Football Special Report: Flop players of Serie A round 18
Where there were some outstanding performers in Italy yesterday, status quo was maintained by some truly ugly performances. After all, one person's loss is another person's gain.
Bettor.com now identifies the players who made headlines for wrong reasons:
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Clarence-Seedorf-c9275 (AC Milan)
Nicknamed ‘Slowdorf’ by the Rossoneri faithful, AC Milan midfielder had yet another atrocious outing. Just why Massimiliano Allegri is so adamant on playing him is beyond comprehension.
The Dutch legend is capable of much more than what was on display. His poor passes and lazy attitude often resulted in Milan losing possession. Clearly, Seedorf is past it. When http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mathieu-Flamini-c24685 return from their respective injuries,
Allegri must send Seedorf to the closest retirement house.
Felipe Melo (Juventus FC)
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Felipe-Melo-c13535 would do well to star in the next Hollywood action movie. The Brazilian landed a perfect Kung-Fu kick on Massimo Paci’s face in the first half – for a while, we thought he had taken Paci’s head off. The fact that the kick was delivered while
Melo was on the ground adds further glitter to the skill on exhibition.
Sadly for Melo, Juventus are not a martial arts team. Luigi Del Neri’s men are footballers. The Brazilian was given a straight red card and that was the least referee could do. Until that point in time, the score line read 0 – 0 and Juve were favourites
to win three precious points. Needless to say, Parma took complete advantage of their numerical superiority and thrashed the Bianconeri 4 – 1.
Marek Hamsik (SSC http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Napoli-c40003)
The Slovakian has been one of the best midfielders in peninsula this season. Hamsik had scored 7 goals in 17 appearances, that too from the midfield. Partenopei required the talisman to deliver yet again at San Siro.
However, the night belonged to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 Milan as Azzurri were outclassed by the more energetic opponents. Napoli no. 17 was anonymous on the night, and on the rare occasions he had possession, he looked overly cautious and out of place. The
talismanic midfielder must improve on this showing if Napoli are to finish in Serie A top four.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marco-Rossi-c23739 (CFC Genoa)
Rossoblu skipper makes it on our flops of the round list – not a captain’s performance by any means was it? Genoa leader’s most obvious contribution was missing two glorious goal scoring opportunities. Apart from that, Rossi was fairly anonymous for most
of the game.
Il Grifone, owing much to President Enrico Preziosi’s European ambitions, spent heavily on squad reinforcements earlier in the summer. The results have been on the contrary. Players like Rossi must pull up their socks if they are to dream of Europe in an
ultra competitive league.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Andrea-Dossena-c5683 (SSC Napoli)
Dossena was poor yesterday. In fact, ‘downright atrocious’ would justly explicate his performance. The author can’t remember a single thing positive about Dossena’s performance. Had the wing-back played half decently, Napoli could have drawn the game; the
crosses for first two goals were delivered from his side of the pitch.
Partenopei simply can’t challenge for Scudetto with the likes of Dossena taking a starting role at the club.
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