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Allegri: 'Higuain too complacent'
By Football Italia staff
Max Allegri warned Gonzalo Higuain “mustn’t rest on his laurels” after ending his goal drought and Juventus can’t take Atalanta for granted.
It kicks off on Sunday at 19.45 UK time (18.45 GMT), click here for a match preview.
After dropping Higuain against Torino and Olympiakos, Allegri believes he has sent the right message.
“Higuain is an important player and always has been, even if he was on the bench the last couple of games. Every season is different to the next. It’s already in the past and you must immediately reboot to start all over again,” said the Coach in his Press conference.
“There are players who prove that, those who remained from the first Scudetto. Gonzalo mustn’t rest on his laurels. He must have the grit and ambition to fight it out with all the best in the world and he has what it takes to do that. As he is an important player, it’s up to him to do it and not be complacent.
“Higuain is playing tomorrow. The other day he came on against Olympiakos with a different attitude, but that’s the attitude he must have throughout the season and in every match.
“In attack, I just need to evaluate Juan Cuadrado tomorrow, as he had a knock to the foot. It’s one between Cuadrado, Douglas Costa and Federico Bernardeschi.
“I will make some changes tomorrow, as certain players need to rest. Giorgio Chiellini has a bandage on his head, but that won’t stop him playing. Unless something else happens, he will play.
“Fortunately, the break for international duty is coming up, so we can get Sami Khedira back. His knee inflammation has flared up again and he won’t be there tomorrow. Miralem Pjanic and Claudio Marchisio are out, we hope to have Benedikt Howedes after the break for international duty.
“Tomorrow we’ve got Rodrigo Bentancur and Blaise Matuidi, while we could also use Stefano Sturaro or Kwadwo Asamoah there. I am not worried, as the players are currently 'resting’ and will be fresh later on in the season.
“Bentancur has character to spare. He needs to improve in various areas that he will do with experience. Bernardeschi has improved both physically and tactically, he’ll soon be able to make the difference from the start and not just off the bench.
“Gigi Buffon plays tomorrow, though I am very happy with what Wojciech Szczesny is doing.”
Juve have a tricky trip to Bergamo tomorrow evening after Atalanta held Lyon to a 1-1 Europa League draw on Thursday night.
“It’s a very difficult match tomorrow, as Atalanta run hard, are going through a great period of form and it wasn’t easy for a side with no international experience to earn a draw away to Olympique Lyonnais.
“The games are never over in Bergamo, don’t forget last season we thought it was done and we conceded for 2-2. If we don’t win, then we’ll be in a bad mood throughout the break for international duty.
“We need to improve as a team, our overall standard of football, but we are at an early stage.”
Allegri was asked about the news Carlo Ancelotti was sacked by Bayern Munich this week.
“Carletto was fortunate, as in 30 years he’s been fired only once. He is one of the best Coaches in the world and won the Bundesliga, Cup and Super Cup at Bayern Munich. He was undeservedly eliminated from the Champions League by Real Madrid last season.”
By Football Italia staff
Max Allegri warned Gonzalo Higuain “mustn’t rest on his laurels” after ending his goal drought and Juventus can’t take Atalanta for granted.
It kicks off on Sunday at 19.45 UK time (18.45 GMT), click here for a match preview.
After dropping Higuain against Torino and Olympiakos, Allegri believes he has sent the right message.
“Higuain is an important player and always has been, even if he was on the bench the last couple of games. Every season is different to the next. It’s already in the past and you must immediately reboot to start all over again,” said the Coach in his Press conference.
“There are players who prove that, those who remained from the first Scudetto. Gonzalo mustn’t rest on his laurels. He must have the grit and ambition to fight it out with all the best in the world and he has what it takes to do that. As he is an important player, it’s up to him to do it and not be complacent.
“Higuain is playing tomorrow. The other day he came on against Olympiakos with a different attitude, but that’s the attitude he must have throughout the season and in every match.
“In attack, I just need to evaluate Juan Cuadrado tomorrow, as he had a knock to the foot. It’s one between Cuadrado, Douglas Costa and Federico Bernardeschi.
“I will make some changes tomorrow, as certain players need to rest. Giorgio Chiellini has a bandage on his head, but that won’t stop him playing. Unless something else happens, he will play.
“Fortunately, the break for international duty is coming up, so we can get Sami Khedira back. His knee inflammation has flared up again and he won’t be there tomorrow. Miralem Pjanic and Claudio Marchisio are out, we hope to have Benedikt Howedes after the break for international duty.
“Tomorrow we’ve got Rodrigo Bentancur and Blaise Matuidi, while we could also use Stefano Sturaro or Kwadwo Asamoah there. I am not worried, as the players are currently 'resting’ and will be fresh later on in the season.
“Bentancur has character to spare. He needs to improve in various areas that he will do with experience. Bernardeschi has improved both physically and tactically, he’ll soon be able to make the difference from the start and not just off the bench.
“Gigi Buffon plays tomorrow, though I am very happy with what Wojciech Szczesny is doing.”
