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Extended Clip - Have Juventus Reached A Dead-End With Max Allegri?
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Carlo Garganese explains why Juventus reached a dead-end with Max Allegri after a severe drubbing from Atletico Madrid.
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Transcript
Introduction
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to the Italian football podcast.
Exaggerated Reactions to Italian Football?
00:00:06
Speaker
I know Nima's going to say everybody's overreacting because we know... Yes, they are. But Carlo, let's start with you because we can always count on you for a good Alegri cake. So you go first.
Juventus' Performance Issues
00:00:18
Speaker
Well, listen, I think it's got to the point now where, yes, Juventus need to bring in players. That is clear. But it almost doesn't matter who they bring in now, because it doesn't matter. Alegri, I mean, the game against Othello-Cain Madrid,
00:00:32
Speaker
You can say it's only a friendly. It was absolutely embarrassing. It was embarrassing. They lost 4-0. It should have been 8. It should have been 10 because they missed a penalty, Atletico Madrid. Chesney pulled off some wonder saves, some miracle saves. And the last two performances against Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, embarrassing.
00:00:52
Speaker
Six goals conceded, none scored, just one shot on target in both games for Juventus. Nothing created at all in either game. And Juventus go into this
Critique of Allegri's Management Style
00:01:03
Speaker
season. They're just in complete crisis. Allegri, he still has no idea what his team is, what his formation is. He's been here a year now. There's still zero identity at all, zero style of play, zero patterns of play, zero cohesion.
00:01:19
Speaker
zero ability as a team to control the play, to dominate the midfield, to string any moves together, any passing moves together, to create anything. It's horrible to watch. And the worst thing is, as well as being absolutely horrendous in possession, a few times that they actually have possession of the ball, but they're also horrendous out of possession, which is something that Allegri
00:01:44
Speaker
defenders always say, well, at least Allegri, you know, he has them defensively tight, you know, they're strong, he'll make them solid, you know, that they'll make them hard to be, you know, people that say, oh, you know, Allegri pops the bus and he plays Katanachi. They say, yeah, but at least they're hard to score against. They're not there. They're incredibly easy to score against. You watch the games against Real Madrid and Atletico.
00:02:06
Speaker
Even though they're playing deep, they're so open, so easy to play through them. I mean, look at the goals that they can see and just see how structurally, from a defensive point of view, what a mess you've entered.
Defensive Failings of Juventus
00:02:16
Speaker
So Danilo was two meters behind the rest of the team for the first Maratic, Elvaro and Maratic scored a hat trick, by the way.
00:02:21
Speaker
the same Maratta that couldn't score for his life for Juventus. The second Maratta goal, he went clean through on goal from an Atletico Madrid throw-in in the Atletico half, one straight throw-in down the byline, put him clean through on goal. And you just look at the team and it's like the players have never played together ever again. I mean, Bremen Benucci looked like two players who have never played with one another and that's because they haven't.
00:02:47
Speaker
But the actually the rest of the team all look like they never played together ever before. Wlawicz, he looks completely broken already up front, you know, seven, eight months after joining. He already, you know, he looks he looks completely broken. So so, yeah, it's a it's a complete mess. And I have zero confidence.
Future Prospects for Juventus
00:03:06
Speaker
Season starts this this this weekend. I have no confidence at all. Juventus going into this new season.
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Speaker
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