Medhi Benatia (26 Viewers)

[Afghan_juventus]

What? Benatia played around half of our first dozen matches this year. Full 90 minutes in 5 of first 12 league matches.

Chiellini was our best defender last year, even with his occasional brainfarts. Benatia was very consistent, but not at the same level as Chiello.

Regardless, our defence is better right now, because of the added effects of Bonucci on our gameplay making it harder for teams to press and dominate us the way good teams did at times last year. Hence the reason our defensive record is better this year, even if Bonucci hasn't found his best defensive form yet.

Yeah but 5/20 overall in Serie A. Thats just not enough for a player as good as Benatia especially when u take into consideration all of Bonucci's brainfarts throughout the season.
I see what ur saying on Bonucci and playing out the back but thats kinda canceled out due to all his moments of poor defending which have costed us goals. Also imo the great start is due to goat, Mandzu's big moments, and the team overall being strengthened.

 

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[DAiDEViL]

Fabio bad at selling. Could have sparked a bidding war for Benatia with all these interested teams. Instead sold him for peanuts to the team Benatia wanted to go to.

Paratici should have just bitch slapped Benatia, telling him to shut the fuck up and ride it out for a few more months

 

[Post Ironic]

Yeah but 5/20 overall in Serie A. Thats just not enough for a player as good as Benatia especially when u take into consideration all of Bonucci's brainfarts throughout the season.
I see what ur saying on Bonucci and playing out the back but thats kinda canceled out due to all his moments of poor defending which have costed us goals. Also imo the great start is due to goat, Mandzu's big moments, and the team overall being strengthened.

We've scored substantially less goals this year, and also allowed substantially less thus far. So the evidence doesn't support your opinion.

 

[Hængebøffer]

Well he was our best defender last season and was immediately dropped to the bench for Bonucci who was horrible last season and accident prone. Not to mention he wasnt really given a chance to defend his place in the starting XI.

Great start but its the season as whole and particularly the CL which matters.....

Oh please. He played half of the games and was hardly a main starter. It’s revisionism.

 

[Afghan_juventus]

Oh please. He played half of the games and was hardly a main starter. It’s revisionism.

Are you seriously going to tell me Benatia wasnt a starter on the team sheet last season???? After the Barca 0-0 there was no doubt him + Chiello were the main duo.

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We've scored substantially less goals this year, and also allowed substantially less thus far. So the evidence doesn't support your opinion.

Well we'll know for sure how we've improved come Atletico. Im personally worried about Bonucci coming up against Diego Costa (If he is healhy).

 

[zizinho]

What? Benatia played around half of our first dozen matches this year. Full 90 minutes in 5 of first 12 league matches.

Chiellini was our best defender last year, even with his occasional brainfarts. Benatia was very consistent, but not at the same level as Chiello.

Regardless, our defence is better right now, because of the added effects of Bonucci on our gameplay making it harder for teams to press and dominate us the way good teams did at times last year. Hence the reason our defensive record is better this year, even if Bonucci hasn't found his best defensive form yet.

I think Cancelo and in form AS over Licht and Asa contributed something to that as well?

 

[Post Ironic]

Are you seriously going to tell me Benatia wasnt a starter on the team sheet last season???? After the Barca 0-0 there was no doubt him + Chiello were the main duo.

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Well we'll know for sure how we've improved come Atletico. Im personally worried about Bonucci coming up against Diego Costa (If he is healhy).

He was our CL starter. Certainly. Rugani was favoured over him in the league down the stretch. Played the full 90 in 11 of our last 14 league matches, 6 of our last 7, including the last 4 straight matches well after being knocked out of CL, and in battle with Napoli for scudetto.

 

[Hængebøffer]

Are you seriously going to tell me Benatia wasnt a starter on the team sheet last season???? After the Barca 0-0 there was no doubt him + Chiello were the main duo.

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Maybe I was too quickly here. He started and played half of the Serie A games. Don’t know about CL.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

Qatar FFS

At least we didn’t give him to Milan.

No tax

 

[BayernFan]

It was the same with him in Bayern Munich, he seems to have attitude problems, so no wonder he leaves Juve like that.

Reminds me of this lol. Such victim mentality

 

[Bianconero81]

Typical Arab mentality. Such a punk. And Yes, I'm an Arab, so it's not racist.

He could've stayed until the end of the season, behaved like a professional, and then showed this dramatic side. It's not like AFCON or the World Cup are around the corner.

 

[Stevie]

If he really chose Quatar over United for the sake of 1.3m then he is a dick.

 

[Hængebøffer]

Typical Arab mentality. Such a punk. And Yes, I'm an Arab, so it's not racist.

He could've stayed until the end of the season, behaved like a professional, and then showed this dramatic side. It's not like AFCON or the World Cup are around the corner.

But it is. Talk like this only in private, if you don’t want other people to talk like this. I don’t care what colour people are, but only use words/terms in public that you agree everyone can say.

 

[X Æ A-12]

I wouldn't say a dick as football maybe is just a job to him and therefore he is in it for the money. That's ok i guess but if he did really have an offer from United and chose Qatar then he certainly lacks ambition to win or compete in a significant way ever again

 

[GordoDeCentral]

https://www.football-italia.net/133781/benatia-rejected-man-utd-qatar

Evidently he prefers 200 degree heat of Doha over cold rainy days of Manchester.

If true, that should tell you all you need to know about this joke of a competitor

 

[X Æ A-12]

agree if he's really interested in going to Qatar (he's 31 not even old for a CB) then he isn't up to stay in a team that wants to compete for a treble.

 

[Jem83]

Good riddance

 

[Post Ironic]

If true, that should tell you all you need to know about this joke of a competitor

If he can’t take competing with Bonucci and Rugani for playing time, he’s a pathetic joke.

However, i’d still like to see us making some sort of proper upgrade somewhere on the field if we are selling him mid-season.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

If he can’t take competing with Bonucci and Rugani for playing time, he’s a pathetic joke.

However, i’d still like to see us making some sort of proper upgrade somewhere on the field if we are selling him mid-season.

Don't think it will happen my brother

 

[Post Ironic]

Don't think it will happen my brother

Agreed. Too late in the window now.

I’m curious to see how we perform against Atletico, a defensice team with a fantastic midfield. It will be interesting to see if our strength in attack and out wide can overcome our obvious midfield weakness.