We're tired now, plenty of heavy legs out there yet this moron is going to make a sub at 80' or 85'.

They're passing it around the defence instead of putting pressure on them

We're looking a bit half-arsed now after those three goals. C'mon, need to win this!

YEPESSSSSSSSSSS


GOALLLLLL

Yepes!!!!!

Yepes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We've certainly done it the hard way!!!!

How hard ??


Yessss !!!

Best. GAME. EVARRRRRRR

But..., but..., but... we don't have the team to win the Serie A

Milan were 20/1 for the win earlier! Now Lecce are 80/1!!!!!

El Shaarawy to come on

El Shaa coming on

Very hard when you have a manager that doesn't start with his best team...

we just Liverpooled Lecce. Problem?

Allegri must be very happy to have it this hard

El Shaa for Cassano

3 minutes til one of our best comebacks in years.

I thought it was one of the worst games ever ?

Exactly.

1st half was terrible, 2nd half was great!

FT!!!!!

I thought right then

Boateng getting clobbered by the whole team

The first half was a wake up call for us...Boateng is amazing!

It's official, Boateng is a must start. That's 4 goals in 2 games by my calculations.

Quite incredible comeback - the phrase 'game of 2 halves' was never more accurate today.

wow. what a game. it really is sad that galliani had to call (most likely) our coach to make game changes.

Actually, this will be a very important lesson to him. I don't think he'll ever try to field three DMs anymore.

Just want to say that KPB has scored waaay too many goals like the second of late to be a fluke. He will be a MONSTER played in the right position i.e. an attacking CM, entering the box late.

I feel really dumb for calling him mediocre now... I was WRONG. However he still is very unrefined in terms of passing and movements and he's not much of an orchestrator in attack. At his age he still has time and with that shot his potential is exciting

What a game. Still can't believe we actually did it.

I'm off to watch the Manc derby.

we'll see about that... i have a feeling we'll be seeing it again sometime soon.

KPB

We have Istanbul, Lecce will have this game

I really hope Allegri learned his lesson. And the fucking ref was awful, that penalty dive was so blunt...

Oh forgot to say....Antonini?? srsly??

Agreed. But imo, the problem was mostly Ambro's presence. Having 3 DMs is just not good reason enough for the way Nocerino and VB were playing, especially VB, who seemed uncomfortable with Ambro next to him. Both players who seems to occupy the same position.

Boateng made the biggest change, but the problem in the first half was thay we were completely reliant on Robs to move the ball to our strikers, it was just too easy for Lecce to crowd Robinho out since no one was moving up to help him.

Second half you had both Boateng and Aqui making runs, and practically making it a 4 man attack. Aqui wasn't apparent and obvious as Boateng because he doesn't produce that energy or really get stuck in the way Boateng does, but his support was a big reason as to why we turned things around. Some of his cross-field passes to Cassano were amazing, as wll as his assist to Boateng for the first goal.

Cassano got 2 assists btw. He's probably 1st on the assist charts at this point

Boateng is starting to remind me of Lampard, in terms of style, just running in and shooting at will. His passing and vision is still off from what it can be, but as you said, he has a lot of time to improve. I remember seeing him in the World Cup in Africa before we signed him, he was good then, but his improvement during the course of last season and this one has been stratospheric


Yep... Typical Allegri. Still imo, Ambro was the problem there. Him and VB just don't mesh.


Yep, what a couple of mistakes he made. Taiwo or Zambro should be first choice, I don't get how Antonini has gotten back into reckoning, he's never done anything of note. Allegri should go back to ignoring him like he did last season. he's a disaster waiting to happen. What a mess up today on the 3rd goal, just ridiculous

Next match I want to see a Abate-Mexes-Silva-Taiwo defense. Hear me, Allegri!

"Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion!" Rudy Tomjanovich.

Yeah Nesta needs a rest while I don't even want to hear of Antonini. Nesta was doing the work of 3 today in the 1st half before Yepes finally woke up.

Next matchday we have Parma, while Udine play Napoli and Juve play Fiorentina. It could be a real chance for us to get into the top 2 - 3 of the table

"The substitutions were the only way to change the game,” assured Allegri.


no no allegri you should've kept going with the same team..

FFS i missed it damn

How about starting them from the beginning Allegri? Or is that to obvious of a solution for you?

game of the season so far despite the idiocy of our coach and referee..

Next match I don't want to see Ambrosini.

In fact I don't ever want to see him in the starting line up anymore.

Nocerino, Aquilani & Van Bommel - every game unless fitness should not permit this!

I'm pretty sure he was speaking with Berlusconi or someone else.

He was seen on the phone after every goal, so clearly he was updating someone.

This

he was on the phone after every goal cause he was appauled that ambro was still playing..

The big problem is, I actually ain't sure about it. You see, every time he makes a step forward, he makes two or three back. The Palermo game went down excellent, we had 2 wins in a row and 0 goals conceded. Yet once again he decided to temper with the squad and look what happened.

IMO he's simply learning to slow. In the end, that will burn him out.

He was probably talking with his people about the referee decisions. I think there was a foul on Antonini in Lecce's third goal as well.

Reading this thread from start to finish was amusing as hell.

Just sayin'

I know so many jokers saying how bad a team we are in general at HT, and turning on their side just like that, it's laughable.

Modern fans for you.

Agreed. I think for the title we're pretty much set. I'm not going to say we're winning it 100% but we do have the strongest squad in Serie A. It's the way Allegri utilises said team that's what worries me. He's just clueless at times. I mean what was the whole strategy in the beginning to start with that midfield. Antonini as well on the left when Taiwo stormed it on Wednesday. Just ridiculous

I still stand by the fact that there were two pathetic teams playing today. You can't let in 3 goals in a match (let alone a half) and say you have a good team. Any half decent team on a bad day shouldn't let in 3 goals. And well then, Lecce upped it up a notch by letting in 4. Regardless of the comeback, the fact remains that we have problems.

Whenever I see a team letting in more than 2 goals, that automatically means there's something wrong.