This is what Buffon said yesterday:
“Here (in Italy) you need physical strength and a bit of quality, but in Europe everyone is very organised and you risk some costly slip-ups.
“We saw with Inter that if you don’t have a truly strong organised system, you won’t be able to dominate teams on your travels.
“The only Italian side who can do that are Milan and that’s why they traditionally do so well in this competition.”
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Buffon said the same thing Diego did, but Gigi didn't mention Ferrara. Buffon also says there that we're not organized.
Diego plays bad and should look at himself first. Yes, I accept that.
But the same goes for 90% of our team and our stars. It simply can't be a coincidence that all of them play bad and all of them look so lost on the pitch.
Maybe they actually are looking at their bad performances and trying to fix that, but they simply can't do shit when there is no plan and no organization.
Ranieri didn't get so much shit because the guy actually had some kind of organized system and he had a plan. Maybe an ugly system, a 4-4-2 with lots of defending, but he knew what he wanted and especially against the big teams we performed well and managed to neutralize them. That alone implies that Ranieri was studying the opponents well before we played them.
Ferrara is obviously not doing even that and if players start calling on his tactics so early, then you know that you have a big problem.
Look at the situation with Del Piero yesterday. Ferrara tried a 4-3-1-2 and it failed. Then he tried a 4-2-3-1 that worked.
And every tactic, no matter if it's 4-4-2 or 3-5-2 etc will work if it suits the players. The 4-2-3-1 didn't work because it was 4-2-3-1, it worked because the players who played in that tactic were well suited for it.
Now Ciro took out one important factor in that 4-2-3-1 (Giovinco) and replaced him with a player who can't play there and admitted himself that he can't play there. Automatically the tactic fails when you don't have the needed players for that tactic.
But Ciro was afraid to switch back to the tactic that failed, and he decides to go with the tactic that worked, but with players who won't work in that tactic.
Absolutely no organization. Players aren't blind. They worked under many coaches. If they come out publicly criticizing, then i believe that they tried to solve the problems internally, but it didn't work.
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Nice perspective there + rep. But we all know patience runs out quickly at a club like Juventus.
"tactical mindset"
