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.We still lost 2x to this crap club tho...
And they equalise
Offside yaay haha
He won milan the game ffs what a donkey all three goals on himThat Parma GK is a joke
That Parma GK is a joke
Suzuki sold them single-handedly, otherwise they were solid. Fuck that guyParma is so bad, they not only deserved to lose this match, but this is some amateurish relegation worthy stuff. My god...![]()
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.
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.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.
Did you see the reijnders goal and the hole in the defense in that situation. That shit was shambolicSuzuki sold them single-handedly, otherwise they were solid. Fuck that guy
My point is that we need better roster if we fire on all fronts.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.