Yeah, against Fiorentina, we lacked goals like school boys, but mentally the team never gave up, always tried to come back and turn the result. I was still pissed af because how amateurish we gave away goals, but matches like these happen, it's nothing to overanalyse.
In the Sassuolo game, after the first goal, but even more after the second goal, we checked out mentally. The team tried a bit at the beginning of the 2nd half, but that's it. That's why the Sassuolo loss actually hurts me. The loss wasn't primarely about line-up-guessing, subs or tactical set-up. It even wasn't about giving away stupid goals. It was about how there was zero reaction from the team. Zero. This is very unusual for us. And worrying.
That being said, maybe this is the time of the season where it's the hardest to keep focus. There are already an awful lot of games played, but still a lot to be played, we're in the middle of a seemingly never ending story.
There was this rollercoaster game against Fiorentina, then probably our best game of the season in Wanda Metropolitano where we kept focus basically from the 1st to the last minute, only to end the week with that blunder of a Sassuolo game. Meanwhile I see Inter and Atalanta way more focused. That's were we need to get too asap before we drop too many stupid points on the road.