Exactly my thoughts. He sorted the defence but putting 10 players in our box, sacrificing every opportunity for attacking play. Opponents managed to score on last couple of games even with that setup. So I don't think it's sorted that good as many claim here.
You have to wonder how much of the genius Juve defending was because we fluked out having 3 world class CBs and a supporting cast of mostly great back ups in a league that until recently was full of teams who were scared shitless to attack us.
It's like coaching PSG in the French league today. You can send them out with nothing more than a slap on the back and a "go gettem boys" and there's a good chance they'll score 4 goals anyway
Surprised that people are surprised with what we're seeing. It's not going to change this season. It may change beyond this one if we either massively upgrade the team (Allegri does well with champions) or if we find another coach (no guarantee of success, considering the recent history).
You have to wonder how much of the genius Juve defending was because we fluked out having 3 world class CBs and a supporting cast of mostly great back ups in a league that until recently was full of teams who were scared shitless to attack us.
It's like coaching PSG in the French league today. You can send them out with nothing more than a slap on the back and a "go gettem boys" and there's a good chance they'll score 4 goals anyway
Except it worked through 6 rounds of knockout ties to get to those finals. Stop with the revisionist bullshit. We got beat by two of the greatest attacking teams of all-time. So did everyone else for 5 years. We were the only team to knock Real Madrid out of CL in 5 years. If you think we had the better team in either of those CL finals, that’s on you for having dumb expectations.
We literally had the best defence and one of the best midfields in Europe throughout the early to mid 2010s and we didn't even give ourselves a fighting chance because we resigned to trying to defend at all costs against teams who were built to deal with that
These teams were immensely top heavy and we decided the best way to deal with that would be to try and perform miracles in defence and put absolutely no pressure on their defence and it failed miserably and we were embarrassed yet again
Forgive me for not wanking over 2 awful CL finals when we had a top 3-4 team in Europe anyway.
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But hey at least Allegro is a hell of a lot better than Conte who had prime BBC and MVP-P
We literally had the best defence and one of the best midfields in Europe throughout the early to mid 2010s and we didn't even give ourselves a fighting chance because we resigned to trying to defend at all costs against teams who were built to deal with that
These teams were immensely top heavy and we decided the best way to deal with that would be to try and perform miracles in defence and put absolutely no pressure on their defence and it failed miserably and we were embarrassed yet again
Forgive me for not wanking over 2 awful CL finals when we had a top 3-4 team in Europe anyway.
we absolutely did not have the best midfield in the world in 2016-17. WTF.
And in 2014-15 reaching the final was a huge achievement. It was our first European final since 2003 and we had failed to qualify for the Round of 16 just a year before. This revisionism is just
We literally had the best defence and one of the best midfields in Europe throughout the early to mid 2010s and we didn't even give ourselves a fighting chance because we resigned to trying to defend at all costs against teams who were built to deal with that
These teams were immensely top heavy and we decided the best way to deal with that would be to try and perform miracles in defence and put absolutely no pressure on their defence and it failed miserably and we were embarrassed yet again
Forgive me for not wanking over 2 awful CL finals when we had a top 3-4 team in Europe anyway.
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But hey at least Allegro is a hell of a lot better than Conte who had prime BBC and MVP-P
Not a chance? An awful performance? It was 1-1 at the 70th minute against Barca. They scored on the counter just after Paul Pogba was rugby tackled by Alves in the box which certainly would have been given as a penalty if it happened in the other direction. They scored a third goal on the counter again in injury time while we were pressing to tie the game.
You have to be an utter retard to think we weren’t in that game against Barca
we absolutely did not have the best midfield in the world in 2016-17. WTF.
And in 2014-15 reaching the final was a huge achievement. It was our first European final since 2003 and we had failed to qualify for the Round of 16 just a year before. This revisionism is just
I love Allegri fan boys. The mental gymnastics they perform is the only entertaining thing about watching Juve concede possession and park the bus against teams who couldn't afford to pay our benches salaries
What can you do. We have a semi-finished bonbon and a overrated defender in de ligt.
We also have a decent RB in Danilo and poor lb in Pellegrini who is better than Sandro lol.