I blame De Boer for playing this team after stating we were fully concentrating on this game and not thinking about Juve in his presser.He needed to put his best team here and win this game and go into the Juve game on a 2 game winning streak.It would have been great for our morale and confidence.Instead we head into the Juve game with all the old doubts about our level back.The positivity that came from the late Pescara win is dampened.
The pressure on De Boer has also increased tremendously and a defeat to Juve may cripple his long term viability here.4 matches with 2 defeats and 1 win is a bad record and if it gets worse at the weekend then De Boer is potentially fighting for his job from then onwards.
We have also jeopardised our EL participation because we cannot afford to rest players for 3 tough trips away now.It surely made more sense to not rest players 3 weeks into the season and rest them in November and December.
I liked the substitution De Boer made straight away at half time taking off Brozovic and I feel like he won't play such a crappy team in the EL again and if he does play guys like Ranocchia,Nagatomo,Palacio,Biabiany again then it either means he hasn't learnt his lesson or that the club does not care for the EL and believes it cannot go far in this because some big players were not registered due to FFP.
I do believe De Boer is a fast learner and will not play these certified idiots again.Banega,Icardi,Candreva,Perisic and Miranda need to start in Prague.