Romagnoli during the game about Lukaku after Lautaro made it 1-0:
"velocissimo (He's very fast)"
https://twitter.com/SempreMilanCom/status/1363800702158589952
Grande Capitano getting bullied by a donkey.
It only took him 5 games to realize this.
He isn't just physically slow, but mentally as well.
I know Romagnoli's been eating shit for breakfast here for months (rightfully in many occasions), but this is not on him.
There's a whole bunch of people that are to blame for this particular thing before him. Pioli and his 'mini me' being on top of this list. There's also a whole team of analysists and pundits that are supposed to help with the strategy. They were facing a team known for being one of the fastest and most clinical on counters and how did they approach them? Instead of focusing on limiting Lukaku and trying to hold the center (never happening with Pioli when facing 3-5-2 btw), they literally gave him and Lautaro all the space that they needed. Since the very beginning of the game it looked like we were with 2 men down. Their counters were like a walk in the park. There were numerous occasions when they attacked 4 vs 4 after just 1 simple pass from Brozovic/CB. There were also chances 4 vs 3. Not one or two. That's how much space there was available for merda's strikers. They caught us with our pants down in the 4th minute ffs
Conte's been using one and the same setup for the whole season - sit back -> win the ball -> long ball to Lukaku -> distribute to Hakimi/Barella/Lautaro or turn around and attack the already thin defense. When they do it 10 times per game, it's practically not possible to not score at least once. Every fucking game. And what did we do to stop this? Seriously asking. What was Pioli's plan to stop merda's counters? Romagnoli's reaction speaks not of his stupidity but of a total lack of preparation. His, team's and coach's lack of preparation. After playing already 4 times against Lukaku they still haven't found enough time to analyze his game and try to stop him. I guess the instructions to the defensive department for the game were 'just don't let them score'. Blaming Romagnoli and Kjaer who was awful too yesterday is like blaming a group of soldiers for being killed, instead of their command that drove them to an ambush. That's what Conte did with Pioli. Allowed him to hold the ball, be confident at times that his team knows what to do and then out of nowhere kill the game. We actually got lucky to only concede 3. Apart from the 20 minutes (35th - 55th) when we were attacking with serious power, Conte's team was all over ours. In every aspect.
The only one who actually had a good game was Theo who kept Hakimi silent for the whole game. But he prepared himself as he knows who he was up against from their time in Madrid.
Yes, Handanovic saved them, but this is not changing the fact that Conte outsmarted and outclassed Pioli completely. He did the exact same thing against Pirlo and Inzaghi and you know what happened? Another 2 wins in derbies with many goals scored from counters. It actually drives me crazy that such a simple approach is working so well for them and the opponents' coaches keep on doing nothing to stop it.
P.S. No, there's 1 coach that actually made something to stop them - Prandelli in the cup game. Ever since Lukaku came on (played like 50-60 minutes in total) he had Igor/Quarta all the time on his back and did not allow him to do anything. As a result Lukaku was completely silent until the last minute when he was left alone in the box and scored a header. Apart from that merda did not create anything good against this mediocre Viola.
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