Antonelli was brought on for Bona because Bona has been playing a lot lately and Montella was controlling the draw in the end. Antonelli could offer a good work rate, defensive safety and crosses. I don't think the sub was that weird.
I don't think DeS was shit either like some here are calling. He did a good job on making life difficult for Bernadeschi who is Fiore's most dangerous player in my eyes. DeS was constantly in his back when he recieved passes. He did make one horrible mistake with that one through ball, but I think there are many on this forum who wants to call a bad performance because they have already voiced their opinion on him earlier and are sticking by that even if he does do better.
Last game I think Niang was great, he worked a lot harder and with his physique he was causing Lazio all sorts of trouble. This time he was lazy with and without the ball. He didn't track back to defend nor to help the man on the ball. He also needs to work on his vision, he often looks at the ball way to much.
Calabria was by all means not perfect today, but he is 19 and we got a clean sheet again. We saw his potential for real in the Lazio game and I think it's great he is getting playing time to improve. I have high hopes for the kid. Going forward he is so much better than Abate, he was close to an assist again today.
Locatelli did hold off Babacar for a second before that freekick he got, pretty impressive concidering Babacar is a beast. I think Locatelli with time will turn out to be a pretty physical mid. Good physique for his age.
Donnaruma.. Oh what a wonderful showing again with his insane reaction! If I had to pick out something, I hope he will get better on holding on to balls and give the opposition less rebounds.
Horrible how there is three refs on that field who can't see that the red card and freekick outside the box was clear as daylight.
All in all we are still playing a lot of youngsters, who demonstrated maturity by concentrating until the ref blew the final wistle. We have another clean sheet away from home vs a pretty decent Fiorentina. I can live with this!
With time the players will adapt to Montellas system and our youngsters will grow confidence. I hope we bring in some superstars in the winter mercato who could lead with example and teach our talents the ropes of the game.