First of all I have to say the ref was garbage. He allowed too much. Sends off Licht for talking but at the same time allows their players to go for bones in a friendly game. The guy with number 8 could have been easily thrown out in the first half for example.
Getting back to out team I still see one huge problem: Morata doesn't seem to complement with Mandzukic at all. Allegri should play just one of them at time. It's also connected to another fact: Tevez is our biggest loss of the Summer and no player in our squad is capable of replacing him man-to-man. Dybala looks very good but he isn't strong enough to carry the attack on his own. Pereyra is good at what he does but it's obvious he can't do it too. Morata as SS won't work IMO and his partnership with Mandzukic is still bad and it might not improve - they're too similar or rather none of the two can actually do what Tevez did for us. Pogba plays too deep to be able to do that too but even if moved to AM - I don't think he'd be able to fill the void anyway.
That being said I think Allegri has to change things and adapt once again. With the roster we currently have I think he has to play all the three of Pogba, Pereyra and Dybala at once so nobody gets Tevez's job to get done alone. Marchisio and Khedira/Sturaro to get more defensive duties to free up Pogba even more. On paper you can show it in many ways but in practice it could form into sort of 4231 like this:
Morata/Mandzukic
Pereyra - Pogba - Dybala
Marchisio - Khedira
Pogba wouldn't be a typical AM but we definitely would want to have him more involved. Dybala and Pereyra switching sides and being given more free roles. Having just one of them on the pitch won't cut it for us. That's how I see it now. Obviously getting some WC name like Gotze could change it for us drastically but let's be realistic: no expensive WC player will come.
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