Its only pre-season, but I never seen a defender more uncomfortable in 3 man defence as Lucio is being for us so far, especially on the left of it, extremely nervy and shaky out there. Maybe different for him when he plays with Chiellini and Barzagli (though neither of these can do the central ball distributing task of the trio, closest is Barza), since so far he is playing with non CBs like Marrone, Licht or inexperienced Masi.
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He is, because Conte loves the 3 man defence option, and Bonucci is vital for that, I would be way less nervous about not replacing him if we went back to 4 man defence, but we wont. Neither Lucio, healthy Caceres or non CBs being put there come close to being reasurring replacements for me. Especially since we are going to play CL, stability is extremely key.