cagliari took us by surprise. team(players, gattuso) probably thought they will try to play defensive. when they came all in attack, we didn't knew how to response. and most importantly, early in the game, mofos were passing the ball around with speed and precision like prime barca for some reason. how the hell were they able to do that? because rest of the game their passing was sloppy as fuck.
overall, gattuso has to take some blame too. hakan should have been subbed way earlier and baka should never have been brought when we were in need of goal. bona was missing sitters but we at least know he gets into these scoring position consistently. higuain needs more service too but i don't particularly blame anyone for that as cagliari were playing full defensive mode after the equalizer.
RR, kessie were good
suso, calabria decent
donna and higuain were ok.
hakan, musa, roma, biglia were terrible.
and bona average
hmm im not so sure about that.
in the past few seasons I noticed that we struggle in the first half when we are playing "smaller" teams on their own turf.
it is something I commented in previous seasons as well and since it occurred with different managers it probably means that there is a mentality issue here.
on our first 2 games that we had to play derby matches we were fired up from the 1st minute.
but against smaller sides for whatever reason the team does not show this determination to dominate the match and show who is the boss in field.
I hope Rino can find a way to change that because dropping points in matches like this will never improve our league position at the end of the season.
FORZA MILAN!