It's funny saying that we don't have quality or that managers don't change things when we just lost to Roma, twice, after they changed their manager.
We used to smack them around.
What changed?
It was the players who made the plan for Calabria to be a CM? Musah to be a RWB? Reijnders to be benched? Theo to stay back, Calabria to roam free, Gabbia galloping forward as he pleased?
Give me a break. Deflecting about players and their effort when Pioli is being consistently shown to be a stubborn moron who doesn't even use the things he used to do well.
Napoli in the CL was such a smart approach, why not use it again? Why?
I think our players tried hard, it didn't work, but they ran, they were committed in the tackle, the plan was just horrific.
Carlo puts his players in the position to succeed. Part of that is temperament and people skills, and it seems Pioli has that, but the other side is tactical.
He was down 1-0 not 4-0 and he went with a terrible game plan that made it seem like if he didn't score in the first 5 minutes we'd die. There was no need to do what he did.
You can talk about transfers, Bennacer, Maldini, deflect as much as you want. Roma is not City. It's not even Inter. But he finds a way to make other teams look impressive despite having quality in his squad.
He doesn't have a DM? Inter play with Hakan, Mkhi, and Barella as their CMs. They are well drilled and his team defends as a unit, like Real, like Bayer, like fucking Bologna who rely on Salesmaekers lol.
Today was the ultimate Pioli flourish. Our best midfielder arguably this season is on the bench. Is he using Musah to protect Theo and Leao's side like he did against PSG? Nope. Calabria as a CM with Musah RWB slash RM, leaving Gabbia isolated.
Today was so plainly about tactics, I genuinely don't understand how you can talk about squad quality when Bove and El Sharaawy were there. Celik, Mancini, and Smalling are suddenly world beaters?
Pioli has been wasting the players at his disposal for the last two years.