Marchisio is certainly not a better player than Pirlo during any year in the Conte era. There really is no comparison in terms of vision, possession keeping and passing range. Pirlo is the best player at that in the world. Marchisio is not even on the map. You are comparing Carrick to Scholes.
Pirlo was excellent in his first two seasons under Conte. But the 3rd and the Allegri season, he was significantly falling back.
Marchisio has made exceptional development in the cdm spot. We have seen several assists comming of passes over or trough the defence when the opponent tried to push up. He is equally good at keeping possession, and has always had an excellent passing range.
Certainly, its not those swift accurate pensil stokes Pirlo had, but he's always been a great passer and has improved on that regard.
Last season, Marchisio's performances in the midfield have several times be considered world class, so you are really insulting when comming up with "comparing carrick to scholes"
I know you dislike Marchisio, dont understand things. But thats downright insulting to the best midfielder in serie a of the 14/15 season.
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We so gonna fail in europe with this annoying 3-5-2. We need to control the ball to makes this formation kind of work. AS &JGC needs to be deep so they're gonna need to be covert, both.
What is this nonsense that we cant play 4-3-1-2 with an AM. We reached UCL with this formation and we were awful in 3-5-2 with Tevez, Pirlo and the best Vidal we ever saw.
Your unneccecary post, is of very poor quality.
There is nothing wrong with 4312. Please join the list of people masturbating on the formation, and only the formation, cause of the formation !
In reality, a coach will play the formation that suits his players the most. for the 4312 We needed a cam or ss that could ask the ball and hold it, to then distribute it. Tevez was excellent at this. Even if he was not playing well, he was our connection point, who came asking the ball, and allowed us to move up. Pereyra as a cam cant do that, but because we ha Tevez it didnt matter.
Currently, tevez is gone, and we dont have an am or ss that can do that job. Dybala has a very different playstyle and requires an other player to do this task.
And because we dont have anyone that can do it, we arent playing 4312 for the time beeing.