going forward to come back and start again or just playing the ball around in the middle may seem pointless but it may be possible (and very likely) that they are working the opposition trying to move them around looking for spaces...as for these ref decisions don't they all favour the big clubs us,juve inter etc same in all leagues we should take that as the norm? i ust find it hard to comprehend that for all the apparant poor form we still sit 1 point off the top of the table and the best is yet to come! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)