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FRANCISCO CONCEI\u00c7\u00c3O – 5.<\/strong> Got the ball in decent positions on the right a few times but simply didn\u2019t do much of anything with them, which has become a trend. Did have one nice curler that went a little bit wide that could\u2019ve made it 3-1. He\u2019s got to find more end product, or the comparisons with Milos Krasic will start coming thicker and faster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
WESTON McKENNIE – 6.<\/strong> Didn\u2019t play as a pure striker, especially after the red, but in the first half he was effective at pulling an overeager Davinson S\u00e1nchez out of position to create lanes for runners. His one-two pass with Koopmeiners for Juve\u2019s second goal was beautiful. He even ended up leading the team in blocks once they were pressed back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
KENAN YILDIZ – 5.5.<\/strong> Looked tired and a little bit gimpy, grabbing at his ankle and knee a lot after an early tackle. Had one nice-looking shot that was deflected behind, and did come up with four dribbles and three key passes, but his oomph was missing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
FEDERICO GATTI – 4.5.<\/strong> Blocked a pair of shots but never seemed to be in a groove. Didn\u2019t look on the same page with Kelly, who he\u2019s never played next to in this particular system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
JUAN CABAL – 2.<\/strong> I started doing these ratings full-time in the 2017-18 season, and I had never given anything below a 3 until now\u2014and that included the game where instead of talking about how bad Leonardo Bonucci had been I just added a GIF of a dumpster on fire. This was an absolute farce of a performance. He fared even worse than Cambiaso did against Yilmaz, with his mistakes directly leading to two of the four goals Galatasaray scored in the second half. Got two yellows in an eight-minute span after being sent on to protect Cambiaso from the same fate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
FILIP KOSTIC – 5.5.<\/strong> Basically served as a body attempting to keep Galatasaray from running even more riot. It\u2019s not really his fault, once he came on Gala completely dominated things, and he never had any opportunity to do anything with the ball. He only got to attempt<\/em> five passes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
FABIO MIRETTI – NR.<\/strong> Here\u2019s how bad it got by the end: Miretti had almost as many clearances in 11 minutes (3) as Locatelli did in the entire match (4).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
LO\u00cfS OPENDA – NR.<\/strong> Tried to find any sort of space to try to charge through the Gala defense, but only touched the ball four times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
It looked as though Luciano Spalletti had really thought this through after losing Jonathan David to injury in the lead-up to this game. McKennie looked as good as any false nine could have in the first half, and the team deserved their lead at the break.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Everything went wrong in the second half. I\u2019ve praised what Spalletti has done from the mental side of things for this team for weeks, but whether it was the pressure of the moment, the pressure of the crowd\u2014which was absolutely seething\u2014or the pressure on the field as Galatasaray ramped up the pressure in the second half, they collapsed. Even in the first half we saw some mental errors, like Yildiz\u2019s turnover that led to the first goal. Hopefully this will be a learning experience for some of the younger players, but, as Spalletti said postgame, they\u2019re in an arena where they have to play spot-on to get things done, and the second half was anything but.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Spalletti isn\u2019t immune to criticism either. When the game was still on Gala were showing some holes that Juve might\u2019ve been able to shoot a counterattack through\u2014the kind of game that Openda\u2019s skill set is made for. But by the time he actually put the Belgian on, the horses weren\u2019t just out of the barn, they were in another farm the next county over. It was clear that the game had been shifting to the hosts even before Cabal was sent off, and it felt like there needed to be a shift earlier than there was. Perhaps Spalletti was gun-shy because he only had two sub windows left after Bremer had had to give way in the first half. Regardless, this was one of those games we\u2019ve seen on occasion where Spalletti simply doesn\u2019t read it well, or if he has he hasn\u2019t acted properly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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He\u2019s going to have some shifting to do with both Cambiaso and<\/em> Cabal out for the second leg (and Cabal would\u2019ve been suspended anyway because the first card put him over the suspension threshold). He\u2019ll need to hope he gets some players back\u2014especially Bremer\u2014in order to pull off something special and get back into this tie.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Galatasaray come to the J Stadium for the second leg on Wednesday. In order to have any hope of advancing, Juve will need to win that game by at least three goals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Before that, Como come to town, and Juve will look to avenge their loss from earlier in the season and keep their pace in the race for the top four, with a big showdown at Roma looming after the second leg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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