Week 5: Milan - Roma 26/10/2020 20:45 CET

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We have several ManU/Milan fans here, which makes no sense as ManU was one of Milan’s bitches for the entire Carlo era.
 

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We?ve been suspect on corners and set pieces. Can?t make the same mistakes against Roma and Dzeko.
It?s also our first game being clear on top of the table, I hope Zlatan can help maintain that same intensity.
Honestly this is our toughest match yet considering the absences of Rebic and Hakan.
 

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Roma without 2 starting defenders...

3-1
Ibra, Diaz, Hauge
 

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Fuuuuuuuck I thought this was tomorrow night.
 

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Yup. We play beautiful. Not the same intensity as post corona break but still beautiful.

Remember, we only had to play 9 games post corona lockdown, that's why we were able to keep that high as fuck intensity every single game. Now we have an entire season, competing in three different competitions. It's only logical that we play calmer in order to maintain fatigue on a normal level.

We finally play modern and beautiful football.

We played 12 games in 6 weeks?
 

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Exactly. We were almost playing a match every 3 days.
 

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We need you to kindly fuck off
The fuck General ?
Quass is our secret weapon that only is asked to fuck off when we are failing to win in a conditional way.
Just leave him be , for OUR sake.

Only during the match when things look bleak. The Qaas special.
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How much are we gonna win by tomorrow?
 

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No points allowed to be lost till napoli if we are serious enough for 4th place finish or even higher.

i wish Hauge starts, for me he is more suited than both krunich or leao, especially that rebic is about to get back soon , so it is now or never.
 

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wow, if we win we'll go 4 points clear.

I know it's early days, but can't help getting excited
 

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wow, if we win we'll go 4 points clear.

I know it's early days, but can't help getting excited

Yes, and we'll go 5 clear of Inter, 6 clear of Atalanta and 8 clear of Roma and Lazio. Plus at least 4 clear of Juve and Napoli depending on their results today.

Such an important 3 points tomorrow.
 

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So now that Mancini negative they're for sure playing 343, right?

We already defend pretty narrow so i'm not too worried about Mkhi and Pedro hovering around Dzeko, and Kjaer can handle the big guy I think. Leao would be very promising here as their RWB isn't nowhere near as good as their left side with Spinazzola. We'll probably take the same risk we did against Inter with Leao staying pretty high up all the time and pull defenders away from Ibra.

I think the big question now is who's the AM? If we play Leao then it should definitely be Krunic. Saelemaekers will have his hands full with Spinazzola, so we need someone to drop back and help out Bennacer and Kessie. Mkhitarian and Pedro, and even Dzeko drop way back all the time to overload the midfield, so we need someone to help out and Brahim can't do this well. So my guess is it's going to be Krunic again.

-edit wrote this initially in the wrong thread
 
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problem with krunic is he doesnt deliver ball to ibra so ibra needs to go back/wide and do playmaker role more often
ibra looked really tired against celtic after 60 minutes of covering more pitch than usually he does.
 

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problem with krunic is he doesnt deliver ball to ibra so ibra needs to go back/wide and do playmaker role more often
ibra looked really tired against celtic after 60 minutes of covering more pitch than usually he does.

Ibra looked really frustrated at Brahim also who played a couple of bad passes to him.

I think we will need Krunic if we play with Leao. I don't know I can't imagine Brahim will be able to consistently block passes to Pellegrini/Veretout. Krunic seems more of a disciplined player when it comes to positional instructions. Might be wrong.
 

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Ibra looked really frustrated at Brahim also who played a couple of bad passes to him.

I think we will need Krunic if we play with Leao. I don't know I can't imagine Brahim will be able to consistently block passes to Pellegrini/Veretout. Krunic seems more of a disciplined player when it comes to positional instructions. Might be wrong.


The diaz ibra miscommunication was bound to happen since it was Diaz first time playing with ibra on the field. Am sure it will improve next time they play together

Krunic doesnt offer anything in the final third. Hope he doesnt start
 

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The diaz ibra miscommunication was bound to happen since it was Diaz first time playing with ibra on the field. Am sure it will improve next time they play together

Krunic doesnt offer anything in the final third. Hope he doesnt start

Why not have the same faith that Krunic will improve?
 

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The diaz ibra miscommunication was bound to happen since it was Diaz first time playing with ibra on the field. Am sure it will improve next time they play together

Krunic doesnt offer anything in the final third. Hope he doesnt start

Krunic is hands down the best header in the squad.

Diaz has a potentially higher upside but he also gives the feel that he could loose you the match, because he is so on and off and physically weak. Imo there is a reason for why there has been limited trust in him and even Pioli puts him in safer positions like LW.
 

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problem with krunic is he doesnt deliver ball to ibra so ibra needs to go back/wide and do playmaker role more often
ibra looked really tired against celtic after 60 minutes of covering more pitch than usually he does.

Can we not talk about problems for one god damned day
 

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Interesting fact: Ibra and Džeko first time facing each other. Ibra have bosnian roots, and apparently his father offered Zlatan to play for Bosnia.They rejected him.So he chose Sweden.
 

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Hakan is available for this game it seems. Not sure if he's starting though.

We'll need him for at least 30 minutes. He's the glue between the midfield and attack.
 

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Interesting fact: Ibra and D?eko first time facing each other. Ibra have bosnian roots, and apparently his father offered Zlatan to play for Bosnia.They rejected him.So he chose Sweden.

Should have played for Croatia. Atleast in 2018... :love:
 

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