I think that Capello's main problem is his inssistance of playing 4-4-2 even of the players cannot support such a formation. He is not willing to change it to 4-5-1 or 4-3-3 according to the state of health or the opponent team.
Add to that featuring unfit players, Zebina, Zlatan, Del Piero ..etc which either caused recurance of injury as in Del Piero and Zebina or delay in reaching optimum physical streangth as in Zlatan.
Favouring players such as Zlatan and even more dramatically Zebina where negletcting in form players like Mutu, Del Piero, Chielini and Balzaretti.
Made Juventus Vieira dependant. If vieira is off form we are impotant. I predicted this early in the season when Vieira was playing amazingly. He got suspended for one game and we were not able to do anything. Many said next game we will be back on track with vieira playing. I said well thats the point we have great players why become dependant on one player who's only been with the team for less than 2 months.
Just look at Capello's main formation:
------------------------ Buffon
Zebina ----- Thuram ---- Cannavaro --- Zambrotta
Camoranesi --- Emerson -- Vieira ---- Nedved
---------Trezeguet -------- Ibrahimovic
Deffensively:
CBs and DMs working together with SBs supporting from the sides.
So if the DMs are not working properly, as in Vieira not deffending and blocking offences the CBs will get abused. His deffensive plan B is that the SBs cover up the mess the DMs do. So whenever Vieira is off form, Zambrotta or/and Zebina are covering for him.
Offensively:
Depends on corsses from the pronouced wings and penetrations from a DM (aka Vieira since he is the only potentially creative DM we have). The aim of all our attaks is to reach our hitman David. Meaning all attacks have to end with him. Our attacks do not depend on central play making and shooting as much as wing crosses, and DM long balls. Which is ok.
Now this is his tactics. Plain and simple. We all said ok sounds good. Well it does not. The flaws are:
A- Zebina is not a player to depend on neither offensively nor deffensively.
B- Emerson is not God.
C- 100% depending on Vieira's form. If he is off form or not playing we are fucked. No proper long balls nor proper penetration. Thats because he is our only potentially creative midfielders.
When Vieira got off form the deffensive role and offesnive role got affected:
A- Offesnively:
The team started depending on Ibra who is not a creative player as much as a talented forward. Camoranesi started to drift into the midfield which left the flanks wide open. A gap was clear between the forwards and the midfield which was high aparent when the forwards lose the ball there is no immediate recoverey of posession. What made things go even worse, Zlatan got injured (+ him not being really onform). Capello instead of resting him till he recovers he continued to play with him as a primary choice. Which saw him limping out of the field few times in raw.
Whenever Del Piero was/is on the field, he creates more trouble to the opponent deffense because he is a creative player. When needed he can play as an offensive midfielder or a wide striker (as with NT). Add to that his extraordianry gift in finishing and set pieces.
Capello inssists on playing a flat 4-4-2 although the player this formation depend on (vieira) is off form and cannot serve this formation. If he changed his formation into 4-3-3 or 4-3-1-2 we would have done much better because then we wouldn't have to depend on Vieira.
B- Deffensively:
Vieira's off form series started with him losing his offensive creativity and strikers support. His deffensive role was not that much dependant. it was affected never the less. Things started to deteruate fast. He started to gain a card on every game. Emerson started to carry vieira's deffensive load, which saw him getting exhausted easily. Now since Vieira is not working offensively properly why didn't we use Giannichedda more often. He is deffensively better. Hell whenever he played our midfield was better offensively. So we did not use giannichedda, which has put load on the flanks. Whenever Zebina played we were like playing with 9 men rather than 11 (since vieira and Zebina are not doing anything). This caused leaking goals. Teams capable of pressing on us because we do not have proper DMs although we have two on the field (but not functioning). We could not attack because we did not have a pronounce offensive midfielder + playing unfit player like Ibra caused worsening of the situation.
This all was reflected on Del Piero. This made him the only hope. Because with his experience he can adapt to the match and go wide outside capello's formations and tactics to what suites the game. And this is the reason why we cannot score if he is not on the field. He has the experience and the creativity to pick Juve up and attack opponent teams.
This year we had the players to win the Champion's league, something we did not have during the past 10 years. Unfortunately our coach was not flexible enough to make it happen. Saying he is a terrible coach is not right. Saying he failed in capturing his target due to his rigidity and stubborness is absolutely spot on. Capello wants to play a formation that the squad he has at the moment are not capable to perform, instead of playing other formation that the squad can play and can win with it every single game.
Who agrees?
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