Allegri and Vlahovic, the relationship between criticism, benches and 41 goals

When you say to leave slowly. The relationship between Massimiliano Allegri and Dusan Vlahovic began with this sentence: “Vlahovic is intelligent and awake. With Haaland and Mbappé he is among the strongest center forward in the world”. Equal (and moreover, Fiorentina DV9 seemed ready to mark 10 years of Italian football). From there they have been accelerations and braking, nice phrases and stings, sometimes even for interposed person. Overall, certainly not the relationship of the century, not put with Guardiola, not Cr7 with Zidane. Yet Allegri and Vlahovic after a year of distance could find himself and then he wants to look back and wonder: what was they? who did together?

41 goals in 30 months

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Vlahovic remained with cheerful two and a half seasons, scoring 41 goals in white and black stripes. They are not an infinity but not very few. Let’s put it this way: few for an 8-10-12 million striker per season but still a regular double-digit loot in the league. The most important, the most symbolic, the goal of May 15, 2024 in Rome: the Italian Cup final, Juventus beats Atalanta, decides DV9. It was Max’s last game with Juventus. The data say that Vlahovic with Allegri has no special numbers: score 0.52 goals every 90 minutes and in the games played without Max (specifically with Tudor, Italian and Prandelli) has reached 0.71. With Allegri, however, he kicks more, number that indicates two things: the occasions with Max are less clear and Dusan is less precise. Overall, the coach who made Vlahovic more was Italian: 24 games from 0.88 goals every 90 minutes.

the relationship between the two

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Vlahovic does not change: at 25 he is a defined player, as shown by touches by area. It can improve in details but has clear characteristics: various the right and gives its best in the area and immediate vicinity. Allegri does not by chance raised his thumb. Vlahovic will not be his favorite striker – Max has had several champions … – but he prefers it to experimental solutions, not tested in the Italian championship. Allegri knows that DV9 is not the perfect striker, he could play more with the team and technically he has limits, but he knows him, he knows that Vlahovic knows the address for the door and has physical to help the team trace the field.

goals and benches

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In the two and a half years at Juve those two had good moments and others … less. The debut, for example, splendid: 6 February 2022, Vlahovic’s goal at Verona at the Stadium, with the world sure that that would be the first stage of a great story. And again, February 22, goal at the first in the Champions League against Villarreal. Until April everything more or less well, with Allegri committed to braking, not to overdo it, to say that Dusan is still young and must be protected. In 2023, however, the problems arrived, the cursed pubalgia, the goals that in the championship absent from February to May, then the benches to make Milik and especially Kean play. Symbolic because Vlahovic has never spoken badly of Allegri but gradually ended in himself and in his mistakes, he intrusively, made that phrase on Haaland and Mbappé an overcome memory. The last memory is the phrase of Giovanni Galeone a few days ago, the Master of Allegri, the man who shares thoughts and visions: “Dusan is technically zero, he cannot stop a ball and earns one million a month”. Away, mister, let’s not exaggerate.