Vincenzo Italiano

I don't know.

I think it's very telling that Vincenzo Italiano has not played him because I think if he was deserving of playing, he'd be playing a lot more.

The fact that he's not really played at all since the Ahmed game up until today, I think it's telling.

I mean, he was okay, but he was okay and he I

But worth mentioning, Besiktas did not start the game with on paper their best 11.

In fact Besiktas actually started the game with many what many would call a B team, some might even say a C team and we can have a look at that in a minute here.

But really Besiktas surprising maybe a little bit and our coach Vincenzo Italiano explained before the game that the reason why he went with a heavily rotated squad was because he doesn't believe that 72 hours was enough time for the majority of players to recover from Monday's game against Trabzon.

So this was the big starting lineup against Crystal Palace.

Indeed.

And as for Vincenzo Italiano, he's fifth in the Turkish league, five wins out of eight, three losses.

But he's very, very highly rated.

In Turkey, I remember I was there in Istanbul for three weeks in the summer, and already you heard people saying, this guy is the best coach in the league, and it's not even close.

Also, Beşiktaş fans to a lesser extent as well.

I mean, we've not had a lot of success in the last five years and it's funny because now we play well under Vincenzo Italiano and all of a sudden you play a couple of good games and everyone's expecting the world straight away and you forget to enjoy things and I always say The good times are not worth it if you haven't experienced the bad times because that really makes you appreciate the highlights.

And that's just like in life.

If you don't know, you will never know true happiness without knowing sorrow, right? And it's the same in football.

And he predicted against Hoffenheim that it's going to be a high-scoring game.

as well and it was it was a 2-3 win at the time he predicted that he said you know i think we'll win and it'll be with a lot of goals uh i think you definitely have a chance tomorrow because we are coming off of a game on monday which i thought was a weird decision by the turkish football federation to let us play on monday i felt like sunday would have made more sense Obviously we came off a game on Thursday but this gives us very little time to recover for this game and we were already looking a little bit...

I wouldn't say we looked fatigued necessarily against Trabzonspor because we pushed for 90 minutes and that's the style we play under Vincenzo Italiano, very intense, high pressing style.

But you could notice in the deciding moments, the final third, there was this little edge we were missing.

run for a new coach, right? Yeah.

well yeah also that also you could be like do you want a new manager bounce because we've got some lovely games coming up for you exactly that's a very good point actually but I do think they will stick with him but I think this project this project this rain is not going to work and at some point they're going to have to replace him But yeah, who do you replace him with? Ideally, you go back in the time machine and get Vincenzo Italiano or you, you know.

Do

you know what? I can see them going for Grosso.

I mean, I don't really know what to tell you.

What did you expect? Vincenzo Italiano was literally there, but you copped out.

He went to Besiktas because he didn't want to invest.

And I get that from a financial point of view.

Not a great deal, but a little bit.

They are managed by Vincenzo Italiano.

No guesses where he comes from.

He is the former manager of Fiorentina and Bologna.

They are in right now sharing the first place spot with other teams with six points.

That is a very good start for Besiktas and Besiktas coach Vincenzo Italiano.

So, also, I want to give a mention, kudos to Arda Turan's team.

Shakhtar Donetsk, they won their first match in the Champions League.

I don't know what it was.

ready to sign.

Like I've, I still, especially a guy that Allegri is literally talk shit about you guys.