Juventus pre-season friendlies (13 Viewers)
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What I'm saying is that the main contribution Tacchi can provide to the team shouldn't be goals. It's like picking Lucio or Stam in your team because they can score goals, it's just not the criteria they should be picked on. Sure, he gives 100%, he plays with passion, and he's a leader, but to be honest that's all too wishy-washy for me. The truth is that Tacchi lacks pace, and this often means that he has to resort to cynical clumsy tackles. His game just isn't complete IMO, but I shan't go any further than that, because the weaknesses of his game have already been discussed 1000 times
Obviously you won't select Tacchinardi because he's scoring goals regularly, but scoring those goals will aid the team and help complete Tacchinardi's game. Technically he isn't that good, but he's a solid defensive midfielder. If he can bring his tenacity to the fore as well as an eye for goal we wouldn't need DP or Trez to bag a brace each game in order to win comfortably. Imo every top team should have a midfield player to help with the supply of goals. Nedved does that pretty well at times, but none of our DMs ever score. Not that it's their job or their main priority, but if they could perform their defensive duties as well as contribute to the attack like Pirlo does for Milan, it would ease the pressure for other players.
That's the key, I don't think Tacchi is solid enough in defence to pick him based on the criteria that he might score a goal every 10 matches in order to ease the burden on our attacking players. For that particular job, I'd sooner take players like Maresca and Emerson who can help out in attack without necessarily scoring. I think we both agree on the characteristics of Tacch and what we require of our defensive midfielders, and I feel like we're just saying the same thing in different words. So let's stop here 
I'm bored so I put this together and I'm planning on updating it regularly from now on.
Juventus 2004-2005 Pre-Season Results:
Game 1:
Juventus (4 - 0) Rapresentativa Salice Terme
Miccoli, Olivera, Miccoli, Tacchinardi
Game 2:
Juventus (5 - 0) Alessandria
Chiellini, Olivera, Tacchinardi, Kapo, Zalayeta
Game 3:
Juventus (4 - 2) Pavia
Kapo, Zalayeta, Miccoli, Tacchinardi
Top Scorer
3 Miccoli
3 Tacchinardi
2 Kapo
2 Olivera
2 Zalayeta
1 Chiellini
Juventus 2004-2005 Pre-Season Results:
Game 1:
Juventus (4 - 0) Rapresentativa Salice Terme
Miccoli, Olivera, Miccoli, Tacchinardi
Game 2:
Juventus (5 - 0) Alessandria
Chiellini, Olivera, Tacchinardi, Kapo, Zalayeta
Game 3:
Juventus (4 - 2) Pavia
Kapo, Zalayeta, Miccoli, Tacchinardi
Top Scorer
3 Miccoli
3 Tacchinardi
2 Kapo
2 Olivera
2 Zalayeta
1 Chiellini
Here are all the pictures so far from Juventus.it regarding the preseason so far. It inclues, training, game and welcoming back pictures. They are all zipped for those of you lazy ones to download each picture individually.
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