Draw away to Fiorentina is good, but its frustrating considering we were a few minutes away from 3 pts. Legro played well, but what a stupid thing to do. It was clearly intentional, and totally unneccessary. I thought the defense played well overall. Gyrgera was solid, Molinaro was ok and Chiellini was a wall. Id rather see him at lb though, if it means more support down the flanks.
Nocerino needs to improve his passing. If he can do that, and maintain everything else he is already doing, he will be a very good player for us. Almiron, average, he needs to do more than just make passes to open players. Brazzo works hard at both ends of the pitch, but doesn't have the flair or crossing Camo/Marchionni offer. Nedved was average in the 1st half, but in the 2nd, where he played in a more central AM position, I thought he did very well, and we started to have more scoring chances.
Ranieri, I thought his decision to sub Nedved was a poor 1, and it showed since we didn't threaten them for the rest of match. Although Palladino did a decent job coming in late in the game, I would have left Nedved on and played Palladino upfront.
Iaquinta played well. He works hard for every ball, and once we started to play balls to him into space, he opened the Viola defence with is pace. Trezeguet, hard to critique him since he know the nature of his game. He had 2 decent chances though.
Im still not convinced in our ability, and I think we have been extremely lucky so far this season, considering the injuries and average performances. Once Camo and Marchionni are back, Im sure we will start to create more scoring chances, instead of playing counter attacking football for 90 minutes.
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