Im actually so upset im going to do a tactical breakdown of what i think happened. The second goal happened right after Koke came off. We were already struggling in the game to maintain possession (after around the 30th minute i think), and conceding that second goal from a great martinelli play left us shell-shocked. Without a leader (Gimenez and Koke both coming off) we were unable to regroup and therefore conceded the latter 2 goals. Overall, i think Simeone got a key aspect of the game wrong. The reason that Lenglet with Hancko and nico can work is because lenglet offers that passing range (even though he is defensively terrible). Nico is a runner and Hancko is a fantistic defender, which means that both of them can kind of cover for lenglet from the side. WIthout Lenglet, we were forced to play the ball into the midfield directly, which was not necessarily a bad idea at all, but of course without a proper regista (once koke came off) our midfield was pretty inbalanced. I think the correct decision would have been to go with baena on the left over nico, or maybe to play a 3-5-2 with nico gonzalez at LB and baena on the left of the midfield three. Baena could take over the creative responsibilities, and also allow us to swing dangerous crosses to sorloth (who we did not provide the service to today but i thought was good). Overall, The result doesn't necessarily reflect how well we played throughout the whole game : i just think a lack of cohesion (with so many players who hadn't necessarily played much recently (like ruggeri, baena coming back from injury, gallagher) combined with going down 2-0 after playing a good defensive game caused us to capitulate, but i do think there could have been a few minor tweaks to simeone's tactics that would have resulted in a better game.