The 2016/2017 Calcio Saga

The glorious days when Juve finished 7th every year

EL SHAARAWYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

1-0 Roma

Man Serie A is on fire this round

Ulalalalalalala golnzalo higuain !!!!

HIGUAINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Sass tied Chievo 1-1, Defrel with his 6th goal in appearances this season.

3-0 Alves

Salah 2-0 Roma

It seems like everyone wake up after Inter beat Juve

Pjanic seems to be doing alright.

He was involved in all three goals, 1 assist. The team is just running rampant on Cagliari.

Alright yeah but he can do better.

Hopefully we can see Cuadrado and Pjaca in the 2nd half.

De Boer

Definitely a great first half, not just for the result.
It was much time  we didn't play so well, we deserved the 0-3.
The only negative thing are the yellow cards, for Murillo Miranda and Medel ..... three crucial player defensively .... so the match is still long  , considering also we have problems to get the clean sheets..
Joao Mario a boss.

p.s. As I said just yesterday, Di Marco is really promising. The best fullback in pitch ..plays for them

Tomwin Lannister wrote:Good to see Allegri is hard at work trying different formations and coming up with a plan B for us, also nice to see he's giving plenty of minutes to Cuadrado and Pjaca allowing them to gain form and Pjaca to grow as a player. Great stuff.

Oh shit nope I just wandered off in to an alternate reality where most Italian coaches weren't stubborn as *bleep*


Probably gonna win 3-0 and stick with 3-5-2 for another decade

actually he did more then what the formation tells on paper, Lemina is box to box, Hernanes is back to DM and imo with Marchisio out he is the best option we have. Started Rugani and put him in Barzagli place, Dybala and Higuain rotate same can be said about Sandro up there. Tactical changes all over the place.

Neto subbed in at halftime

Dzeko scored from a Totti assits, 3-0

Inter, Juve and Roma all comfortable so far. Napoli lacking a goal but dominant away to Genoa.

DeviAngel wrote:

Tomwin Lannister wrote:Good to see Allegri is hard at work trying different formations and coming up with a plan B for us, also nice to see he's giving plenty of minutes to Cuadrado and Pjaca allowing them to gain form and Pjaca to grow as a player. Great stuff.

Oh shit nope I just wandered off in to an alternate reality where most Italian coaches weren't stubborn as *bleep*


Probably gonna win 3-0 and stick with 3-5-2 for another decade

actually he did more then what the formation tells on paper, Lemina is box to box, Hernanes is back to DM and imo with Marchisio out he is the best option we have. Started Rugani and put him in Barzagli place, Dybala and Higuain rotate same can be said about Sandro up there. Tactical changes all over the place.

Most of that is tactical fixes for his own mess.

I could have told you Lemina is a shit DM and Pjanic is wasted deep

We need a plan B, not a slightly revised 3-5-2.

Not a good beginning of 2nd half for us ffs

Roma on fire.

4-0

Dzeko

@Tom we don't just need a plan B, we also need a plan A. This looks like the way to achieve that. Our team has to click and it makes all the sense in the world to do that using the formation that they are all familiar with, and that squad is built for.

Then we should probably play our most important player in such a plan AKA Higuain away at Inter

Yes, but when did Mandzukic became so bad that he can't play for us? Its just hindsight. Mandzukic was fine all last season. It was a mistake, yes, but it was a completely reasonable call.

That's not to do with today's game though, Allegri clearly got it right against Cagliari.

Hindsight? Nah. Mandzukic isn't half the player Higuain is in front of goal, and Allegri himself stated the Juve Inter game was our first real test. Mandzukic has not been good enough in front of goal for us and his general play isn't exactly great either.


Dice it whatever way you want but I am not impressed with Allegri's start to the season. 2 important games, 1 avoidable draw and 1 avoidable defeat. He needs to buck his ideas up. We could destroy Cagliarli with a 3-4-3 diamond with Hernanes on the wing, this is not a test for us.

Blame him for Sevilla, not for Inter. The players flopped there. Its up to them perform on the pitch and they were nowhere to be found. We fielded a proper starting 11, Inter was just much more in the game. The coach is not always at fault.