Grand Theft Parma
By: Steven | November 1st, 2007I thought I had seen a couple of bad Palermo-matches this season, but i haven’t seen a worse one than the one yesterday. Parma scored in the 3th fuckin’ minute, thanks to the defense not remembering that the 20.30 whistle means the game has started. Corner + ball + Morrone = 0-1. The next 84 minutes were like lookin’ at two old guys trying to beat the shit out of each other with a 15 feet-distance between them. I’ll give you some statistics:
Ball Possession: 63,7% Palermo versus 36,3% Parma
Crosses: 45 versus 21
Passes: 529 versus 301
Fouls against: 25 versus 15
You know what that means? That means that you should’ve been the better team. What I saw was a possible Champions League-candidate showing nothing against a team that’s battling the relegation zone. Parma was the better team yesterday, and they really deserved to take the three points back to Emilia. But an undeserved penalty in the 87th minute gave Palermo one point. More than they deserved, less than expected.
When your team almost can’t compete with teams that are in the bottom five, there needs to be some action. Yesterday, there was no fuckin’ midfield. I love Jankovic and he has shown some glimpses of talent lately, but yesterday showed us why the kid isn’t getting a starting spot. I don’t think there was anyone worse than him yesterday. I’m still too pissed to be reasonable about all this, so I’ll just quote Ricci:
The midfield right now is fucking terrible. I hope Zampa goes for something big. Like Tiago Mendes big. Or Moutinho. I know that I’m thinking very, very optimistically right now but we are in dire straits. We need someone immediately.
Standings
1.Inter 24 (+15)
2.Roma 21 (+9)
3.Juventus 20 (+11)
4.Fiorentina 20 (+10)
5.Udinese 18 (+0)
6.Atalanta 15 (+1)
7.SSC Napoli 14 (+5)
8.Catania 14 (+1)
9.Palermo 14 (+0)
Summary
We need to get ourselves back on track. Sunday we’ll be meeting Genoa in Genova, and I believe this to be a key match. If we win, we can start with a clean conscience again, but if we lose again…Genoa will leap over us, Milan might as well do the same thing, Napoli’s meeting Reggina and can leave us behind and Colantuono might be out for good. Let’s hope they win, because I can even see Zamparini bring in Ficcadenti to replace Baldy…
I got one more thing before I’m off. The Barbera-crowd booed our incompetent players off the field yesterday, and good old Andrea Barzagli had this to say about it to Channel 4:
“I’m really sick of these fans who come and whistle at us and I hate seeing my teammates going home nearly in tears,” Barzagli declared.
“I’m fed up with appealing to the fans, in fact I’m fed up with everything.
“We are a good side and we showed that this evening and we left the pitch with our heads held high, despite the whistles.
“From now on we are playing only for ourselves when we are at home and we aren’t going to care about anything else.”
Shut
the
fuck
up,
you stupid cry-baby. If you don’t wannabe booed off, start playing to your salary instead of cashing in and sucking away. Good sides might draw against Reggina, Parma and Torino and lose against Empoli, but not against every single one of them in one season. When are you gonna grab the points you need to play in Europe again? Against Juve? Fiorentina? Don’t make me laugh…you need to beat these smaller teams, and that’s it. Sunday, Genoa, 15.00. Put you’re money where your mouth is. We’ll talk after that.
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I love Barzagli, but c’mon! Grow a sack and accept some responsibility! You are our captain!
And one more thing, you can’t handle the pressure from fans and media? Good luck at a bigger club
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Tiago wants out of Italy…no shot
Mourhino? He would bring a sponsor too. hmmmm, we can all dream
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Stop your bitching. You aren’t in as bad a position as Milan. Palermo is my only other Serie A team. They’re doing realitively good compared to Milan. So in that aspect I’m happy. But losing to Parma, man, that sucks. A lot. -_-
I’ll be really fucking pissed if Palermo start to fall like a stone to the bottom of the table as well…Posted from
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Mele, it was a DRAW, not a LOSS..
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Those stats above show a significant favour for the rosanero. If we had that much possession a failed to capitalise it’s quite obvious that there is a lack of creativity in the team.
Both our forwards and our midfielders need to work on creation of opportunities. Creativity, flair and inventiveness is the key here. A bit of smart-arse creativity up front would catch the opposition wrong footed for sure. Inter are a good example of this.
We are a good side, and conservative football is holding us back.
The boys need to start enjoying the game more - and perhaps negative attitudes from the crowd is a factor in preventing this.
Humiliating the team does not achieve anything. Sacking players or getting new blood will not change the team that much.
Palermo is a great squad that needs more cohesion. I say we give them a bit more encouragement. We are not getting our butts kicked every week. And we are not realising our potential. I can only think that positive support can only help.
I believe that a champion team is better than a team of individual champions.
(Heck, remember even Greece won the last Euro Cup … go figure!)
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Yeah but Milan have Kaka, Seedorf, Pirlo etc…Proven players. They will bounce back for sure, I believe they are already on their way to coming back. Milan beat Sampdoria 5-0, I’m not even sure Palermo could beat them 1-0 right now.
Steven, Serie A tv kept cutting out on me. Guess it was the bad wireless connection. How did Miccoli and Cavani play?
My thinking right now is that when Migliaccio comes back Palermo should really switch to a 3-2-3-2. Let the two baldies start taking lives in front of the back 3, that’s the only way to effectively solve the back 4 problem. Cassani/Pisano/Capuano are flat out too much of a liability to have on the field.
————Fontana——————
Zaccardo—-Barzagli—-Rinaudo/Biava
——–Giulio—–Guana————-
Caserta—–Simplicio——Jankovic–
——–Amauri——Miccoli/Cavani—Posted from
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Rob, Parma fielded a very weak side yesterday. Morfeo didn’t even start and 2 huge players Couto and Reginaldo were suspended. We will always dominate the smaller teams because all these teams are gonna do is park the team bus in front and not let Miccoli and Amauri get any space to work magic. It works against top teams routinely (Rangers vs Barca, CL & Milan all year). Palermo need a wide presence so freaking badly it’s not even funny. This way you can spread the play out wide, come back in, go out wide, back in etc. and just wear the hell out of teams. All Palermo do is pass between midfielders like 30 yards out. Completely pointless. Colantuono has to be firm and when he fields the formation - he has to insist players not drift into the middle, and if someone runs into the middle the other players have to act like interchangeable parts.
My point is, possession doesn’t really do anything unless you use it. Palermo had possession yeah, but all they did was just pass back and forth listfully. I watched about 30 minutes of the game and for all our possession we still looked awful. Everytime Parma had a counter, my heart would beat out of my freakin chest. They did 10X more with their 35 percent than we did with our 65.
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Miccoli was pretty ineffective…Cavani, was he even on the field?
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Miccoli and Cavani are the kind of players who need space so I’m not suprised they didn’t do much. The reason Cavani was effective in the Milan and Roma games was because Palermo were mostly working off the counter and could use Cavani’s pace to their advantage. I’d like to see Miccoli drop into the midfield more and run at defenders.
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Ricci, I totally agree with your point about use of possession.
That’s why I think we are in dire need of creativity. But I suppose it takes a very special player to provide that.
Hence, your suggestion of spreading the play out wider is perhaps a more realistic approach.
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Cavani replaced Simplicio, which was the only good thing he did. Miccoli, two shots at goal, must’ve been about it. Not a good performance by those two. BTW, Europeans can’t watch SerieA.tv! What a shame is that!
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A draw to Parma is the equivalent of a loss.
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