Alright, I really have something to get off my chest today, after everything I heard/saw yesterday night. I know how Footy-GAF is, how everybody reacts and how people usually "support" other teams in games like yesterday, so I wasn't actually surprised to see a lot of "Forza Milan" etc. before the game and a bunch of "useless cunts" after. So that was pretty much people who don't usually give a damn about the Serie A because, well, it's the Serie A.
But, to the people who actually cares about Italy and honestly were looking forward to Milan getting through the quarterfinals and then shit all over us: this team, this particular team that you saw yesterday night, three-four months ago was in the relegation zone of the Serie A. As you all know how bad Serie A is, you get the picture.
Last night, after 150 minutes with 30 left on the clock, we were drawing 2-2 vs Barcelona, which still is one of the top 2-3 teams out there and happens to have the best player of the world (in my opinion, but that's not the point) upfront.
I knew that this team couldn't handle Barcelona and especially Camp Nou, it was pretty obvious. I said this the day after the first match, Zapata and Mexes just can't have two matches like that in the CL because they're not as good as one would expect after seeing that game. The rest of the team simply doesn't have enough experience.
We have a completely different mentality from last year, we decided to have more youngsters in the team and let all of the once great players leave because they didn't had a place in this squad anymore. If we had (and this is something that I hate to say) Gattuso, Nesta and Seedorf (as much as I hated the guy. Also, I'm not counting Thiago Silva and Ibra) yesterday night we would've lost 1-0.
Instead, we had: Abbiati (a swing and a miss, usually), Abate (knows how to run, and doesn't even know how to write the word "cross"), Constant (who was in the relegation zone last year with Genoa), Mexes (if he's on his period then fuck everything), Zapata (was in a team that eventually got relegated last year), Ambrosini (too old for this stuff), Montolivo (still unexperienced), Flamini (as long as you ask him to break legs everything's good. Otherwise, God help us), El Shaarawy (born in 1992) who led the team the whole fall and now is kinda resting himself, Niang (born in 1994) who is having a bad shape period, Boateng (who usually gets one game right and seventeen wrong).
Now tell me how people could expect us to win or to go through the QF without conceding one goal or two.
Or tell me another team that did what we did this year, and by that I mean: letting all of our experienced players go at first then selling our two best players plus another really good one, fight in the relegation zone for two months, get back on track, get to the 3rd place of the table, win 2-0 at home vs the best team of the world using a bunch of youngsters and inexperienced players then draw 2-2 against said team with 30 minutes left.
I'm not mad at our team or, say, Niang. We won the first match, we lost the second one, again, vs Barcelona. With this team I couldn't ask for anything more.
Where do you live/what's the time?
Oh I'm guessing in the US?
Italy.
Are you really going to miss your team going through the QF?
Nah, a Martini made me stay awake during the whole game.
