I just feel sorry when I saw that expression of Vidal's face when he was subbed.He was angry.
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[Serie A] Atalanta 0-3 JUVENTUS (September 27th 2014) (1 Viewer)
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Not a terribly interesting game.
Juve looked a lot like last season until the first goal, as they were trying to smash through the middle of Atalanta too much, rather setting up the play to create space and find a clearer way to goal.
In the second half nothing was happening until Chiellini and Evra switched off and could have allowed Atalanta back in the game.
It's another game that I think could have been more straightforward defensively had Juve played with a back four. With the back three it was harder to know how to safely mark Denis and Boakye when Atalanta were trying to pull Juve wide to expose them against Marchisio and Bonucci through the centre of the pitch. At times Ogbonna went narrow to pick up Denis and leave Bonucci spare (which was the correct thing to do) but that wasn't done consistently. There was also a while in the first half when Bonucci and Ogbonna appeared to switch positions.
Today wasn't the best examply of this, but occurs to me that there is increasingly an onus on opposition teams to not simply sit deep and counter-attack when playing Juventus - if they have ambitions of actually getting a result and not just playing a damage-limitation game. Juve are now making so few meaningful errors in possession, that you cannot expect to get many counter-attacking chances. Not enough counter-attacking chances to constitute a legitimate gameplan in my book. This is partly due to adjustments in Juve's build-up play and partly because of the lack of occasions where Juve are playing risky passes when Vidal and Pogba are wrong side of the ball.
I'll be interested to see if this pattern continues when Pirlo returns, but Juve are looking significantly less likely to present opponents with counter-attacking chances that in previous seasons.
Juve looked a lot like last season until the first goal, as they were trying to smash through the middle of Atalanta too much, rather setting up the play to create space and find a clearer way to goal.
In the second half nothing was happening until Chiellini and Evra switched off and could have allowed Atalanta back in the game.
It's another game that I think could have been more straightforward defensively had Juve played with a back four. With the back three it was harder to know how to safely mark Denis and Boakye when Atalanta were trying to pull Juve wide to expose them against Marchisio and Bonucci through the centre of the pitch. At times Ogbonna went narrow to pick up Denis and leave Bonucci spare (which was the correct thing to do) but that wasn't done consistently. There was also a while in the first half when Bonucci and Ogbonna appeared to switch positions.
Today wasn't the best examply of this, but occurs to me that there is increasingly an onus on opposition teams to not simply sit deep and counter-attack when playing Juventus - if they have ambitions of actually getting a result and not just playing a damage-limitation game. Juve are now making so few meaningful errors in possession, that you cannot expect to get many counter-attacking chances. Not enough counter-attacking chances to constitute a legitimate gameplan in my book. This is partly due to adjustments in Juve's build-up play and partly because of the lack of occasions where Juve are playing risky passes when Vidal and Pogba are wrong side of the ball.
I'll be interested to see if this pattern continues when Pirlo returns, but Juve are looking significantly less likely to present opponents with counter-attacking chances that in previous seasons.
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