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Parma should be relegated back to Serie B
 

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We still lost 2x to this crap club tho...
And they equalise
Offside yaay haha
As long as we don't lose the league because of a Milan result, I'm good with losing to them and then finishing outside top 5.
 

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Buhahahahhaha Suzuki u are one dumb fucker
 

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Parma should be deducted extra 3 points for this. This is worse than our match :lol: 👏
 

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Parma is so bad, they not only deserved to lose this match, but this is some amateurish relegation worthy stuff. My god... :lol:
 

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Parma is so bad, they not only deserved to lose this match, but this is some amateurish relegation worthy stuff. My god... :lol:
Suzuki sold them single-handedly, otherwise they were solid. Fuck that guy
 

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Conte's situation right now is absolutely identical to his first season at Chelsea, taking over a once-removed league champion team who finished midtable the following season and isn't playing in Europe. That first year at Chelsea, they ran away with the league. His second season afterwards, with CL games back on the schedule? Nobody will hold it against them that they didn't defend their league title against 100-point Man City, but Chelsea finished 30 points out of 1st and finished in 5th place, out of the CL spots entirely.

Not exactly. There are some similarities but league circumstances were different. It was his first season at Chelsea but it was also the first season for Pep at City, for Mourinho at Utd, first full season for Klopp at Liverpool. It was a summer of change for the league in general. From the rest, Arsenal decline was in full swing in the latter years of Wenger, Spurs are Spurs and fairytales only happen once (Leicester). Circumstances were perfect for Conte to have an instant impact.

That's not the case this year in Italy. Reigning champions Inter came from a dominating campaign, their coach is in his fourth season at the club, they kept all their best players (for once) and they even made some addditions to the squad.
 

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wow, parma are a fucking joke
 

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I never see a worse player performance than Hainaut. Parma defensive midfielder.
He was subbed in 83th fucking minutes to reinforce the defence. And here was what he did:
- chopped Pavlovic 20cm at the edge of the box, almost a penalty
- lost the ball and ruined Parma counter attack, led to Pavlovic disallowed goal.
- Milan Reijnders equalizer...did you guys see the ridiculous gap in front of Suzuki and no DM to be seen?

There was an idiot that kept Chukwueze onside by jogging at the corner flag...looks like him again. No replay so must be double checked.

Jesus Christ all the stuffs he did in 7+ minutes. Even a player from our Vietnamese league can't be that bad.
 

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You really don't think those two things might be completely correlated to each other? It's easier for Napoli to be able to run over Juventus in the second half when Juventus had to play a game in Brussels earlier this week while Napoli had a full week of training with no travel. It's kind of ridiculous if you think we wouldn't have a stronger league record this season if we didn't have European commitments, but at the same time it's just something we're going to have to overcome, we'd obviously rather have CL games than not have them.

I mean, there are some uncomfortable truths here. Napoli have a better points tally from games they fell behind in than we do. That's true. They haven't lost any points from games where they held a 2nd half lead, we've lost six points. I'll grant both of those. But we're hand-wringing and criticizing our team for their failures in all of this when, through it all, we're still having a strong season (thus far) by any statistical standard. We have a top-5 points pace among teams in top-4 leagues. We've scored the most goals in the league this season, conceded the second-fewest. So I'll reiterate that we can't help it if Napoli - lighter schedule and all - is managing to keep pushing us each week. We have zero control over their games. It just feels like nonsense to suggest we're failing ourselves this season when we're on an 89-point pace. There's only been one season in the 3-points-for-win era of Serie A where 89 points wasn't enough to win the Scudetto. If that happened against his season, accept it for what it is and give Napoli their credit. There's no shame in that scenario.
The worst thing is that we have to write this every fucking season because some posters just keep forgetting that it's not that easy playing 60 matches per year. Serie A needs to be 18 teams, those 4 less games per season would be a blessing for the quality of football and less chance of injuries in the long run.
 

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Pathetic defending by Parma in last phase of the match. Tactically zero, no awareness and grinta to take home 3pts. Like how do you even throw away all that effort through most part of the game?

I'm ready for another weekend of how magical Conceicao is, despite them being complete ass :lol:

Seriously, not winning in derby would've been criminal. Our team can get the fuck off eventually. You can't be that naive to allow another fiasco against these bunch of runaways.
 

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Suzuki sold them single-handedly, otherwise they were solid. Fuck that guy
Did you see the reijnders goal and the hole in the defense in that situation. That shit was shambolic :lol: It wasn't just a goalkeeper, they looked shaky overall.
 

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You really don't think those two things might be completely correlated to each other? It's easier for Napoli to be able to run over Juventus in the second half when Juventus had to play a game in Brussels earlier this week while Napoli had a full week of training with no travel. It's kind of ridiculous if you think we wouldn't have a stronger league record this season if we didn't have European commitments, but at the same time it's just something we're going to have to overcome, we'd obviously rather have CL games than not have them.

I mean, there are some uncomfortable truths here. Napoli have a better points tally from games they fell behind in than we do. That's true. They haven't lost any points from games where they held a 2nd half lead, we've lost six points. I'll grant both of those. But we're hand-wringing and criticizing our team for their failures in all of this when, through it all, we're still having a strong season (thus far) by any statistical standard. We have a top-5 points pace among teams in top-4 leagues. We've scored the most goals in the league this season, conceded the second-fewest. So I'll reiterate that we can't help it if Napoli - lighter schedule and all - is managing to keep pushing us each week. We have zero control over their games. It just feels like nonsense to suggest we're failing ourselves this season when we're on an 89-point pace. There's only been one season in the 3-points-for-win era of Serie A where 89 points wasn't enough to win the Scudetto. If that happened against his season, accept it for what it is and give Napoli their credit. There's no shame in that scenario.
My point is that we need better roster if we fire on all fronts.
 

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look at all of you egg faced goons with egg on your faces. Milan's world class mentality and never-die attitude, combined with our pathetic inability to hold onto leads is going to be a disgusting combo next week. My prediction: Inter go up 6-0 at half time only to lose 6-7 then I can finally kill you all. You thought I was going to say myself but why would I do that
 
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