Seconds leading to Lecce’s second goal. What’s the point of playing like this?

by jiipod

9 Comments

  1. Plaslidpladugphoo on

    It’s what an undisciplined team look like. The team wanted to regain the two goal advantage and didn’t give a shit about defending – too arrogant and carefree. We need to learn how to manage the tempo of the game.

    Musah could’ve passed it back to Mike.

  2. Few additional comments:

    * 15 seconds between first and last picture and Pobega and Reijnders are not in the center circle. Actually Pobega enters it, but is followed by a Lecce player.
    * Musah couldn’t safely turn back and pass it to Mike due to the Lecce players position and movement.
    * Chukwueze was also in the right flank, but marked by a Lecce player.
    * What’s the point of Thiaw and Krunic pressing so high up in the first pic? If we would have any kind of midfield structure one of Reijnders or Pobega would have been there instead of Krunic.

    This kind of stuff with our midfielders happens all the time. It is to some extent quality issue especially with Pobega, but this lack of midfield balance in delicate moments is 99% due to how the manager sets the team up and what he demands of the players.

    I chose this example because this had consequences, but similar stuff happens game after game.

  3. mercurialsaliva on

    You missed the part where Musah tried to take on a bunch of lecce players while Theo was down

  4. Guilty-Grapefruit427 on

    What Giroud said after the match against Napoli was perfectly summarized by Chuckuweze when he told his teammates to calm down the tempo, which was absolutely the right thing to do. Its an absolute anarchy on the pitch and the team is playing without a coach,

  5. Pioli doesn’t know how to control games. He never has and it’s showing more and more after the Napoli result. He only has one plan and that’s press high which results in quick counter goals and muscle injuries for players.

    You cannot play every game at 110% intensity

  6. Fantastic-Hamster-21 on

    Theo could’ve kept playing but instead he decided to roll around on the floor…the guy who scored should’ve been marked by him but instead he let us be a man short. His theatrics need to stop. Yes, musah caused a bad turnover and I would put most of the blame on him but watch Theo it’s infuriating.

  7. That’s what make it the most frustrating. The game against Udi, the one against Juve and even that one against Napoli plus this one against Lecce, we were superior, we deserved largely to win. I don’t know if it’s a problem of coaching, tactics, mentality or whatever but we lack a lot of control, of concentration, keeping the ball, slowing down the pace, safeguarding our score advantage, managing the game. I don’t think it is all Pioli’s fault but fgs we can’t pretend playing for the scudeto when we let go of some easy points so easily, so stupidly. It’s unacceptable to make so much mistakes, the same ones on every fking game.

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