just looked at the table, not a defensive year in Serie A on the whole. Wonder if this is indicative of a change in the league style
Handball rule and Covid-19 played a significant part in this. This post-lockdown football is some of the stupidest shit I've ever seen in calcio, basically madness. It's not a coincidence.
Not sure if Sarri and the players are fully aware, but fans should be too - this is a different championship we are playing now. We can't play in our comfort zone and go through patches of games. It's one game at a time, get it right, like knock-out football. Maybe that's why we're so shit at it...lol.
We also seem to have problems in central defence that never end. De Ligt is clearly playing when he should be sat in the stands after surgery. Who knows how long Bonucci has been playing through that foot injury, his ass-tackles seemed to return in recent times when he was better before the lockdown. Chiellini coming in was earlier than expected - also doesn't say a lot for Rugani. Demiral still weeks away from being match fit, but no doubt he'll get thrown in early. Needs must.
Whether it will do any good or not I don't know, but the rule book has been ripped up a little bit. We've played some form teams in the last few games and really been found out at the back. After Milan teams can smell blood now and just go for us. Not all can do it like Atalanta or Sassuolo - these are the two teams that haven taken best to post-lockdown calcio, but we need to find a system to balance out the team. I had faith in Allegri doing that. Maybe they wouldn't have been typical 1-0s in this environment, but we would have won one of these last 3 games at least. I don't trust coaches who stick to a system even when the chips are down, you need an alternate plan. That is Arsenal-level coaching just trying to do the same thing and failing.
I have sympathy for Sarri in what he is working with at the moment, you can pick faults or issues with so many players, but it's still the job of the coach to hold things together.
I suppose at least the players showed some spirit to come away with a draw in that game rather than bottle it and lose 4-2 like in Milan. It seems like at best we're going to stumble over the finish line.
Just such random fucking football. Let's get this shit over with, roll on next season. I know CL is a completely different tournament in a normal season but it's just going to be more of this as far as Juve is concerned. It's attacking football and currently we suck at dealing with it.