Our problem is internal more than how to counter tactic our rivals.
Our structure rather if its defensive or offensive is broken regardless of our formation or tactic.
You think we have internal problems? De Rossi used deliberate tactics to stifle our left side and our right didn't create enough. They shifted SES to the right and used him as a classic RW and his right footed crosses were messing us up.
Our midfield was overrun, because of how Dybala dropped and create overloads while our CBs were baited into Lukaku only to have the ball laid off. Our man-marking is used against us.
I genuinely don't get the idea that our players have some massive problem, when there is such an obvious gap in organization between our team and others, including teams far less talented than ours.
Pioli plays as if by letting the opposition have one on ones with our defenders, that the other team will do the same for our attackers. They don't.
Our defensive structures are terrible. Defending 1v1s all over is a stupid thing to do, especially because we don't actually create enough offensively to justify that level of risk. We are scoring, but we aren't creating chances to a level that justifies the amount of our players we hurl into attack.
It's why I don't call RLC lazy. I think he's instructed to be less involved defensively. On corners? Yeah, that's on him. Does he actually lose more defensive duels than many want to admit? Yes. But I think he could be far more effective as an all around player, right now, he's just playing the Brahim role. Meanwhile, Brahim's best games for us came at RW, not CAM.
I'm not saying RLC should be a RW, but I think misusing players is a hallmark of Pioli's last two years, as his current "vision" has been clear and it is getting easier and easier for top teams to exploit.
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