Before you talk about possession I want to remind you that Atleti is ranked 16 in La Liga with ball possession. They know how to take their chances, and create them. Very effective team.
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[CL] Atletico Madrid 1-0 JUVENTUS (October 1st 2014) (5 Viewers)
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The entire season Tevez has played with a drawn back role and it worked just fine but only today that role was pretty much useless as there was no way for him to rush into space or even see any space. The times that Llorente touched the ball close to the area he needed Tevez close to him to recover any ball but he was far away. The only times it happened it was Vidal who got it but he was extremely wasteful.
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It seems that people forgot that it took Real a moment of magic by Di Maria to win the CL last season.
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It seems that people forgot that it took Real a moment of magic by Di Maria to win the CL last season.
You do realize olympiakos beat them right? They aren't untouchable or else we shouldn't have bothered to fly over and strain our players before Roma, we didn't attack enough or sit back enough, we let them put us how they wanted, we could just have easily sat back and said, we are 3 points ahead come and get it, instead we played like we were at home and 3 points behind, and doing so put ourselves under pressure
No team in the World, no selection of tactics and players should keep us or teams even 75% as good as us from having a shot. Period.
The result was acceptable, our quite frankly pathetic attacking display was not. But then this is nothing new and we all know we're missing the forwards to fix this particular problem.
The result was acceptable, our quite frankly pathetic attacking display was not. But then this is nothing new and we all know we're missing the forwards to fix this particular problem.
No team is untouchable and yes I know that Olympiakos beat them and scored three times. I also know that they've beaten Real Madrid twice already this season. I didn't watch their game against Olympiakos so I don't know how they approached it but I think it's safe to say they were probably more adventurous and open than they were against us and the other big teams they play. Plus Simeone wasn't on the bench for that game.
Have you even read my post? have I mentioned that they are perfect to the point, that they cannot concede goals, what the hell? You have written your post like i've said that they were amazing today, that they have played super football, because if you really really really push your brains to the limit, and read again, you will see, that I have written that they were luckier, how the hell could they be amazing, if they had 2 shot on the target?
And about their game against Olympiacos, you are saying like no team have a bad game, and also like they were playing the same tactics that they played against us, really clap clap. comparing two totally different games.
And I really belive that Atletico are not better than us, because they certainly didn't prove that in today's match.
And about their game against Olympiacos, you are saying like no team have a bad game, and also like they were playing the same tactics that they played against us, really clap clap. comparing two totally different games.
And I really belive that Atletico are not better than us, because they certainly didn't prove that in today's match.
Yeah, in retrospect, this may have been a game where Juve would have been better off playing Llorente and Tevez right up against the opposition defence in the way they did last season.
Even if it still would have been hard for the forwards to do much, playing against two genuine strikers could have pulled Atletico's defence narrower, which might have opened some space out wide.
I'll be interested to see what Juve come up with in the second game against Atletico. Real Madrid and Barca have had umpteen goes at figuring out how to beat Atletico and they still haven't been able to come up with a plan that consistently works.
Allegri, over the course of a few games against Barca when at Milan, gradually crafted an excellent plan of how to stop them and that has become the blueprint for everyone to follow.
Atletico are clearly at the opposite end of the spectrum from Barca when it comes to tactics, but I'd expect Allegri figure out a way to be more penetrating in the second game.
I think I'd be targetting the space behind Ansaldi. I'd like to see Juve trying some of the classic diagonal balls over the top for Lichtsteiner to burst on to.
Getting players moving at pace from deep is always what I want to see when trying to break through a tough defence.
Even if all you do is scare Atletico into adjusting to block that, it might take a man out of the middle of the pitch and give Juve the chance to penetrate somewhere else.
Even if it still would have been hard for the forwards to do much, playing against two genuine strikers could have pulled Atletico's defence narrower, which might have opened some space out wide.
I'll be interested to see what Juve come up with in the second game against Atletico. Real Madrid and Barca have had umpteen goes at figuring out how to beat Atletico and they still haven't been able to come up with a plan that consistently works.
Allegri, over the course of a few games against Barca when at Milan, gradually crafted an excellent plan of how to stop them and that has become the blueprint for everyone to follow.
Atletico are clearly at the opposite end of the spectrum from Barca when it comes to tactics, but I'd expect Allegri figure out a way to be more penetrating in the second game.
I think I'd be targetting the space behind Ansaldi. I'd like to see Juve trying some of the classic diagonal balls over the top for Lichtsteiner to burst on to.
Getting players moving at pace from deep is always what I want to see when trying to break through a tough defence.
Even if all you do is scare Atletico into adjusting to block that, it might take a man out of the middle of the pitch and give Juve the chance to penetrate somewhere else.
