Tek has saved Chiellini blushes. Great save. Chiesa and cuadrado disappointing first half. Don’t like how deep we are sitting inviting them on. They seem to have a lot of room in midfield to shift the ball. Think we need to up a he tempo in the second half and show more urgency
Didn’t play well tonight. Felt we gave the ball away to easy, gave to many silly fouls and I thought we rode our luck. However we defended fantastic again as a team.It was an ugly win but 3 points again. I prefer it when we are in control of the ball and dictating the game. Something Allegri needs to get us doing again
The team needs to be more aggressive but oh well. We played solid. Kean with a nice goal. Berna actually played well. Cuadrado was dog shit today. Chiesa was non existent. Shezny made a great pk save. This team will definitely be better with a healthy Dybala and Morata. Arthur was decent for the few minutes he was in there. It’s good to see some midfield control again.
I though we were fortunate that Orsato didn't play advantage on the penalty he gave. Setting that aside, it's nice to see the little run we're on and that we look better-organized defensively. Allegri must have a lot to do with that. It was also nice to see a number of the players who have been historically dog shit for us put in nice efforts: De Sciglio, Bernardeschi, Arthur, Bentacur, etc. Hopefully we have turned the corner and we are finding form. It would be nice to get Dybala back soon and I hope that Chiesa could be slid back into his more comfortable winger role because he really struggled to make an impact as one of the two strikers yesterday. I also thought that Allegri made a good move switching over to a 4-3-3 later in the second half when Roma were completely outplaying us. The extra midfielder in Arthur allowed us to keep better control in midfield and take some pressure off the defense who were constantly under threat. Chiellini had one of his uncharacteristically poor matches yesterday so it looked to be a matter of time before we conceded. Fortunately Allegri's changes prevented that.
They don't play advantage in the box because if the player misses the goal, they won't then call for a penalty. Also, if he did call for an advantage VAR would have reviewed the goal and then he would have annulled it since Mkhitaryan handled the ball before it went to Abraham.
Grinta has returned. I do not like the way Max has used #22 the last couple of games. he is far more dangerous when he has room to move.
Chiesa should never play in the role of a striker. He was non existent. Put him where he should be and you got a diamond. I’m sure Allegri learned from yesterday. I think he probably didn’t have much of a choice because both Morata and Dybala are not 100%. Surprised Kaio didn’t get any minutes but that’s understandable since we already a youngest starting in Kean who has proven his ability to score vs someone who just turned 19 and is probably not going to be a starter this year.
With the Zenit match out of the way, arguably the most important match is up against Inter. A win against them puts in good position going forward.
More players stating the obvious about CR3.5: https://football-italia.net/chiellini-ronaldo-needed-team-to-play-for-him/ Ultimately he is one of the most selfish players ever to lace them up. But we all knew that, didn't we?
He's always been a self-centered ********. I wish they would stop discussing it because overall the Ronaldo experiment was a failure, no more so than the results on the pitch.
LOL. THIS will surprise absolutely no one. the only surprise is how open they are being about it: https://football-italia.net/whats-behind-bonucci-and-chiellinis-words-on-ronaldo/