Pepe's performances havent even been that good.
I don't think Pepe is playing significantly better this season. It's just that the team is functioning well, so his performance level appears to have gone up.
Last season, because the mechanisms of the team weren't working, Juve had to rely on an individual doing something special to score (Krasic, a lot of the time).
This season, the team is much better organised, so are scoring goals through good movement and keeping a high tempo to put teams under pressure, which suits Pepe infinitely more than having to doing something technically brilliant.
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