You guys have to understand the difference between away and home games. You need to be great to win away to a rival. Genoa, Chievo and all the small sides would have a chance winning at Roma, but not Milan or Inter. This is how it is, you can only win those if you are a top side. That's why I was saying we had no chance, because I know how it works in Serie A. No matter how close you get or better you play, you'll somehow end up losing. Maybe a draw at most, but you almost never beat a rival away if you're at the level of this and last few years Milan's. We beat Juve at home, but this same side would never do it in Turin. We had no chance away to Roma, but we'll beat them at home. Same with Napoli, we lost expectedly away, but we'll probably win at San Siro.
I expect you guys to understand this shit.
I'm not a fan of this thinking about football. I like more the way most coaches see it and try to explain it when they talk in press conferences or interviews: every match has his unique story. Like a story there are periods, let's say plot twists who decide how a match will end. Sometimes, as you say, you are the better team overall but because of such a plot twist (like a non-given regular goal or a player who misses open goal etc. - there are hundreds of plot twists) the game ends in this way and not in the other.
Let's take the Milan-Roma game. You say we had never a chance to win this game and were destined to loose it no matter what. Now I say there is a period, a plot-twist, who probably has decided the game: Niang's missed penalty.
What if he didn't miss the penalty? We can't say for sure that we'd have won but we know that until know we have won, bar the Inter game, every match when we took the lead. So it's not far stretched to say if Niang had transformed the pen into a goal our chances to win this game would have risen expotentially.
It's a small period, some seconds of this whole 90 minutes, who probably have influenced the result. And now that's when coaches say that they don't like to rate a game based on the result, because results are influenced by periods one can't controll no matter how much you train. Coaches instead rate a match based on the overall performance - and our performance against Roma was a Top 5 performance from us of this season.
We have won games where we played way worse, but in the way you are describing it only thing that matters is the result. No it isn't, through good performances you'll see good results, not the other way around. Don't forget this team is a work in progress, it's the youngest team of the entire league and with the right coach - and I think Montella is the right coach - this team can't do other than improve with every minute, gane and season played.
We are at the beginning of a cycle while Roma is kind of stagnating since 3 years IMO. Always somewhere between Top 3 but never near Juve. Maybe I'll be proven wrong by Roma but right now that's the way I see it.
, Suso, Bonaventura, Calhanoglu, Kessie, Cutrone, Paqueta, Bakayo
