Banter 2009/2010

Originally Posted by GeoTav

It's all about protecting your young players, taking into consideration the mental aspect of the game ...

Here are the reasons why Albertazzi shouldn't have started:
- a very important game (pressure)
- Palermo is a smart attacking team (did you notice how almost all their chances were where Oddo was ? Not only because of the level of Oddo, but also because they tended to play more on his side)
- the team isn't in a good form

These three reasons just tell you why you shouldn't send a young player for his first game in this one (except for injuries like with De Vito for Jankulovski).

The main problem is that because of our bad results, until we haven't secured our 3rd spot, we shouldn't send the young guys in the battle. If only we had managed to keep the gap between us and Samp/Palermo, we could have sent these young players on pitch without too much pressure and in big games.

So, you mean a young player should be given games when the games are not important more? So little thing young player can get from kind of games, not very different with friendly games.

Protecting the player is a weak alibi IMO. I believe that Leonardo is now more worried and tried to copy-paste Carlo's type to (always) rely on experienced players (read : old players) no matter how bad (form) they are.

That was the best time for Leo to use and test the Primavera player. I don't believe such a statement that an important game like against Palermo (important game but it's not Champions League Final) can destroy young players. The reason behind is that Leo was too afraid, just like Carlo (or probably more) IMO.