[han2503]

We beat them in the Coppa but we must get the 3 points tomorrow. We haven't beaten them in the league in a while so this would be the time to do it. Juve play Parma today and I can't see them losing points in that one.

[vnata001]

Be interesting to see the opinions on here when we get rid of Max and we are barely qualifying for the CL, forget winning the title.

umm. i could just as easily say: imagine the opinions on here when we fire max, hire someone more competent, and don't drop points like we did today.

despite our injury crisis, we had enough talent on our available roster to beat lazio. we have more talent than them, in every department. the fact that we instead got beaten 2-0 says something.

fillipo is right. ive never once felt that allegri has fielded our strongest possible side.

This post has been edited by vnata001: Feb 2 2012, 11:21 AM

[kurtsimonw]

umm. i could just as easily say: imagine the opinions on here when we fire max, hire someone more competent, and don't drop points like we did today.

And who's going to be able to do better than Max on a small budget?

[vnata001]

And who's going to be able to do better than Max on a small budget?

i understand that the budget is an issue for galliani. however, despite the occasional unsavory signing (of the mancini/muntari/emerson variety) I think galliani has done a damn decent job of putting a team together for allegri that I believe does have enough quality to beat everyone that we've lost to this season, despite our budget constraints. On paper, we are very good. That said, it's on Max to use what he's got to get us those important results.

As i said in my previous rant about the 3DMs, and as Fillipo pointed out (about how rarely does it seem like we've fielded our best possible side/tactical set up), Allegri doesn't maximize the potential of the quality he has at his disposal.

I supposed I too agree with those that like Spaletti. The guy created a well balanced Roma side with even tighter budgetary constraints. A Roma side that toppled a far more talented Real Madrid side. His side overachieved. Allegri's underachieves given the amount of quality we have currently. I'll give him credit, he returned some form of defensive balance to a team that was COMPLETELY imbalanced under Leonardo (though Leo had WAY less talent to work with, and frankly did well to finish third I thought). Despite our current injuries, we shouldve beaten Lazio. And when we had a full strength side, we shouldn't have lost to Napoli 3-0, Juve 2-0, and Inter 1-0. That's core of my gripe against him.

[kurtsimonw]

I think galliani has done a damn decent job of putting a team together for allegri that I believe does have enough quality to beat everyone that we've lost to this season

This is football though. It doesn't matter how good your team is, chances are you aren't going to go unbeaten or anything. It's not like we've lost to bad teams either, when you couple that with the fact we've had big injuries issues in some of those defeats, I hardly think it's a disaster. Juve are better than us, so I see no issue with losing to them, they have a better squad, in my opinion. They have depth that we look (even moreso with our injuries). To make out the Inter defeat was his fault is a little ridiculous I think. We dominated the game and someone made a mistake, a coach can do little to nothing about that.

If football was as predictable as you seem to make it out to be, then we may as well not bother playing games and decide the final standings on who has the best team on paper.

This post has been edited by kurtsimonw: Feb 3 2012, 02:48 AM