I believe what I wrote, specifically, was that he did most of what people wanted. He didn't drop Suso like people wanted, me included, but he started Samu. He dropped Hakan. He switched to 3 at the back, dropping RR, and really, really unfortunately, Calabria got hurt, so Conti got to start, as did Caldara, which are all things that have been routinely said around here.
People said Gattuso was an idiot for not starting Laxalt. Laxalt doesn't seem to help that much. I've seen him as a LB and as a LWB, where he's supposed to be good, and I haven't seen anything.
Conti doesn't defend well, and his attacking ability seems to have disappeared. The funny thing is, I want him to do well, so badly, but I have to admit, he's not doing well.
Samu has been very inconsistent here. He's played on the right, in fact, he started the second half on the right, where Suso went more central, and both were even worse there.
Caldara did well, why he hasn't played earlier, I'm not sure, but I don't see Gattuso screwing over people, but I think he's been overly cautious after what happened with Conti. Same thing with Paqueta. And I don't hold that against Gattuso, at all. If Gattuso didn't have to sub our Calabria for injury, maybe Paqueta would have played? Maybe he's really not ready to play yet.
First of all, I was not in favor of Gattuso when he was appointed. Gattuso has shown, at the start of the year, that he wants to attack. I crushed Gattuso for abandoning that approaches in the first Derby. He tried to play ugly and he's made Inter look better than they are, twice.
But when you talk about Suso and Samu playing as FB's, let me ask you: why were they forced to go back so often? Suso gave the ball away, every fucking time he got the ball. How many times did he pass the ball, directly into a Lazio player? Can Samu stand up? Not in the game, but in life. Does he fall over if someone stands next to him on the elevator? Where is his pace that he's supposed to have? Why can't he just kick it forward and run past someone? Lesser players do that, why can't he?
Against Inter, both times, Gattuso set up the team in a bad way. He didn't adjust against Inter until it was too late, but Inter didn't setup that differently, it was not so much that Spaletti did something different, but Gattuso making Bakayoko push forward, opened up space that Spaletti's 4-2-3-1 naturally took advantage of, which, Gattuso really should have known like, without having to watch Inter do well for the first like 45 minutes of the game before even making an adjustment.
So games like that make me angry. But then there are games, that I'm equally mad at, but I'm angry more at the players than I am at Gattuso. And you can say, fairly, that Gattuso puts the players on the field, but, at the same time, just because Samu doesn't like the left side, doesn't mean he ceases to be able to hold onto the ball, or pass it, or like, anything, right?
I am put into the whole "Gattuso defender" camp, but, I'm really more of a "I want what is best for Milan," camp. I don't think firing Gattuso would help. Maybe in the summer, maybe even with 4th place, but not right now. I hated Sinisa, with a passion, but firing him when we did was not helpful at all. Right now I don't think firing Gattuso would help, I just have trouble squaring away these two arguments:
Hakan, Suso, RR, etc etc are all so shit, and are Serie B worthy, and yet, Gattuso should be doing better with such distinct shit. I don't understand that loop. This team should have more points, I agree with that, but, at the same time, is Suso and Hakan being inconsistent something new? Is Biglia being unreliable new? Are we finding out how much we miss Bonaventura, I'd say yes. Did we suffer more long-term injuries than anyone in Serie A? Yes.
If someone is more even-handed, but wants Gattuso out, I get it. But acting like it's either all on the players, or all on Gattuso, that doesn't make sense to me.
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. I see the limits of our squad. But no one is asking them to win the Scudetto. I blame more the coach because in that egg/chicken question I think most of our problems are a result of Rinos coaching, not the other way around.
. I see the limits of our squad. But no one is asking them to win the Scudetto. I blame more the coach because in that egg/chicken question I think most of our problems are a result of Rinos coaching, not the other way around.
