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Extended Clip - Will Assist Machine Filip Kostic Be Enough For Juventus To Challenge For Scudetto?
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Nima and Carlo analyse the impact assist machine Filip Kostic will have on Juventus and debate if his arrival is enough for Juventus to challenge for the Serie A title.
This is an extended preview of this weeks free Monday episode of The Italian Football Podcast which is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google podcasts. To listen to ALL full episodes of The Italian Football Podcast, go to Patreon.com/TIFP and become a Patron for only $2.99 USD per month (excluding VAT).
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Transcript
Introduction to the Podcast
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to the Italian football podcast.
Player Versatility: Costis' Role in Juventus
00:00:06
Speaker
Now, with Costis coming in, I think he'll be a really good player. And I think he allows Juve to play a back three. I think they can also play him as a winger in a back four and also as a fullback in a back four if you have a if you if you're right back again is becomes like a back three in the same way that Italy play with the Lorenzo.
00:00:27
Speaker
And
Juventus' Goal-Scoring Challenges
00:00:27
Speaker
what he will do is he will add a goal, he will add more goal threat to the Juventus team because Juventus have no goal. I mean,
Can Juventus Overcome Attacking Criticism?
00:00:34
Speaker
last season, I think they scored, was it 53 goals off the top of my head? I'm trying to remember when they scored 53 goals, which is just pathetic, absolutely pathetic. It just says it all about about, you know, allegories management, but also, you know,
00:00:46
Speaker
this Juventus team just doesn't have anybody that thinks Juventus can challenge for the Scudetto. Well, they are not going to challenge for the Scudetto with the current group of attacking the attacking threat that they have in this team. And and they they've actually got less of an attacking threat now this season and make it last season when you base on the players that have left. You know, Maratas left, you know, Pogba's come in, but but he's
Impact of Pogba's Injury on Juventus' Plans
00:01:09
Speaker
But he's injured, I mean the meniscus injured. That is a bad, that I criticise them for, because that's just bad planning, that's bad execution, but I can't criticise them for anything without having played again. But there's not enough goals in this team at all.
Kostich's Contribution and Experience
00:01:23
Speaker
Kostich will help that, because I mean his assist record over the last seasons has been brilliant. He's got 14 assists over the last two seasons,
00:01:33
Speaker
The season before that got 17 assists, got 12 the season before that. So he's often hitting close to double figures or above double figures for assists. I know he plays in a more advanced position and obviously Frankfurt in Bundesliga they play more attacking football than Allegri will play, but still those are great numbers. He's got decent goal. But the thing is he's also at the right age.
00:01:53
Speaker
He's in the right age in the sense that he's not coming in to be good in a few years. He's coming in as someone who's won a few titles with Frankfurt, European title Europa League, and he's coming in to Juve to be good now and hit the ground running. And I think he will. I really do think I really expect good things from him and Di Maria in the beginning in the Serie A, or overall in the Serie A if they're fit. I really do.
00:02:18
Speaker
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