A somewhat short month due to the international break. Only one away fixture at Sampdoria. We better pick up all 12 points we need to grab for the month. Serie A 5 Nov - Benevento 19 Nov - at Sampdoria 26 Nov - Crotone Champions League 22 Nov - Barcelona
December is the juicy month with Napoli & Inter & Roma We need to really get into gear by those stretches of big 4 games within a month. These International friendlies really screw the rhythm of clubs first 3 months of the season.
We must get at least a point against Barca. A win would be better. I don't want to have to go to the KOS needing a result in the midst of our December schedule.
Yup and especially Away at Oly where Barca couldnt even score We need to come for a win against Barca
Wow that's a crazy schedule. Incredible how that happens. Mean while Sarri complaining about the fact they had 1 day less of recovery against City.
Well keep in mind Barcelona were missing a lot of key players against Olympiacos and wasted a lot of chances. Not to take anything away from Olympiacos as it was impressive, but Barca did not play nearly at their best. They were more than capable of winning that game.
The Barca game will be a fantastic opportunity for Paulo or Gonzalo to assert them selves... one of them needs to develop into being a consistent game changing player in these big games against big teams.
Well same can be said about a lot of our games too. Especially the Barca game we lost I believe we had half the team missing
Yeah thats true. Against Barcelona, we were without Khedira, Mandzukic, and Chiellini. Cuadrado as well, but I don't think he should be a starting player. Mandzukic and Chiellini were huge losses, especially Mandzukic. Honestly the way Mandzukic converts chances, works so hard, and helps with defense a lot, is extremely hard to replace. He was a real key player for us in the Barcelona games quarterfinals last season. He really helped a lot with defense.
We are lucky that Inter drew today. With a win we can at least go up to third place depending on the results of Lazio and Napoli.