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One of the three revelations of the season (3rd spot after Donnaruma and Kucka, also due to his large transfer fee). Glad we got him though it needs to be seen how he'll play with a different partner (truly hope we keep Paletta now that Alex is gone)

He's one of the few players that I'm sure we can sell for the full buy price (25 million) without a problem. He's had problems, although we have to be careful who we put to train him. Brocchi doesn't have the experience to grow players, and we don't have senior players that can guide him...

True, Alex has definitely been great most of the games this year, though Romagnoli was also solid at least for 80% of the games he's played. Let's hope that Paletta is able to fill the shoes next year, considering that Alex seems to be wanting to leave and end his career in Brazil. That said, if...

Hate to say this, but today he was below average even for our side and got completely outplayed by Mandzukic when Juve scored the first goal.

Confirmed, Abate is disqualified for next game. At least we'll get back Montolivo.

There is talk of having him pair with Zapata this week. Not sure how I feel about it, always considered Alex as the best DC at organizing our defense.

Defensively he's always pretty solid when in good form, the main problem he's had has always been his attacking skills. With Honda though, he can afford to sprint more in the open space and in many cases get a through ball delivered to him. Boss game together with Zapata.

He's starting from the bench against Napoli.

Look, I don't have a problem with your analysis and he seems like he has a great future. However, a lot of defenders from South America have been hyped recently (Balanta and Doria to make a couple of recent examples) and leaving aside Thiago Silva, who had a great teacher and partner in Nesta...

River plate is not in Serie A. It's obvious Alex leads the defense, and so is Zapata when he's paired with Romagnoli. Thiago Silva had Nesta until the last year, many think that one of the reasons why Galliani sold him then is because he thought that Thiago Silva on his own would never look as...

What makes you think that Mammana is gonna be great? Haven't seen Mammana, but common sense says that Mammana + Romagnoli is a bad duo since neither is great at leading the defense. They both need to be paired with an experienced DC (paletta or Alex). btw, you're not gonna find a defender of...

Romagnoli had a guaranteed spot, Mexes was being pushed at the time to be in the team at the order of Berlusconi, Zapata seemed to have good relations with Bacca, and Rodrigo Ely had always started the friendlies pairing with Alex, and had played pretty well. When we got Romagnoli, we became...

He needs someone like Alex or Paletta for our DC pair to guide him. Even Thiago Silva at the beginning needed Nesta, in fact one of the jokes that he makes is that at the beginning Nesta wouldn't stop talking giving him directions all the time. One thing is to have good skill, another is to...

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With Honda the understanding is a lot better, and the feeling is that both of them are willing to sacrifice and run a bit more to cover for each other. It remains a fact though that the right side has become a lot stronger recently, though that might depend also on Kucka being there :D

First 20 min was in a bit of a trouble, didn't seem to understand what Eder was doing, needs to thank Alex that covered also for him, became more assured as time passed. Grew a lot more in the second half together with our entire left side (Antonelli + Bonaventura ) that had a not good first half.

All the defenders talking about it, people that have done this for a living have said, that once he committed to go challenge Saponara, he should get either the ball or Saponara (make a foul). It was a clear mistake, end of story... expecting him to play great every single game is not...

yeah not a great game, had some good moments and some not so good moments. I think the midfield today was not placed right, we had quite a bit of space between midfield and defense. That said, it's not like Carpi caused too much trouble overall.

Pretty weak last game especially on the first half.

WTF? If you're gonna blame a guy for a goal taken, the least you can do is consider all the context. Abate moved forward, Cerci stayed back and was next to Giacherini. Abate lost ball, Cerci should have covered and he did not. I really don't get it, if Abate stays only in defense, people say...