[Fillipo Simone]

First match of the season, played against an old rival. Must win; let's hope to avoid last seasons horror start.

[han2503]

I don't understand you kurt, really, I don't

You say our players are overrated, fine, let's play it your way. And even in that case, they're STILL better then every player in that Verona side, NO question.

The problem here is the tactics behind the players, simple as. We're relying on Balo to do everything from the moment we get past the halfway line and he simply can't, SES is isolated, Niang is not even worth mentioning, what do you expect will happen when SES is literally in no man's land all game long and then we continually try to go through our right side EVERY TIME we attack and the ball goes to Niang who just put his head down and tries to dribble people and runs into walls.

That basically our entire game plan, pass sideways, backwards, pass sideways some more, pass to Abate and try to get something out of a cross or just plainly hit a long ball to Balo. And then to make things worse he made those subs which only made us worse, we only looked half decent in the last few minutes or so because Robinho cam on and he was willing to drop deep and pick up the ball.

It's just the same old sh!t we saw last season, and this has nothing to do with the players themselves. We have better players than basically every team in the league bar Juve and Napoli yet we still cannot win against a newly promoted side.