Osvaldo red. After last week's actions by Lamela, the way we started this game (We lost the first 45 minutes due to his shit tactics) and Osvaldo's frustration, tell me, with your hand on your heart that LE hasn't lost the dressing room.
It is the same old story. We push high up trying to get a score. Other team counterattacks and scores a cheap goal when one of our centerbacks can't handle him. It is just a frustrating, confusing team.
A football match lasts 90 minutes. We weren't on the pitch for 45, we deserved this loss, Luis Enrique deserves it.
I don't see how either of those show he's lost the locker room. Lamela is a 19 year old immature kid who is playing in one of the most pressurized cities in the world. Osvaldo is just a hothead and is easily frustrated, be it from lack of service or the referees' decisions. Reminder that he was banned for punching Lamela because he was frustrated about not receiving a pass. I truly believe Osvaldo should be dumped this summer. I think his spin on hotheadedness is not the uplifting team spirit kind; he doesn't try to pick up his game and urge on the others, rather he berets the referee, storms angrily around on the pitch, etc. I also feel the team is better when Borini plays the central striker and we have two wingers flanking him in the mold of Bojan/Lamela/pick your attacking winger. I don't see Osvaldo taking to the bench well, and I'd rather see somebody like Tallo, Lopez, etc get more opportunity that Osvaldo sulk on the bench and have a shit attitude when he gets subbed on late in a game. We surely did play like shit in the first half. Second half the intensity was much higher, even before Totti's goal. From the response, I don't believe the locker room has yet been lost. Marqinho should be our LB for the rest of the season. God damn Angel is useless.
I think he has. The low shoulders on our players at the start of today's game shows it. Simply no one is saying it. More so, even if, as you say, he hasn't lost the dressing room, Luis Enrique has lost the people...
As of today's game, I'll disagree with losing the locker room. I believe some of the players aren't there, but I'm not sure how hard it was to lose them in the first place. Osvaldo in particular. Angel is just plain useless. Heinze, bless his heart, is making more and more errors and is less stable in the back than he was earlier in the season. Taddei, despite his effort, just doesn't have the legs any longer, and Rosi is not the answer. I actually don't see many players lost on this team, outside of Osvaldo. I'm not pinning everything on him as a scapegoat, but he just clearly stands out to me. The fact the intensity was brought up once useless Angel left the pitch means to me that the players haven't been lost by Enrique, but we have no margin for error (useless and impotent players) in the squad. Will LE lose the squad by the end of the season? I don't know, but I don't think he had lost it by the start of the second half. Has LE lost the fans? I guess so. I mean, we're obviously frustrated, but I certainly feel people are much too reactionary. If he comes out and starts winning next year the same people will be singing the praises of management for not listening to the emotional fans, seeing things through, etc.
At least Totti scored his goal and was denied the second...Now, even the EL is probably gone...The good thing is that Lazio is less likely to finish 3rd with Hernanes out for the rest of the season... My prediction: 1st Juve, 2nd Milan, 3rd Napoli, 4th Inter, 5th Lazio, 6th Roma, 7th Udinese
Things are different in Europe, you are expected to show results, especially in leagues like the EPL, La Liga and Serie A and even more in teams that are proud of their history like Roma. Any other ownership would have fired him a long time ago, and especially after the Lecce embarrassment. LE has broken a lot of our historic records, none of these records are positive.