Juventus should be beating those teams regardless of what usually happens. We beat Malmo twice the next year.
In the first Galatasary game he benched Marchisio and in the second Gala game he played Pogba who was responsible for the goal as regista. Now I know Pirlo was injured in the second game but surely he should have known better than to play an inexperienced Pogba as a regista when we had Marchisio, Vidal, and Asamoah all available.
Nothing was wrong with the first Benfica game? He started Vucinic over Llorente just due to the fact that he was chasing some useless record. In the next leg again he benched Marchisio who when he brought on created two great chances, One was the Osvaldo goal which I believe was wrongly called offside and the other being a great ball to Licht who completely missed the ball.
Even in the Madrid games he started Marchisio as a right winger/treq.
The biggest reason for his failure in Europe imo was his inability to switch to a 4 man midfield something that Allegri was able to do right away.
I take you never actually watch juventus, only some highlights ?
We had 2 new forwards that season and they had to settle a bit.
We created a large amount of chances, but werent finishing them, which got us to the game in galasataray which was on frozen kebab surface and an absolute shame it was played.
His changes for the benfica game made sense, but the players werent properly set up and fired up for the second leg.
There was nothing wrong with the 3-5-2 under Conte, and Allegri switched to 4-3-1-2 because of injuries and the need to compensate for Pirlo. We are currently using 3-5-2 as the main formation still.
And if you watched the euro's, Conte took a less talented 3-5-2 formation and beat the shit out of Belgium and spain, and would have done the same against Germany if he didnt lose his last player that could pass a ball.
Nope, Conte did nothing wrong, except staying and showing that europe season was just bad luck.
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I think he's going to suffer at Chelsea. Italian players are very committed to a gameplan, because they know it works.
The English however are not used to this and are probably too stupid and coarse (let's just say it like it is) to understand this anyway.
I heard that you can directly apply these concerns to their first friendly.
ALot of individual defensive errors.