[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]

I respect that but at some point you have to just say, stop that and actually play some football, I'm ok with possession that will eventually lead to something, but to see us passing it around in the midfield and sometimes even going back to the defence and when they pass themselves into a corner they just punt the ball up is imo, wasting time that could see us scoring a goal to kill the game.

Last week against Lecce I think if you add it up atleast 30 minutes of the match was wasted passing the ball arounf between the defence and midfield, and at this point we needed a goal. I even commented about it during the game, I would go through the thread to find it but I don't really feel like it ( (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) ) I voiced my frustrations at the fact that we were passing the ball around in the defence like we were winning 3-0 instead of still drawing.

well i won't believe you unless you do ((IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) )
As for the Lecce game i think 1 lapse of concentration was what lost us the game not the passing/possession football i can see why people get frustrated with it as rightly or wrongly like to see a attack on the end of the passing but after all it was Lecce (merda!) and we should have passed them off the park (and did) with a cutting edge...for me its time to play 2 strikers but that doesn't mean abandoning are passing principles;)

[han2503]

well i won't believe you unless you do ((IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) )
As for the Lecce game i think 1 lapse of concentration was what lost us the game not the passing/possession football i can see why people get frustrated with it as rightly or wrongly like to see a attack on the end of the passing but after all it was Lecce (merda!) and we should have passed them off the park (and did) with a cutting edge...for me its time to play 2 strikers but that doesn't mean abandoning are passing principles;)

I didn't see any cutting edge to our passing at either Lecce or today. It was passing without any point behind it. In the past under Carlo we could pass the best of them off the park (and I'm talking about the Man Us and Barcas, not Lecce and Chievo) now we try to keep possession like we're so afraid to try to attack because we might lose the ball. There's a difference between playing possession football with a motive behind it (your style of playing) and trying to keep the ball because you're afraid to lose it. If we can pass Lecce off the park then why didn't we do it? Thier goal is not the point. The point is with all the possession we had we didn't manage to turn it into goals, it took a solo run and a cross from Pato to break the deadlock not a team move after passing Lecce off the park ;p