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Oct 23, 2011
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We're obviously sticking to Allegri for at the very least another year, and rightfully so. Which coach can create something out of this bunch? Not a single coach is going to transform the likes of Bentancur, Arthur, Rabiot, Bernardeschi, Kean, Morata into assist/goal scoring machines. We are just a very, very average squad that lacks any technical ability. Not even Dybala or Chiesa have more than 10 goals per season in them. We all were naive to think that the team was going to perform better overall after selling Ronaldo, but the only thing it proved was that his goals kept us afloat in the last two years. We got rid of 25+ goals and replaced it with nothing.
 

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MikeM

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Sep 21, 2008
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We're obviously sticking to Allegri for at the very least another year, and rightfully so. Which coach can create something out of this bunch? Not a single coach is going to transform the likes of Bentancur, Arthur, Rabiot, Bernardeschi, Kean, Morata into assist/goal scoring machines. We are just a very, very average squad that lacks any technical ability. Not even Dybala or Chiesa have more than 10 goals per season in them. We all were naive to think that the team was going to perform better overall after selling Ronaldo, but the only thing it proved was that his goals kept us afloat in the last two years. We got rid of 25+ goals and replaced it with nothing.
Mate, we have significantly less goals than Verona and Empoli. The deeper you play, the less goals you score usually. It's really that simple and not hard to figure out.
 
Jun 6, 2015
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Mate, we have significantly less goals than Verona and Empoli. The deeper you play, the less goals you score usually. It's really that simple and not hard to figure out.
Oversimplification. In many ways it's easier to create chances against a team that plays very high but you need to be able to break the press to be able to do that. Otherwise you'll just be under constant pressure as you lose the ball. One of our problems imo is not knowing when to just keep possession of the ball for a bit. As Allegri himself alluded we're at times a bit too hasty on the ball.
 

MikeM

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Sep 21, 2008
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Oversimplification. In many ways it's easier to create chances against a team that plays very high but you need to be able to break the press to be able to do that. Otherwise you'll just be under constant pressure as you lose the ball. One of our problems imo is not knowing when to just keep possession of the ball for a bit. As Allegri himself alluded we're at times a bit too hasty on the ball.
It's no oversimplification. It's Occam's Razor. You will *usually* score more if you play higher. The gentleman was concerned about goals. Well if you want to score more, you should play higher. Will you win more? That's debatable.

All the other problems will flow from that. How do you hold the ball when you are recovering it in your 18 yard box? Isn't it easier to maintain possession when you win the ball at half?

Why do you even have to worry about breaking a press? Because you are winning the ball so far in your half, that you get pressed!

Like I said, on the topic strictly of goals, the answer is actually very simple in my eyes.
 

juve123

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Aug 10, 2017
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Oversimplification. In many ways it's easier to create chances against a team that plays very high but you need to be able to break the press to be able to do that. Otherwise you'll just be under constant pressure as you lose the ball. One of our problems imo is not knowing when to just keep possession of the ball for a bit. As Allegri himself alluded we're at times a bit too hasty on the ball.
If we become a better counter attacking team that would solve a lot of problems.
 
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It's no oversimplification. It's Occam's Razor. You will *usually* score more if you play higher. The gentleman was concerned about goals. Well if you want to score more, you should play higher. Will you win more? That's debatable.

All the other problems will flow from that. How do you hold the ball when you are recovering it in your 18 yard box? Isn't it easier to maintain possession when you win the ball at half?

Why do you even have to worry about breaking a press? Because you are winning the ball so far in your half, that you get pressed!

Like I said, on the topic strictly of goals, the answer is actually very simple in my eyes.
If you play higher up it usually means your opponent plays lower which again makes it more difficult to create chances. You want to have some space to attack and ideally you want to attack against an unorganised defence. Two main ways to achieve that, pressing high and winning the ball high up the pitch (very difficult and takes a lot of time to train) or counter attacking (much easier). You don't create chances simply by playing higher up the pitch, in addition to that you need to do many other things right.
 

MikeM

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If you play higher up it usually means your opponent plays lower which again makes it more difficult to create chances. You want to have some space to attack and ideally you want to attack against an unorganised defence. Two main ways to achieve that, pressing high and winning the ball high up the pitch (very difficult and takes a lot of time to train) or counter attacking (much easier). You don't create chances simply by playing higher up the pitch, in addition to that you need to do many other things right.
Our counter attack is literally 1 or 2 players. Usually Morata and/or Chiesa. It's impossible. I see Chiesa starting from our own 18 yard box.
 

Hist

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Jan 18, 2009
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If you play higher up it usually means your opponent plays lower which again makes it more difficult to create chances. You want to have some space to attack and ideally you want to attack against an unorganised defence. Two main ways to achieve that, pressing high and winning the ball high up the pitch (very difficult and takes a lot of time to train) or counter attacking (much easier). You don't create chances simply by playing higher up the pitch, in addition to that you need to do many other things right.
In theory you can counter attack from high up the pitch. Liverpool are good at that for example. High aggressive pressing to win the ball and then release Mane or Salah at super speed. We dont have to win the ball and start the counter from so deep. If we had a more aggressive midfield, Chiesa and Caudrado and Morata can be good on the counter. Ofc most teams sit deep against us in Serie A so this can only work against very few teams... maybe mostly in Europe.
 

Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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I think that represents half of the goals from our CMs. McKennie 2 and Locatelli 2. No other CM has scored :howler:

running circles around them

what a dumpster fire
Mckennie has the same number of goals as Locatelli while playing significantly further up the pitch. It’s a pitiful return for much he’s in the box. Him being far better than Rabiot and Bentancur doesn’t say much. It just illustrates how garbage our midfield is… just like our top attacker having only 5 goals illustrates how garbage our forwards are. Not sure what you’re trying to illustrate here…
 

MikeM

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Sep 21, 2008
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Mckennie has the same number of goals as Locatelli while playing significantly further up the pitch. It’s a pitiful return for much he’s in the box. Him being far better than Rabiot and Bentancur doesn’t say much. It just illustrates how garbage our midfield is… just like our top attacker having only 5 goals illustrates how garbage our forwards are. Not sure what you’re trying to illustrate here…
I dunno bro. You're the one who brought McKennie up out of nowhere.
 

Post Ironic

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Feb 9, 2013
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I dunno bro. You're the one who brought McKennie up out of nowhere.
You brought up counters and no on being involved in them, but that isn’t entirely true as McKennie is consistently up the pitch when we counter. He just generally doesn’t do anything useful up there.

Anyways, He has potential and gets in good spots, hopefully he improves his end product.
 

Enron

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Oct 11, 2005
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You brought up counters and no on being involved in them, but that isn’t entirely true as McKennie is consistently up the pitch when we counter. He just generally doesn’t do anything useful up there.

Anyways, He has potential and gets in good spots, hopefully he improves his end product.
the issues on counters are mainly due to Juve not having a single player who can consistently play early balls into the final third. whenever you do score or create a chance on the counter it’s usually due to individual moments, not usually the pass

I’m not sure if having better forwards helps that issue but it would definitely raise the amount of goals scored in normal run of play
 

singus

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Sep 22, 2020
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Of course we can shitcan his ass again if he continues to drag us down to the Serie B level shit we have seen since his appointment. That is far cheaper than spending 3 seasons recovering from his prehistoric methods.
 

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