I had similar discussion when Sociedad last year. Instead of one match at a time, people are happy with a lose and "assume" that lower teams "on paper" are where to gain points. But you guys forget the more pressure we have the more frozen players' legs would be. PSV lesson was still there.
Sorry I don't buy this at all. After the last important match vs Monaco we will have fucking Milan 3 days later. Somehow 6 days rest versus Lazio is trickier.
Watch we crash out of top 8 and add two additional City matches, eventually out. Want a rest? Do it after we are safe enough. Don't count chickens before hatching. One point against Kusen would be huge because we keep a direct top8 competitor 3 points away from us with two matches left. Let alone three.
This is such a crazy fuckin' overreaction, it's nuts. And you want to mention PSV from 2018? Look at our match day squad from that game. Literally only one player in the 2024-'25 team played in that game (De Vrij) and Lautaro was on the bench. That's it. Those are the only two players still here who were with the team in that game. That was pre-Conte FFS.
And City? You're losing your shit over Inzaghi punting one away game in the Champions League, have you fucking seen City's form in the last 10 games? If we'd had a 10-game run like that this forum would be on DEFCON 1 mode with every player thread being in the Flamers Paradise by this point.
If we miss out on top-8, it's because we failed to beat Sparta and Monaco (at San Siro) in the last two games, and if that happens then we've clearly got other problems to deal with. It won't be because we failed to get a result away to Leverkusen. Leverkusen had won their previous home games as well and that included a 1-0 win over a much-stronger Milan XI than the one we threw out there, and they still had to work harder to get the win against us than they did against Milan.
We take care of business - and we're entirely expected to - we'll get top-8. It's entirely in our control. Fuckin' lose me with this chicken little bullshit. We've won two Scudetti since 2021, we've been in a Champions League final, people need to stop acting like pussies about this team.
EDIT - oh, and by the way, I just want to highlight one other thing written here quickly:
Sorry I don't buy this at all. After the last important match vs Monaco we will have fucking Milan 3 days later. Somehow 6 days rest versus Lazio is trickier.
Granted, we don't know what the table will look like come Feb. 1, but we do know what the table looks like right now:
5. Lazio: 10-1-4 | 31 points | +13 GD (tied on points with Inter)
7. Milan: 6-4-4 | 22 points | +8 GD (-9 on Inter)
I realize the rivalry of course, but what the fuck are we worrying about Milan in any way other than it being a derby match? Because I can tell you that Lazio are rather comfortably ahead of Milan in the table right now. I can tell you that Lazio would move in front of us with a win on Monday head-to-head. I can tell you that the away game to Lazio has generally been a trickier game for us in recent years than playing Milan has (either as the away team or the home team). So even if Inzaghi might subconsciously be giving more weight to the Lazio game given his Laziale background or not, statistically and table-wise speaking, that is the more important game, the "trickier" game of the two right now.
Fucking Milan complex, man. They're having a shit season, they beat us one time in the last seven tries, and they're somehow in our heads here.