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It's funny because, a few seconds before that, Trevisani said: "... this corner kick reminds me of something... what if "la prende Vecino"?
Then Vecino "la riprende" and he goes totally berserk (who didn't?), while Adani screams about "la garra charrua" and its mysticism.
Easter egg: in the heat of the moment, Trevisani suddenly mentions Berti ("There's Nicola Berti...") before getting interrupted by Adani, who speaks over him.
Maybe Nicolino stormed into the commentary box, surely he was involved in a mad and not-sober celebration.
Still cannot realize how terrible that Tottenham defence was in the Vecino goal.
The set piece is essentially split into two areas:
Area A: This is where the balls goes from Candreva's corner. We have de Vrij, Skriniar and Miranda. Three center backs, who are typically considered dangerous for set pieces. And de Vrij in particular is known for being an aerial threat on both ends
Tottenham's response? Just three people on them. And I think it's Eric Dier on de Vrij who simply stares at the incoming ball and has no clue where Il Muro Nuovo is. Basically you'd expect higher concentration in both the mental aspect but also in terms of people. Tottenham was left naked here.
Area B: We have another three players here. It's Vecino, Icardi and I think the other one is Keita Balde. They have three players man marking these people and three spare ones right in front of the GK. All concentrated in that area, expecting a cross in the first post.
They have zero players sitting on the line and there is no one in the second post, while we have Valero lurking outside the area on the other side and they have Eriksen sitting on the edge of the area, centrally, but on the other side of where our spare attacker is. If it were D'Ambrosio instead of Valero there, you'd expect him to make a run in the second post, being all free.
Now what Tottenham does is... Ball goes to Area B, Lucas Moura, one of the three stranded players of Area A, just leaves, while Aurier who man marks Vecino decides there's no point anymore and Vecino is free, between 4 Tottenham players who cannot reach him. And of course de Vrij gets a free header.
There's like 6 defensive mistakes there. And this team is supposed to be the 2nd best oiled machine in the Premier League after Man City.
For those who can't count:
1) Setup mistake #1, three players doing nothing in front of the keeper
2) Setup mistake #2, bad judgement of who the main offensive threat is (the 3 CBs)
3) Setup mistake #3, we have a free player on the other side of the pitch and they have an additional 4th player, doing nothing, sitting at a very wrong spot.
4) Man marker leaves de Vri unattended.
5) Defensive player abandons his post like his life depended on it, even crushed onto Miranda while running away from the situation.
6) Man marker leaves Vecino unattended.
This was really amateur stuff. And thank fuck for that.