QUOTE (KillerMax @ Sep 23 2013, 06:16 PM)
I agree. I was surprised that we even put Napoli under so much pressure. I think they may have been a bit too cautious about us. Teams like Verona and Torini made us look amateurish, yet we looked somewhat decent against Napoli bar the first 10 minutes or so. Admittedly I didn't watch after Napoli's second. Just turned it off.
We were better than them, simply because they play an open game where someone like Balo is free to do anything he wants.
Had we had our squad fully fit we would have most likely won it.
But this does not mask our main issues. First and foremost, we cannot defend a set-piece to save our lives, we look like idiots against teams who park the bus and hit us on the counter. We simply have no game plan. Against Napoli the lack of game plan didn't really matter because of the aforementioned space allowed to us, especially someone like Balo who was doing whatever he wanted when he got into certain areas and could have easily scored 3 goals, even without that penalty. But against teams who will simply defend against us we have no answer. No idea about how to break them down. Not to mention that we let them clean through on break-aways multiple times in each match, thus having conceded 2 goals per game so far aside from the Cagliari match