Marchisio was a great midfielder and very underrated. Since him we never had a midfielder who could play in every role at the midfield. He could play in a advanced role and had great runs into the box. In his last years you could easily see that he has been paying attention to Pirlo’s way of playing. His passing was obviously far less but he adapted to the vice-regista role and was great in positioning. He was very versatile and managed to always add something. People tent to forget that we played 4312 in 2015 with Vidal behind the strikers, Marchisio was a real soldier in those years. I always read ‘we reached the final with Pirlo, Pogba and Vidal’, but Marchisio was always there. In 2017 he also had his fair part, starting in the semi final in CL, aswel in the Coppa Italia final. Real shame that he got that injury
This only thing I disliked about Marchisio is that he always tried to shoot with the outside of his foot in his last 2 to 3 years with us, he wasn’t very successful with it.
I loved him and he scored some iconic goals as that one vs Inter for example. I don’t want to cry about his Juventinita and keep the focus on his qualities for this post, people who didn’t saw it were blind.