Serie A Round 6: Derbi d'Italia (R)

Today I watched Arsenal-Chelsea and the game was twice as ruff than this. The bald english dude never got anything wrong. WTF is the story in Italy, they used to have the best refs now every game has some sort of controversy.

If Italians cant do the job hire foreigners than can!

 

Well then they had them, but still any other big league doesn't even come close to this that's a standard every week in Seria A. I mean how hard can it be? Its not like there moving like lightning.

 

True but since its a standard I mean wouldn't you do it to? Cant really blame the players. If they had normal games nobody would complain.

Santon in for Cordoba. This is a surprise.

 

His less than amazing from the start of this season and he shots far to much for my taste.

 

Jesus. I can't take this.

 

Such a poor game I'm speechless.

 

I kind of want to throw-up now.

Other than the fact that aliens seem to have abducted Milito and replaced him with someone who can't finish, there's a lot on my mind regarding this match. Most of it is revolving around the fact that Juventus is very poor, and our back 4 seemed to struggle mightily at times to keep them from getting wide open shots. If Juve is going to test them like this, what's Spurs going to be able to manage against us? Zanetti is dearly missed. He leads that back 4, and they need a captain, fast.

And any guesses why we have Maicon taking needlessly rushed corner kicks in the last 20 seconds of stoppage time instead of taking time to set something up to make a good effort to get one last good shot on goal?

 

I don't know why everyone is saying it was such a terrible game...
We played fairly, not great but Juve played their butts off to keep it scoreless.
Eto'o was sublime and I thought Coutinho and Stankovic were aswell. Milito, Sneijder, and Chivu were poor and I think this made the difference. It's time to either start Chivu at cb or bench him; he doesn't have the pace or the discipline to play left-back. Sneijder had a bad game; plain and simple. Milito has been struggling, but had some nice movements today. I think we leave Milito out there, quality players don't turn to crap overnight. Once Sneijder,Milito, Eto'o, and Coutinho start to click; this attack will be deadly.

 

Well we look slow, if it wasn't for Eto God knows how much points would we have right now. We played real poor against a team that played poor. This about sums up the game from my point of view.

We got 3 star players that were unbelievable just 3 months ago playing like crap (Maicon, Sneijder, Milito). We got a defence that was so strong that teams practiclly gave up on crossing now every long ball or cross looks like a potential goal. I don't know what kind of instruction Maicon gets but his very limited going forward. Milito played well IMO last night the only thing that was missing was a goal, he found himself 2-3 times in a good position and his movement was good as ever. What he lacks right now is a guy who can pass since Sneijder just doesn't do it.

We practically play 4-2-4 since Sneijder is our main CF most of the time and he barely has any intention to go back. Even more he doesn't even dictate the game as he shots most of the time when he gets the ball. We are predictable and slow I mean you can see 5 minutes before we do something what we will do.

Couthino is just not ready to play such important role. He had a good game against Werder but in needs to be said Werder has the worst defense in Germany right now by far, they leek 2-3 regularly almost every game. We miss Balo and his impact even tho I don't regret his sale. But I do regret that nobody arrived to change him.

I'm also for Santon on LB when he came in Krasic was done, Chive is a big liability there.

From all this for now we got more meaningless possession in the middle and more worries, we look less dangerous and a lot less mobile. What if Eto gets injured or his form dips we are done. Right now we are a team of individuals again not a team. I say whats up Ben?

I'm even more mad when I read that Ben said we played good and the guys that did good in his opinion were bad, even more he always blames fatigue for a bad performance. For how long, we are way in the season if anything we shod be fresh. Why is so hard to say we underperformed and that he expects more? Just with this I would respect him more.

 

Well, this isn't much different from last season. I don't really like Benitez, but last year our performances were just as hit-and-miss in the beginning. We're in good position in serie as well as our champions league group. No reason to start panicing just yet.

 

True but our defense was top notch, we struggled to score but we didn't have like 3-4 100% opportunities per game against us. Now we do. And more players performed overall right now we simply rely on Eto to brake the team down. Its always nice to have possession but if it doesn't bring anything good its bad. Personally I think Rafa shod use the same gameplan Mou did until he gets the players to change it or we will struggle against top opposition.

So far we already have 2 losses, 3 draws and 5 wins since the season started in all competitions we participated. No were near brilliant. We win every other game I say that's pretty alarming. And all wins are against teams that are struggling real bad right now.

 

You re quite right. To be honest, as soon as Milito came in for Babiany and Eto'o was pushed away from goal, my heart sank. When Eto'o was injured in Barcelona (6 months) the team did not see a single title. When he left Barcelona, he helped Inter win the CL. Now he is in good shape, but keeping him away from goal has the same effect as getting injured. Without meaning to downplay Milito's qualities, Eto'o could have put away those chances Milito had. I hope Rafa does the right thing and puts Eto'o where he has truly belonged throughout his career.