QUOTE (Fillipo Simone @ Jan 8 2023, 10:47 PM)
Pioli gave this away to be honest. His changes were completely off. We stopped playing and all he could come up with is putting in Gabbia as a 3rd defender (who then marked poorely on both occasions) and a few more midfielders who seems all but eager to keep Milan from building anything in attack.
Pioli lacked to balls to put in Lazetic or this other kid in. He wanted to play it safe and we deservedly got the punishmet.
I agree that the changes were all garbage, but he doesn't have much to work with and with how card happy the ref was I understand why he took off Benna. But the moment he came off our midfield dies. Bennacer is such a problem for us man. In a good way because he's so good, but we have no replacement for him and when he's not on the pitch we cannot control that midfield. Roma barely whimpered all game long, that is because they couldn't get a foot hold in that midfield and were instead trying to sit back, the moment he came off we started losing the battles. Pobega, goal aside is so limited, it's not even worth talking about anymore, but he cannot be the direct replacement for a player like Bennacer.
Why are we not going to the transfer market and solving these issues??
We've lost about 8 points this season that we should have easily gotten, but because of the constant injuries (don't get me started on the fitness department), we simple could not put teams away. Rotating absolutely kills us.
QUOTE (Fillipo Simone @ Jan 8 2023, 10:48 PM)
I honestly don't get why our management didn't sign a keeper as soon as January begun. Starting with Tata will cost us game after game.
Insane that we're still relying on him to start. He's got a mistake in him in every game, not to mention his reflexes look really slow and he seems almost reluctant to dive. This Maignan injury is the mystery to end all mysteries. How has a simple calf strain turned into a months long lay off??
2 goals off set-pieces. Once again, we cannot defend on them and the fact that the defenders do not trust Tata makes things even worse.
We need a Bennacer sub and someone to take over the goal keeping deputy role ASAP. And with games coming thick and fast it is negligent that we have not sorted this out already
One other thing. We played this game in 2nd gear. Everyone was too casual all game long. Rona were terrible but we cruised it. As soon as Roma woke up we couldn't seem to revive ourselves from the sleep mode setting we were seemingly in
Now back to 7 points behind Napoli. I'm going to say that our chances for the title are below 30% now... Which is sad because this was a prime occasion to get that 2nd star