Once Marchisio and Pjanic return, everything will be better but we need backups for them.... Badly
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[Serie A, 2nd round] Lazio 0-1 JUVENTUS [27th August, 2016] (3 Viewers)
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The game was horrible,Lazio probably deserve a draw. I like how Benatia played, really looked comfortable and his challenges were clean. Dybala is trying hard to get the creativity going, keep on dropping deep to get some attack going.
Alves is no Curadrado, he tries to much of his fancy tricks, nothing worked today. Looking at Conte didn't call Cuadrado for todays game vs Burnley earlier, i guess it's just a matter of time for Cuadrado.
Asamoah and Lemina, they can't pull the strings. Khedira he scored, had a few chances but i don't see his contribution in the middle of the park or defensively. I think's it's also huge responsibility on Lemina to be the orchestra and the same time be that defensive shield. He probably need to play to next to Marchi or Pjanic for him.
Alves is no Curadrado, he tries to much of his fancy tricks, nothing worked today. Looking at Conte didn't call Cuadrado for todays game vs Burnley earlier, i guess it's just a matter of time for Cuadrado.
Asamoah and Lemina, they can't pull the strings. Khedira he scored, had a few chances but i don't see his contribution in the middle of the park or defensively. I think's it's also huge responsibility on Lemina to be the orchestra and the same time be that defensive shield. He probably need to play to next to Marchi or Pjanic for him.
I thought we looked pretty good considering the extent to which our team had been changed up. Main plusses were;
Benatia: His tackling was very good. With time he will learn to move as our three main CBs have. Superb signing, can't believe a guy like that will be on the bench most of the season.
Dybala: Loved his hunger to get a hold of the ball, even if it meant dropping deep. In actual fact this disadvantaged our attack because he wasn't there. Still though I liked his attitude.
Alex Sandro: Everybody else looked sluggish but this guy was running like Lichtsteiner the whole game. Impressive.
Lazio looked good - very well organised and some of their players impressed me in individual moments too. I expect them to challenge for third this year.
Benatia: His tackling was very good. With time he will learn to move as our three main CBs have. Superb signing, can't believe a guy like that will be on the bench most of the season.
Dybala: Loved his hunger to get a hold of the ball, even if it meant dropping deep. In actual fact this disadvantaged our attack because he wasn't there. Still though I liked his attitude.
Alex Sandro: Everybody else looked sluggish but this guy was running like Lichtsteiner the whole game. Impressive.
Lazio looked good - very well organised and some of their players impressed me in individual moments too. I expect them to challenge for third this year.
I think its a bit hard for Lemina to straight away be our main midfielder pulling all the strings when he was only a backup last season and seeing how he has never that great at passing, I prefer him as a box to box because of his aggressiveness rather than trying to try be the guy pulling the strings, when we have no Pjanic and Marchi and no other DM's with real passing ability is brought in, I say play with Sami and Asa/Lemina and put in Pjaca Dybala and Higuain and play 3-4-3 or 3-4-1-2, use Pjaca as the Treq..
Yeah this really has to be said. Two very tough opponents, probably the toughest in the league when it comes to physicality and how they close down spaces. Just very difficult to play against Viola and Lazio. So happy to have gotten 6 points, and with that we're off to a tremendous start.
That first half of ours was incredibly poor, though, no getting around that.
That first half of ours was incredibly poor, though, no getting around that.
Lol! Yeah he did didn't he..and that Dybala pass spank worthy.. thought mendzukic should have done better looked a little off..but pjaca was better than I anticipated spot on with Gonzalo..
Most importantly happy to see that back 3 combo working flawlessly..now we can rotate and keep the CBs fresh for CL
Most importantly happy to see that back 3 combo working flawlessly..now we can rotate and keep the CBs fresh for CL
