pass sideways....
pass sideways....
pass sideways.....
loose the ball!
Thas how much of the first half went. Not until the half an hour mark did we really start to get into the game. The MF again was drab and boring, and even a young and eager Obi couldnt help but give the ball away on numerous occasions. If we have to rely on our CB to be our main inspiration of distribution, then we are going to be in for a long night. There was 0 output from our middle 3, who constantly gave the ball away in easy positions. Its lucky we are facing such a weak, toothless opposition. Any other team would have punished us, and we would be looking at being down by a goal at least.
Theres only so much Sneijder can do, but when the MF trio is so poor, you cant expect him to be in 4 layers at once. We need that link form the defence to the midfield. Theres only so many times lucio can run the ball out of defence by himself, before getting caught out.
Every things seems to be very cautious at the moment. Im really surprised that naga and Johnothan havent gotten into the attack much more. Youd think with 2 defense minded MF infront of you, that gasp woud have told the 2 of them to bomb the flanks. We need as much support as possible for pazzo to score...its not going to happen by it self. Zarate showed signs late in the first half...hopefully he can show some sort of improvement, and help us get on the board. A draw here will be totaly unnacceptable!
Hopefully we see alvarez at the start of the 2nd half....and then if it still dosent work, change to a 4231 and bring the boy wonder cou on. It just aint gonna happen the way we are running shit atm.