Not only did Kulusevski receive an unfair yellow card, but Gervinho was CLEARLY been pulled in the shirt during a counter attack, but the referee let it pass.
The referee also did not allow ANY extra time even if the VAR check took at least 30 sek.
Were going to lose this game. The referee clearly favors Lazio, it's like that the Italian football federation wants them to be in good form before the Europa League matches.
To be honest. Parmas second half was totally horrendous.
Bobby Inglese needs to be benched for the next game. He's CLEARLY out of form. He missed an absolute sitter in the first half. The worst part was that he shot right on the goalkeeper. Like, I get the fact that when you shoot from a distance with power, you would just want to hit the target, but at that distance, at least go for the sides! Or chip..Cornelius had a shot on the target that was blocked by the defender minutes after coming in. He needs to start. I think Inglese needs that to understand that his place is not cemented.
Yeah, a bit worrying that we've lost 3 out of the first 4 games. Definitely looking like more of a relegation dogfight this year.
Our performance against Lazio was definitely worse. We certainly missed Kucka and Grassi in midfield. Karamoh made more of an impact than Gervinho despite being on for only a few minutes. I hope he starts against Sassuolo in the week and the disciplinary issues are done with.
Inglese is definitely out of form, looked fairly clueless last night.
Iacoponi and Hernani were particularly bad. I wish we'd signed another centre back as we are weak there.
the only positives are that there is time to fix stuff and there is more to our game than the 'counter attack and hope for the best' approach of last season. As I say, if we can get Kucka and Grassi back we'll have more quality in the centre of the pack.
From what little commentary I saw and some of the posts after it sounds like we didn't really turn up, it's going to be a long hard slog of a season.... Last year we got some wins that we're not getting this year, and the second half of last season is likely a better reflection of what we're facing.... Unless this new squad is going to gel this could get very ugly very soon.