Okay now I’ve calmed down and I’m not as drunk as last night I’ll give my insights of the game.
I don’t mind playing the ball out the back, biggest problem was we didn’t have the personnel for it. Having Rodriguez, Jack & Borini on the same side really was frustrating. All three of them are generally 2/3 touch players so it was a recipe for disaster to begin with. However, I think Rodriguez was pretty good considering the pressure we put him under.
Bonaventura had moments of brilliance and moments of frustration. Typical Jack show.
Biglia was horrible however, this team NEEDS him. Look at both of our goals, he was the one who decided to change our rhythm and gave a long ball to Suso for the first goal and then he did it again on the second goal. Without his long ball both goals don’t happen, as bad as he was he had a major impact also.
Suso doesn’t work hard enough to receive the ball, he can’t just stick to the right and expect us to feed him.
Kessie was the worst player on the pitch imo, completely useless majority of the match.
Romagnoli was very good
Musacchio was solid however I completely blame him on the first goal, stupid pass to Biglia under pressure which started the attack.
Calabria was okay, nice goal.
I actually felt sorry for Higuain, he had a look on his face like he just realised what he got himself into.
Gattuso fantastic to be 2-0 up. It was perfect, sure we played horribly but we set out a job and executed it for 50 minutes. Once we were 2-0 the playing out from the back shouldn’t have continued, horrible coaching really. Absolutely horrible.
Why did he start Borini I’ll never know.... all in all, I’m very optimistic still. Can’t wait for Caldara and Hakan to start and things change completely imo. Hopefully Conti gets back soon too.