He played the majority of this season as the LM...
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No he did not, Hustini. Other than against Inter when he was sacrificed to completely blunt Maicon, he almost always bunched up in the middle to make a midfield trio. Its not an opinion, its where he played. I saw it with my own eyes...
Just what were you watching, then?...
I can't say that he was being played out of position, per se, as Lo-Pan had mentioned. He tended to drift towards the center of the pitch more often than not.
Wk 34: juve v catania (2-2)
Wk 33: viola v juve (0-0)
Wk 32: juve v genoa(3-2)
Wk 31: roma v juve (0-2)
Wk 26: lecce v juve (2-0)
Wk 25: juve v inter (1-0)
Wk 24: Cagliari v juve (1-3)
Wk 23: Palermo v Juve (2-1)
Wk 22: Juve v Udinese (1-2)
Wk 21: Samp v Juve (0-0)
Wk 18: Juve v Parma (1-4)…This is when Melo was sent off with 3 game suspension…next 2 games Marchisio plays CM, SIssoko 1 game.
Wk 16: Juve v Lazio (2-1)
Wk 14: Juve v Viola (1-1)
Wk 13: genoa v juve (0-2)
Wk 12: juve v roma (1-1)
Wk 11: Brescia v juve (1-1)
Wk 10: Juve v Cesena (3-1)
Wk9: Milan v Juve (1-2)
Wk8: Bologna v juve (0-0)
Wk 7: Juve v Lecce (4-0)
Wk 6: Inter v Juve (0-0)
21 games Claudio Marchisio played as a LEFT MID. Don't tell me you saw him drift to the middle and can't call him a LM as a result because you could say the same about Krasic on the right drifting to the middle in attack and by default that means he never played RM? Please. In a 442 that DN used 99% of this season when Marchisio was on the left he was a Left Mid...no way you can twist that.
32 games played - 21 at left mid = 11 games he played as a CM, yes a REAL CM...not a LM that "drifted" to the middle therefore "not being able to be classified as a LM"
Maybe we should have played Melo at LM then, since he is the better player then we wouldn't have had a LM "go missing".