Allegri is the guy who digured out how to field Higuain, Manduzkic, Dybala and Cuadrado at the same time.
You smug little bastard. Breaking out the rofl on me.
You've missed the point. Yes, those are all at least
supposed to be attacking players. And on paper is looks like an attacking approach to field them together. But if you'd bothered to pay attention to what he did with those players, you'd see how unattacking the
way he fielded them was.
He experimented with Mandzukic and Dybala. One experiment was a stroke of tactical genius the other was a wanton disaster. But what makes your point moot is that the two were not instructed to serve their usual functions as strikers but to basically clog up an undermanned midfield. Not exactly going on the front foot, more a novel reinterpretation of his stubbornly prudent approach.
Dybala was made completely ineffectual by Allegri. He dragged Dybala into his protracted form slump that he looks to only now be recovering from by confusing his function. Mandzukic was a de facto left-midfielder which came off a treat but it wasn't an attacking move. To add, it made our attack lopsided and predictable. Cuadrado would charge down the channel and whip the ball to the far post where Mandzukic would be waiting. A move that came off many times but it still made us very predictable. Sarri values symmetry where he can achieve it and there's a very good reason for that.