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juve123

Senior Member
Aug 10, 2017
16,651
Sure but a good defender should be able to defend while his team plays deep as well, when opposition puts pressure on your backline as no matter how good your team is, there will be periods where your team will stand off for a while. What Ive seen from him are clumsy challenges inside the box and handballs. He conceded so many many penalties that is was ridiculous. Hes not good at setting at the offside trap either. So he wants to do as little work as possible or as little defending as possible, preferably players higher up the pitch doing most of the work and occasionally him making an odd clearance.

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His anticipation, reading of the game is woeful. Hes reactionary defender but he wants to play in high line that favors those skills. He was okayish here, despite the errors he made, I thought he could grew into a solid defender after some time. But he surely isnt 90m defender. We got duped.
I am fed up of De ligt bitching can't remember the last time an ex juve player has repeated the same thing 100 times to over.
 

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juve123

Senior Member
Aug 10, 2017
16,651
Yeah, omg, hes put up here to defend. What a doofus. Focus on your club and try to do better there.
Really reminds me of overhyped defender who is buthurt by the criticism of the Italian media over his performances. Frenkie de jong is good example of player who was ill treated by Barcelona and the management still stayed at the club and has shown respect towards without going to the media unlike this spoilt brat.

De Ligt added: “It’s a completely different style of defending. At Ajax you press really high, you take risks, at Juventus it’s more about what is behind you.
“In Italy the pace of the league is also a little bit slower. They won four World Cups with this playing style, so I completely understand they feel this is the right way to do it.
“I came to Juventus with the idea of playing more attacking football, because Sarri was the coach and he had a really good name in the world of football, played amazing football with Napoli and Chelsea.

"I was expecting more of the Ajax style there, but unfortunately after one year he was sacked.”
 

Boksic

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May 11, 2005
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Really reminds me of overhyped defender who is buthurt by the criticism of the Italian media over his performances. Frenkie de jong is good example of player who was ill treated by Barcelona and the management still stayed at the club and has shown respect towards without going to the media unlike this spoilt brat.

De Ligt added: “It’s a completely different style of defending. At Ajax you press really high, you take risks, at Juventus it’s more about what is behind you.
“In Italy the pace of the league is also a little bit slower. They won four World Cups with this playing style, so I completely understand they feel this is the right way to do it.
“I came to Juventus with the idea of playing more attacking football, because Sarri was the coach and he had a really good name in the world of football, played amazing football with Napoli and Chelsea.

"I was expecting more of the Ajax style there, but unfortunately after one year he was sacked.”
I'm not sure he watched much of Chelsea when Sarri was there.
 

Strickland

Senior Member
May 17, 2019
5,859
Which is fair enough. But he was even worse when defending in high lines here under Sarri and Pirlo. We had an appalling defensive record those two seasons. :p

I think he’s a good defender, it’s just that given the fee we (Tuz) probably expected a generational defender already at his best and he wasn’t there yet, which is fair, as he was very young. He could still get there certainly.
We played a half-assed high line with both Sarri and Pirlo.
 

Post Ironic

Senior Member
Feb 9, 2013
42,253
“I came to Juventus with the idea of playing more attacking football, because Sarri was the coach and he had a really good name in the world of football, played amazing football with Napoli and Chelsea.

"I was expecting more of the Ajax style there, but unfortunately after one year he was sacked.”
He was terrible under Sarri, his worst year here, so it’s strange he would bang on about this.
 

MikeM

Footballing Hipster celebrating 4th place with Tuz
Sep 21, 2008
12,834
I'd bet very few defenders want to play in their own box nowadays. Attackers can just kick it at your arm and walk to the penalty spot as Chelsea did yesterday. It's comedy.

Even if the ball misses your arm, VAR will stop the match to check if your breath put the attacker's kick off.

Nevermind that when you actually win a ball, your winger is back on your goalline and the opponent just collects the ball and attacks again. And nowadays even the relegation battlers will do this to you.
 

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