Another great save by Abbiati. Gotta do better against their heading attempts.

Poli... Should have at least directed that toward goal

Really wish Bona was in that midfield

WTF was Essien doing there??

Why the f@ck are they letting 100 year old Toni dribble them in slow motion FFS??

Muntari bumbling around midfield. Runs into El Shaarawy and then immediately gives the ball away.

Rami and Muntari have been crap.

I hate him as much as the next person here, but that was Essien

Essien is incredibly slow.

The front 3 have basically been our midfield, Honda, SES and Torres have been basically doing it all and by-passing our inept midfield, winning the ball and creating the plays all on their own

Was it? My bad. I'm going to blame that on stream quality haha.

Decent first half. We let Verona attack too much in the last 15-20 minutes, but otherwise we weren't as bad as I thought we'd be. We must thank Abbiati with two super saves, as well as Verona's defender with that ridiculous own goal.

Yeah it was.

HT

Decent first half but that midfield is seriously making what should be a straight forward game into a constant battle to try and keep that clean sheet, I thought Essien was doing good in the first 30 minutes or so, but he's so slow. Poli is doing his usual thing, ok but still not what we need from someone who's our only link to the attack in midfield

Muntari his usual self bumbling around, losing the ball and trying to make terrible passes that never come off

Hoping Pippo brings Jack in for one of the dynamic duo in the second half, we need to kill this off ASAP because I can't see us keeping a clean sheet and we can't afford to let them in it again as Verona are not a side that will go down meekly.

livescore.com says Torres scored whereas you guys are saying Honda?

Yes, well, let's not over-Muntari ourselves, shall we? Because all in all this was a decent first half. Good play by Honda, Torres, Abate, Poli and Abbiati especially. I only expect SES to step up finally - and the second half could give him more space for a speedy attack.

Definitely Honda.

Awesome. How many is that for him so far this season?

Solid first half. The midfield is so unstable though. Way too many give aways and no creativity. I think El Shaarawy and Torres would be better served by some one able to give a decent pass. Abate has looked dangerous with his crosses.

Decent first half, but the result is a tad "generous". Abbiati had some great saves ...

The commentator said five. Damn impressive by Honda.

Him and Essien have been easily our worst players out there, how can we not mention them? This thing with Muntari is so ridiculous on this forum, why the sudden need to not even talk about how really terrible he is when we see it in our faces each week?

He was bad, and that is a fact, saying we should not over-Muntari things is ridiculous imo just because 1 or 2 people always find a way to defend him and it becomes a debate we shouldn't say anything about him ruining our game?


5 and 2 assists as well

I don't mean this as gloating(as I have no reason to). Just an honest question. How do you feel about Honda now Kurt seeing as you believed him to be mediocre at best?

HONDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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HONDA!!! Great shot. What a pass though!! Was that Rami?

What a pass from Rami.

Honda...so clinical tonight, amazing pass from Rami!

lol, what a goal that would have been from Torres

Could have had a hat-trick just now

Essien is so f@cking slow when he receives the ball and has to get it out from under his feet

Say what you want about SES but he's been great today, he only needs that goal to relax a bit more

Great save Abbiati

We should not be letting them press us so far back, just keep the clean sheet and score another if you can

Bad give away by Torres. Great block by Alex.

Need to make some changes now.

Essien is such a shadow of his former greatness. He has been slow and awful.

OK, we're playing like sh*t now.

We switched to neutral as soon as we scored the 3rd

Exactly.

lol, Bonera for Honda!

WTF? Are we trying to gift them a consolation goal?

What the hell??

Trifecta of class on the pitch Muntari>Essien>Bonera

Pippo's subs are way too conservative.

OMG Bonera!

HAHA!!

Predicted it!!!

1-3

And, that's exactly what happens.

Lovely attempted block Muntari

And here it comes. Expected. We've been invisible for the last 20 minutes.

Should be 3-2 now.

Completely falling apart in defence and midfield, shocking considering the personnel we have out there

Inzaghi clearly doesn't ascribe to the notion that a good midfield can control the match. You don't need 10 defenders...

We almost conceded again..

Nene puts it over the bar from 2 yards out. Should be 3-2. This is what happens when you sit back and make **** subs.

Should have been 2-3.

Wtf was Pippo thinking with those changes...