[QUOTE=āEsteban de la Sexface, post: 969682, member: 2695ā]Nah, Iām rating him from watching him in Seria A. I used to like him, he just never ever lived up to his promise for me. I wanted him to succeed at Real Madrid too, but he flopped.
If ye donāt dominate possession tonight ye could be in for a right chasing. Flooding midfield is the only hope, forget about playing two up front. get 2 sets of legs in alongside Pirlo. Leave Ballotelli do his thing for an hour and the re-evaluate. 4-5-1. If a goal down after 60 mins then you could look at another forward for one of the two in midfield.
Montolivo is a huge miss.[/QUOTE]
Have you watched him in Serie A? He was one of the best performers in the league this season and has been when fit over the last 6 seasons. The last thing we want to do is invite Uruguay on to us, we need to go out there and try to win this match. If it was me personally I wouldnāt bother with Balotelli after his gutless second half against Costa Rica.
[QUOTE=āEsteban de la Sexface, post: 969720, member: 2695ā]if Cassano starts tonight, Italy lose.
(watch Cassano score a fucking hattrick now)[/QUOTE]
I feel you are judging Cassano rather harshly Esteban. His job is to create chances for others which I think he does very well. Heās also very good at dragging defenders out of position with those dinky off the ball runs.
I just donāt rate him like ye do, Gary. Nothing personal against any Italians or anything like that, he had his chances and has never done it. He is handy, Iāll give ye that, but I canāt see der bombers optimism in him, I donāt think heāll be the difference against Uruguay.
Prandelliās faith with Balotelli and leaving the likes of Destro and Rossi at home comes back to haunt him. He signed an extension before the World Cup but hopefully heās gone, his decision making has became more and more bizarre the longer he has been in the job. His treatment of the likes of Criscito and Rossi has been disgraceful. Coaches live and die by their decisions and Prandelli got it wrong, wrong, wrong.
Itās the same culture that has led to a failure of a nation of mammy boys that live at home until they are 40. Never prepared to give youth a go. Always the same old negative football from a grizzly collection of cynical veterans.
Putting his supreme faith in a clown like Balotelli, completely got the line-up wrong against Costa Rica, got his substitutes badly wrong in both games.
[QUOTE=āIl Bomber Destro, post: 969951, member: 2533ā]He is.
Putting his supreme faith in a clown like Balotelli, completely got the line-up wrong against Costa Rica, got his substitutes badly wrong in both games.[/QUOTE]
Italy donāt have near the quality of player they had in previous tournaments. Itās a very average team. Prandelli was right to persist with Balotelli after his good performance against England.
If there is blame to be apportioned in the Italian camp it should be at their FA for forcing the team to travel thousands of unnecessary extra air miles during the tournament by basing them in Rio despite all their matches being in the north of Brazil.
[QUOTE=āThe Scouse Cafu, post: 969972, member: 2660ā]Italy donāt have near the quality of player they had in previous tournaments. Itās a very average team. Prandelli was right to persist with Balotelli after his good performance against England.
If there is blame to be apportioned in the Italian camp it should be at their FA for forcing the team to travel thousands of unnecessary extra air miles during the tournament by basing them in Rio despite all their matches being in the north of Brazil.[/QUOTE]
Italy should be getting out of that group, we were wholly unimpressive in qualifying and the reason we were in such a difficult position to begin with was because Prandelli couldnāt find a win in his last two qualifying games against Armenia and Denmark. His code of ethics is a laughing stock when he allows certain players carte blanche to offend and others receiving maximum discipline. He persisted with guys like Osvaldo all through qualifying when he had shown he didnāt have the temperament or discipline for it much like Balotelli, a lazy self-centred clown. We went to a World Cup without a recognised left back in the squad and only two out and out strikers, one of which is a disease called Balotelli.
Balotelli and Prandelli will rightly get slaughtered in the media, hopefully weāll have a new manager in who will assign him to the dustbin. Bring in Spaletti.
