But it would be absolutely ridiculous not to rotate when you have such a great chance, and not doing so would be plain counterproductive from absolutely all angles. I'd understand this in a different situation, but:
-We are leading the table by 4 points with a game in hand (if we beat Inter the stars align even more)
-We are playing almost three of the worst teams in Serie A after Inter
-Pjaca is a perfect fit for the formation and was bought exactly for these situations
-We can keep playing this 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3 formation with less fatigue problems and less chance of injuries IF we rotate one of the attackers with Pjaca. We would be playing 4 of our 5 attackers in 8 games in a row FFS
-This also helps him get used to the system when the inevitable injury occurs to one of our attackers, and we can smoothly keep playing the formation without having to push Pjaca off the deep end against the likes of Napoli, or forcing us to switch back to another formation which we haven't been so good with.
-It kinda fukks with the lads head when he doesn't get to start a single game despite being signed for 20 million
There's really no reason not to start him unless we lose against Inter. After Inter these lads have played together for 4 matches in a row, it's not like one match in between is gonna destroy the chemistry fukkin lmao. You make it seem like we're gonna absolutely get crushed by a farmer team when one player switches place for a while. Have some f8 m8
Faith ? Check what i said in his transfer thread
This isnt a about injuries or rotation. its about mechanics.
This is a new system. It takes alot of time and effort to perfect it. Months. Our system works because we have insane workrate down the wings allowing this exceptionally talented central axis to work. Our wide players are vastly superior over pjaca.
Pjaca can only be introduced once the system has been firmly set and the central midfield know the mechanics, running lines, tactical instructions and movements, and can execute it blindfolded. Only then you can start thinking about swapping out one player and see how others compensate for him, with knowledge of how they are deviating from the original system and where the balance lies.
In the 3-5-2 it was easy to introduce players because everyone know it completely. If newbie was fucking something up, they knew where and when, they knew what to do and how. This is extremely important.
This is why you first need a new system to be completely adopted by your starters and their specific qualities, before you bring in jolly goof fancy who will make lots of mistakes that need to be corrected and adjusted.
Question. We know Dybala is excellent but isnt clicking 100% with Cuadrado's movement. If we swap Pjaca for Cuadrado and that goes fine, but then against Porto we play Cuadrado again and they are still not working well and the opponent locks them down. Where does the fault lies here and what do you do ? Replace cuadrado with vastly inferior pjaca ?
If Pjaca fucks up marking and someone goes out of position to back it up on a fast paced counter, but messes up as he doesnt know where he was supposed to be if this occured and the opponent scores, who's fault is that ?
Thats why we do this now. Allegri would probably continue to switch to 4-3-3 once one of the wide players need to go out