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Alen

Ѕenior Аdmin
Apr 2, 2007
53,998
Goals scored by midfielders - Diego is there third
Assists - Diego
Successfull passes/Attacking passes - Diego in the top
Successful Crosses - Diego in the top, plus he's not even playing on the wing so often
Fouls won - Diego, in the top
Shots on target - Diego

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No to mention that he has bad shaped midfield behind him and no good fullbacks on the sides provided with no width. Next season if we pull good moves (and I'm pretty sure we will), he's going to be our key player.
And why do you think this is the case, Dule?

Is it because he has a free role and he has the ball all the time? If we had a good team next to Diego, Diego's numbers were gonna be much lower than they are now.
Look at the end product he has because if you look at the numbers you might get the impression that he's the best in serie A.

Goals scored by midfielders - Diego is there third
And yet, we're talking about only 5 goals. In other teams the attackers score the goals. With us it's not the same because the attackers don't get the service. Who should give the service and isn't doing that?

Assists - Diego
Most of those are corner kicks and free kicks which our tall defenders made into goals. Diego has 6 assists and Juve scored 46 goals. Only in the opening 7-8 rounds, before his injury, Camo had 4 assists and those were from open play.

Successfull passes/Attacking passes - Diego in the top
Normal. Since he has to get every ball when we attack, it's normal for him to have many passes. But I wonder how many of those were useful.

Successful Crosses - Diego in the top, plus he's not even playing on the wing so often
Corner kicks and free kicks. At least 90% of those crosses come from corner kicks and free kicks. In Milan, for example, you can see different players taking free kicks and corner kicks, depending on the side and the distance. With us it's only Diego.
Fouls won - Diego, in the top
Yes, this can not be taken away from him. He gets fouled a lot. He should get rid of the ball faster if he doesn't want to be fouled so much.
Shots on target - Diego
I don't think these are positive stats. He took so many shots and scored so little goals. His shots on target are usually terrible. Weak shots, easily saved.

All these stats show that every single thing in Juve has to go through Diego. We can see the end product and how good Juve are and we can conclude that Diego isn't doing his job well. In last year's team, without Diego, we didn't have a player with good numbers, but we were good as a team. This year we sacrificed the team for an individual, and the individual didn't prove that he deserves it.


Diego proved, once more, that he isn't world class. Of course, that doesn't mean that he won't come handy in a much better team. But to create a much better team we'll need lots of money that we don't have.
It was a big mistake to wait from Diego to lead us to glory. He doesn't have it. He can only be a useful player in a team, but never a team leader.
 

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Dostoevsky

Tzu
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May 27, 2007
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And why do you think this is the case, Dule?

Is it because he has a free role and he has the ball all the time? If we had a good team next to Diego, Diego's numbers were gonna be much lower than they are now.
Now this is where you get everything wrong? Now, how did you get to that conclusion, Alen? And you said once again, what was wrong with Diego's play in Werder?

It's the first time we're playing this formation after a long time of using 4-4-2 and we have never played this bad so why do you put everything on Diego's shoulders? It's simply a bad team work. You say all the balls go to him and why is that? Simply because he's the only who can do something up front. Our midfielders have wrong roles, or they don't work well together. First

Marchisio - Melo - Sissoko had like one impressive match together. There are simply many mistakes behind and all three of them are pretty much bad passers.

Secondly, do we have width? No, 4-3-1-2 is supposed to have it and our fullbacks can't provide it.

Thirdly, our strikers were more off than on this season.

Diego is clearly the only player in midfield who creates chances but he has no help from the others. I don't know why you say he'd provide less with a better team, how? He'd be much effective if he had good wingers next to him because simply he'd have more space and he'd have somebody to plays with him. This way our play is one-sided and it's easy to read it. I bet that Kaka in form wouldn't make much difference in this Juve because it's not possible. I remember Diego was good when he had Camo and Giovinco next to him. Our play was simply more fluent and faster, the ball was moving the way it's supposed to but no, with this team, it's all rust and slow play. Now, imagine we had (for example) Ribery and Hazard on the wings. It would not be one sided football and all of them would have space. But now our opponents only have Diego to mark as the potential threat and it's easy to destroy our ideas on the field.

This team lacks 4 things.

1) fullbacks
2) the most important, regista - somebody who can step on the ball and let our players take their positions. We always needed one, hell, I don't remember the last one we had. Zanetti was partly that but it's not a complete role.
3) wingers
4) deadly finisher

Those things are a must, not just to make Diego play good, but to make this TEAM play. At the moment we have

1) awful fullbacks
2) three midfielders that can't pass well and no regista
3) no wingers and extra width
4) ineffective strikers with also no service

The answer is IMO simple. Our board tried something new this season and they wanted new formation and attacking line based through center and Diego but they made mistakes. That is why I expect to see much better and effective mercato this summer where we'll be on a tie with Inter.
 

Dostoevsky

Tzu
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May 27, 2007
89,023
Roma: 27 Julio Sergio; 77 Cassetti, 4 Juan, 29 Burdisso, 17 Riise; 20 Perrotta, 7 Pizarro, 16 De Rossi; 94 Menez; 39 Toni, 9 Vucinic

32 Doni, 5 Mexes, 10 Totti, 11 Taddei, 19 Baptista, 22 Tonetto, 33 Brighi

Inter: 12 Julio Cesar; 13 Maicon, 6 Lucio, 25 Samuel, 4 Zanetti; 5 Stankovic, 19 Cambiasso, 8 Thiago Motta; 10 Sneijder; 9 Eto'o, 22 Milito

1 Toldo, 2 Cordoba, 7 Quaresma, 11 Muntari, 23 Materazzi, 26 Chivu, 27 Pandev.
 

Mark

The Informer
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Dec 19, 2003
97,670
Stefano Palazzi will be present at the game. Remember that mofo?

They say he's there to see if Mou blows up again. :andyandbarcelona:

Can he just go play scopa and just read the papers(not Tuttosport) tomorrow like any good investigator would do?

:sergio:
 

Bjerknes

"Top Economist"
Mar 16, 2004
116,166
Goals scored by midfielders - Diego is there third
Assists - Diego
Successfull passes/Attacking passes - Diego in the top
Successful Crosses - Diego in the top, plus he's not even playing on the wing so often
Fouls won - Diego, in the top
Shots on target - Diego

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No to mention that he has bad shaped midfield behind him and no good fullbacks on the sides provided with no width. Next season if we pull good moves (and I'm pretty sure we will), he's going to be our key player.
Those are pretty solid stats for how poor we have been. Diego hasn't even been that great either yet he's still putting up the numbers. Can't really argue with that, although he does need to do better.

People want Diego to be dropped aswell, :lol:
Look at how well that worked last time around. Surely it's his fault that we're so poor. Maybe we can bench him against Atalanta and lose by a bigger margin than on Thursday.
 

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