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PowerNedved

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With Caceres and Barzagli injured, and the great level Pereyra is showing, will Allegri place Vidal as an emergency RCB?. He has been used before in that position, I could see Romulo too playing there as an emergency solution.

--------------Buffon
------Vidal---Bonucci---Chiellini
-------------Marchisio
Lichst---Pereyra---Pogba---Asamoah
---------Tevez----Llorente

or

--------------Buffon
----Romulo---Bonucci---Chiellini
-------------Marchisio
Lichsteiner--Vidal--Pogba--Asamoah
----------Tevez----Llorente
 

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PowerNedved said:
With Caceres and Barzagli injured, and the great level Pereyra is showing, will Allegri place Vidal as an emergency RCB?. He has been used before in that position, I could see Romulo too playing there as an emergency solution.
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No.

Ogbonna will play or Juve will play with a back four.
 
Bjerknes

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Red said:
:boh:

Injuries/suspensions could dictate if Juve end up with few defenders available, but a full selection of midfielders/forwards.

Alternatively, there could be a particular game where Allegri decides that it is essential to play with a back four.
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I don't know. It's easier to stick with a formation when in doubt and if we win matches despite looking poor. We'll see, but I think Suns is right, the change will only come once we start to struggle. 3-5-2 against Malmo was evidence enough for me.
 

Zacheryah

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Aug 29, 2010
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"the struggle"

Thats probably why we give away nothing, and run over shit in the same formation once we decide to take a bit more risk.

We are doing great. This isnt the naive NFL



The back4 comes when barzagli and chiellini can play in it, and thats the last of it.
 
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X said:
NFL? :D american football is porbably a 1000 times more cerebral and analytical than football
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:agree:

I may enjoy futbol quite a bit more, but it's not even close to American Football in terms of analytics. There's a reason they have offensive and defensive coordinators up in the booth watching the game, calling in plays based on the defensive players, coverages, and formations they see in the game. There's a reason guys like Peyton Manning audible at the line, change plays with seconds left on the play clock in anticipation of blitzes and coverages.

Name a position in any other major sport that is as cerebral as Quarterback (or Middle Linebacker with pre snap adjustment calls)...
 
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Bjerknes said:
I don't know. It's easier to stick with a formation when in doubt and if we win matches despite looking poor. We'll see, but I think Suns is right, the change will only come once we start to struggle. 3-5-2 against Malmo was evidence enough for me.
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Given the lack of midfielders available for that game playing 3-5-2 was always likely.

I think you'd have had to play Coman or Giovinco to play a different shape in that game, so it was perfectly understandable to stick with the proven senior players and the shape that fitted most of them in well.

Once Allegri develops more faith in the newer/younger players, there's more chance of a change.

Pereyra, for instance, is doing well enough that the most obvious change in shape will be to 4-3-1-2 with Pereyra as trequartista.
 
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We will see the last of Pepe, Motta and Giovinco this season. On their final year contract, along with Sorensen and Martinez, I doubt we would renew any of them.
 
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