Ciro is making it look impossible because of his defensive mentality.
This opens a whole new question. I'm not 100% sure that we can talk about a defensive mentality. I think it has to do much more with the weak defense we have.
Even though my respect for Ranieri and Ferrara as coaches is close to zero, I think they correctly noticed that our defense needs as much more protection as possible.
You don't like it, I really don't like it, Andy hates it and we have a hard time accepting this, but it's hard not to see how vulnerable and weak our defense is.
Sure, our answer to this is to play more attacking and at least try to score a goal more than what our defense concedes, but even this turned out like flipping a coin and it works in 50% of the matches, while it doesn't work on the other 50% when the opponents stop our attack.
To summarize, I can't be objective here because I too, like all of you, would like to see an exciting Juve with Diego, Giovinco and Del Piero playing. That's why I won't go into what's better, a defensive or attacking Juve.
I will only say that it's preposterous that we're not seriously strengthening the defense. Strong defense will give us tens of new options in midfield and attack. Ranieri tried to improvise with offside traps, deep defense etc and even though it worked some times, some times it didn't. Ferrara proved himself a worse tactician and our defensive problems have been even more exposed.
Both had to sacrifice a lot in attack and midfield at the expense of our defense, while investing in our defense would have made a world of difference.
It's true that poor ball movement, poor off the ball movement etc are too part of the problem but even if we fix those problems we won't be winning any trophies until we fix the back 4.
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