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Teaser - Juve Struggle, Allegri Frustrates (Ep. 250)
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John and Carlo cover a wide array of topics following Juve's dreadful 0-0 draw to Sampdoria, Max Allegri's tactical struggles, Roma's win against Cremonense, previewing Saturday's Juve-Roma clash, transfer market spending and much more.
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Transcript
Allegri's Tactics Under Scrutiny
00:00:14
Speaker
Okay, biggest allegory supporter, Carlo, we know you, and you were not done here on Monday, and obviously that was before the entertaining masterclass that Juve put on for us on Monday evening against Sampdoria. What did you think of that?
00:00:25
Speaker
The following is a clip from this week's Italian football podcast.
00:00:33
Speaker
It was actually on holiday when the match was on, but I was getting bombarded by messages from everyone just hammering into a legory about how bad it was. So I knew it was bad.
Tactical Identity and Structure Issues
00:00:43
Speaker
And then when I did rewatch it, it was even worse than I thought. It was shocking.
00:00:51
Speaker
It was shocking and it just underlined everything that I've been saying, we've been saying about Allegri since he returned to Juventus. The fact that there's still no identity, there's just no structure at all in the game. Juventus are incapable of keeping the
Midfield Challenges and Possession Loss
00:01:06
Speaker
ball. I think they had something like 41% possession in the first half against a really poor Sampdoria team who are probably going to fight against relegation.
00:01:14
Speaker
The midfield is quite literally non-existent. We've seen that image. I got sent that image during the first, I actually put it out on Twitter first and then some others followed, where there's just a gaping hole in the middle of the field and there's just no midfield. Juventus just find it impossible to get out of their half passing the ball as soon as there's even a medium press from the opposition. And let's be honest, Sampdoria are hardly Liverpool or Man City when it comes to pressing you.
00:01:38
Speaker
You know, it just makes you wonder, you know, what the hell is Allegri doing in training in terms of structuring the team positionally, in terms of its movements, in terms of, you know, how they use the ball.
Lack of Creativity and Reliance on Long Balls
00:01:49
Speaker
And I mean, his only solution was literally a long ball up to the Wlawicz, or most of the time was a diagonal pass out wide to to quadrado or Kostich.
00:01:58
Speaker
And, you know, there's no creativity at all. They didn't create barely anything. They had less than one. I think there hasn't been like 0.7 or 0.8 XG. They had less XG than Sampdoria. Blauwitsch had nine touches in the whole game. Only three touches in the first half. One of them was from kickoff.