I think it was the goal in stoppage time. Losing 3-2 was fine, not ideal when you lead 2-1 at one point, but fine. Shipping that goal, especially when we dared Lacazette to pick his spot, in the final minutes changed the complexion of the tie. Lyon can't defend worth a damn, so maybe it's not a huge change to how we would've approach the second leg tactically, but the ball is firmly in our court now.
The 4th goal annoyed me greatly. At that stage of the game we really should have gone on all out to protect the one goal deficit. Losing 3-2 away to Lyon in a 1st leg tie in which you've been thoroughly outplayed in the 2nd half would have been absolutely fine. Going into the 2nd leg 3-2 down we still of course would need to produce a good performance to progress. Now, at 4-2 down, we need to produce a close to perfect performance to progress.
#ASRoma President James Pallotta: "We made wrong choices on who to keep, who not to keep" https://t.co/cyakdtKnll pic.twitter.com/9p4jbuqv3h— Football Italia (@footballitalia) March 11, 2017 Honey moon is over.
According to James Fazio has played at least 660 games this season lol....But seriously... he's bitching about players playing too many minutes and in the same breath complains why Salah didn't start against Napoli. I get the feeling he still doesn't know much about the game.
He is absouletly correct. This issue isn't an issue that happened over the last month, this was a problem that began in Sept. During the year Spalletti needed to rotate 1-3 starting players against the likes of Pescara, Palermo Empoli, Genoa and Crotone and even in a couple of the EL group matches. If he had done that, it's probably 3-4 less matches that Dzeko, Ninja, Stroot, etc had to play. Now it's too late, that Napoli game was far and away the most important game of the season. Spalletti was absouletly wrong vs Lazio and it cost him vs Napoli and Lyon. At that point he had no choice he needed his best players vs Napoli, they have to just grind it out now.
That's easier to say. The biggest factor you seem to forget we had a new team again (same old same old) with no chemistry that took time to build. We needed to play a consistent team to get going and that took time, remember people were constantly critizing Spalletti for playing Nianggolan in attacking midfield.. You resting players with a squad a full of new players and a new system trying to be put in place is easy to say now but wrong. If he didn't it's likely we would not have established the consistency we finally seen for a few months until a couple of weeks ago. Keep this established team next year and you can do as you say resting players more early during the next season.