It was a shitfest, but at least we got 3 points. Lets hope this sparks a comeback.
Positives:
1. Rafinha - I fucking love this guy already, he made the difference the moment he came on. Its so good to see a midfielder take initiative, play at high intensity, and go after every ball and every pass. Whats even better is that this guy has technical skills to match - probably our most skilled midfielder since Sneijder.
2. Karamoh - youthful confidence combined with great pace. That was so refreshing to watch, capped off by a fantastic goal on debut. Tho some people here are hyping him up already - apart from the goal, you could see he lacks good decision making / movement that comes with experience. But we needed this refreshing change. Kudos to Spalletti for doing this, and Karamoh has probably tripled his market value with that 1 goal.
Negatives: Too many to list, so will stick with the main one:
1. Attitude of some players - mainly Perisic & Brozovic, but this is starting to infect the whole team. These fuckers are just going through the motions, jogging along with no sense of urgency or passion. Not even professional pride. When one player has the ball, the others just fucking stand there ball watching instead of making runs and creating passing options. Like no one gives a fuck anymore. Spalletti should make them all watch Rafinha's movement & attitude today.
As soon as Rafinha & Icardi are fit to start, we need to drop Perisic and Brozovic from the starting XI. I much rather have hard grafters like Eder and Candreva playing badly than these fuckers who don't seem to care anymore. Because their attitude seems to infect the entire team down. Lets give Karamoh some more starts, he deserves it - even if he is inconsistent due to his inexperience, at least he will give it a go. At the moment its all about attitude. We should only start the players who are ready to work their fucking socks off. Blood and tears on the pitch, thats what I want to see from here on.
MOTM: Rafinha, even though he only played 30 minutes, he changed the game
Fucker of the game: Perisic, everything he touched turned to shit, was ball watching instead of making runs
Coach Rating: 5. Even tho we won and Spalletti got most things right, he almost threw the game away against 10 men with that idiotic 3rd substitution.