Juve have a tricky trip to Bergamo tomorrow evening after Atalanta held Lyon to a 1-1 Europa League draw on Thursday night.
“It’s a very difficult match tomorrow, as Atalanta run hard, are going through a great period of form and it wasn’t easy for a side with no international experience to earn a draw away to Olympique Lyonnais.
“The games are never over in Bergamo, don’t forget last season we thought it was done and we conceded for 2-2. If we don’t win, then we’ll be in a bad mood throughout the break for international duty.
“We need to improve as a team, our overall standard of football, but we are at an early stage.”
Allegri was asked about the news Carlo Ancelotti was sacked by Bayern Munich this week.
“Carletto was fortunate, as in 30 years he’s been fired only once. He is one of the best Coaches in the world and won the Bundesliga, Cup and Super Cup at Bayern Munich. He was undeservedly eliminated from the Champions League by Real Madrid last season.”
why let that trashy asamoah play?
fucking play benatia and rugani in the middle and chiellini at LB if we are resting Sandro. Useless player asamoah is...he adds nothing of any worthwhile value to this club anymore if he ever did.
Was Bernadeschi was tired? why fucking take him off when he contributed to both goals and put on another useless player like cuadrado?
fucking play benatia and rugani in the middle and chiellini at LB if we are resting Sandro. Useless player asamoah is...he adds nothing of any worthwhile value to this club anymore if he ever did.
Was Bernadeschi was tired? why fucking take him off when he contributed to both goals and put on another useless player like cuadrado?
Rugani sucks thats why.... Dominated the game overall but unlucky in the end. Freekick was fabricated that led to their 1st goal and I havent seen anything wrong with Lichts challenge for our disallowed one. Atalanta is a strong adversary on their stadium. Not many can break them down. Moving on...
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Mini turnover... seemed fine when we scored 2 goals in succession and on another day it would have stayed like this.
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Mini turnover... seemed fine when we scored 2 goals in succession and on another day it would have stayed like this.
i guess we need to rest AS sometimes, and no, Chiellini shouldnt play LB. BUT, once we went 343 with the Barza-Licht sub, why take off Berna for Cuads, when we could have easily made a Cuads-Asa sub and played a 343 still
Barza-Benatia-Chiello
Cuads-Bentancur-Matuidi-Berna
Dybala-Higuain-Mandzo
or after the Berna-Cuads sub, why take off Mandzukic (whos 10x more useful than Asa on both ends of the pitch) then for Costa, when we could have done Costa-Asa and still played a 343 like this:
Barza-Benatia-Chiello
Cuads-Bentancur-Matuidi-Costa
Dybala-Higuain-Mandzo
OR
Barza-Benatia-Chiello
Cuads-Bentancur-Marchisio-Matuidi
Dybala-Higuain-Mandzo
point being, why the fuck is Asa playing the full 90 minutes in a game we were chasing the result for the last ~30 minutes?
also, games like this show how important Pjanic is for us, now that Bonucci is gone
Barza-Benatia-Chiello
Cuads-Bentancur-Matuidi-Berna
Dybala-Higuain-Mandzo
or after the Berna-Cuads sub, why take off Mandzukic (whos 10x more useful than Asa on both ends of the pitch) then for Costa, when we could have done Costa-Asa and still played a 343 like this:
Barza-Benatia-Chiello
Cuads-Bentancur-Matuidi-Costa
Dybala-Higuain-Mandzo
OR
Barza-Benatia-Chiello
Cuads-Bentancur-Marchisio-Matuidi
Dybala-Higuain-Mandzo
point being, why the fuck is Asa playing the full 90 minutes in a game we were chasing the result for the last ~30 minutes?
also, games like this show how important Pjanic is for us, now that Bonucci is gone
I have no idea why Sandro was rested.
Max is seriously testing my loyalty this year. It's like he always is rotating the wrong players.
I'm going to stick to my argument that mario shouldn't be playing winger. With the occasional back post run, he is offering less and less offensively. We didn't need his defensive contribution today because Atalanta attacked down the right side with Gomez so our left side was completely limp/tootless because neither Mandzukic or Asamoah is capable of running forward with the ball.
The only things that seem to keep the Mandzukic at winger faithfull loyal is his defensive contribute (which I agree with ) and I guess his occasional goal? We need players to whip in crosses or for God sakes actually take defenders on one v one.
Max is seriously testing my loyalty this year. It's like he always is rotating the wrong players.
I'm going to stick to my argument that mario shouldn't be playing winger. With the occasional back post run, he is offering less and less offensively. We didn't need his defensive contribution today because Atalanta attacked down the right side with Gomez so our left side was completely limp/tootless because neither Mandzukic or Asamoah is capable of running forward with the ball.
The only things that seem to keep the Mandzukic at winger faithfull loyal is his defensive contribute (which I agree with ) and I guess his occasional goal? We need players to whip in crosses or for God sakes actually take defenders on one v one.
