Shit performance. This team is mid table at best. Empoli deserved this win. Time to light a fire on this team. Also Dybala once again shows that he can’t carry this team. This is why we needed Higuain and Ronny.
Seems like there has been quite a lot of turnover with the crew of refs this year. That guy looked like he should be doing Serie B or C games.
Since Bepe left, our "plan" seems to have disappeared. At this point it is pretty clear it is not just the coach who was/is the problem. We have gotten worse each year since Ronaldo arrived and Bepe left.
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I actually sucked it up and watched the whole match. Hardly any passion and other than Chiesa, lots of players just standing around and when they didn't get a call from the CR, they just bitched rather than playing football. Yes, the CR was not very good but he screwed calls on both sides. This stuff happens and teams have to play through it which Juve did not do. As I said before, Juve needed to totally redo the MF. They didn't and this result will happen week after week. If this is the quality, making it through the CL group may even be dicey. I guess we will see what the team is made of with the next two league matches against Napoli and Milan. They really need two wins in those games to get some confidence. Looking at Chiellini near the end of the match, I think he has a better feel for what is wrong than does Allegri. This was in stark contrast to the masked Nedved who should be given a first class ticket back to Prague. EDIT: there is one consolation, Juve are not as bad as Arsenal.
With that said, our expectation is not winning the league title but qualifying for CL. The way things are we ain’t qualifying for s*t this year. Things looking super bleak and then when the CL starts I’m worried this team don’t even make it past group stages because how bad we are.
Imagine taking off Chiesa and finishing the game with Bernardeschi and De Sciglio in the lineup. Good god. Might as well thrown in Rugani.
Allegri sh*t the bed today. We all know our midfielders suck and that's why the Locatelli signing was huge. Manuel was great when he came on. Max of course doesn't bring him on until it's too late because he's working him back to "fitness". Great. He's worked himself into a 5 point hole. Max has this weird loyalty to certain players even when they suck. Danilo as a midfielder had me laughing my ass off. It's INFURIATING as hell seeing Samuele Ricci just DOMINATE us in the midfield and he just turned 20. Meanwhile, Betancur, Rabiot, and Danilo looked like they had cinderblocks for feet. Absolutely disgusting display today. Is it too late to sign another decent midfielder in the next 2 days?
Buckle up, everybody. This is going to be painful. Remember the days of Secco? Back to the future (for now).