Claudio Marchisio (65 Viewers)

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I'd like to know what Marchisio was meant to be doing in the game.

I don't buy the ghost stuff. He plays different roles from much the same position and sometimes he's heavily involved and sometimes he's not, but you can always be confident that he's doing what has been asked of him.

Last night I thought he looked lost for long periods of the game, which is not like him and very unusual for an intelligent player.

You have to wonder what exactly Conte had asked him to do or if Bayern were doing something so drastically different to what Juve expected them to do that Marchisio and Conte were caught out.

He wasn't moving wide to confront Lahm much (until the second half where Juve changed to something quite close to a 4-4-2 with Marchisio playing almost as a LM). He wasn't really getting close to Schweinsteiger. He also wasn't prepared to drop deep to receive the ball and start the play, which is what he normally does quite a lot in games where Pirlo is being closed down a lot.

Rather peculiar, all in all.
 

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Red said:
I'd like to know what Marchisio was meant to be doing in the game.

I don't buy the ghost stuff. He plays different roles from much the same position and sometimes he's heavily involved and sometimes he's not, but you can always be confident that he's doing what has been asked of him.

Last night I thought he looked lost for long periods of the game, which is not like him and very unusual for an intelligent player.

You have to wonder what exactly Conte had asked him to do or if Bayern were doing something so drastically different to what Juve expected them to do that Marchisio and Conte were caught out.

He wasn't moving wide to confront Lahm much (until the second half where Juve changed to something quite close to a 4-4-2 with Marchisio playing almost as a LM). He wasn't really getting close to Schweinsteiger. He also wasn't prepared to drop deep to receive the ball and start the play, which is what he normally does quite a lot in games where Pirlo is being closed down a lot.

Rather peculiar, all in all.
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I was also really confused as to what his role was too. Marchisio's biggest strengths tend to be his work rate and his intelligence as you said.

But he didn't offer Peluso much protection on Robben when it was clear he was being shown to the byline so he was also going to have to pull back and play a pass out. He didn't track Lahm much as you said and he didn't drop deep to help Pirlo out when he was in possession.

The only thing I saw him do was make long runs ahead of the centre forwards a few times. This was only spotted a few times in my opinion because the ball rarely got played forward and we kept losing the ball deep in our half meaning that he was out of the game at that point because he was too far ahead of the play having made a forward run.

As for the comments on Marchisio being afforded as much first team football as he has because he is a youth product. Ranieri never afforded that treatment to someone like Giovinco but he always fielded Marchisio and use to rave about how good he was/is due to his ability to carry out a gameplan and his tactical awareness.
 
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