The turning point of the Juventus season passes from the coach’s ability to exploit all the offensive potential of his squad. For the moment, with the two new purchases it hasn’t succeeded yet
Almost 60 million problems. In Juve who has lived a market closure with a bang and is back for a week on the Russian mountains (from the comebacks against Inter and Dortmund to the bad peer of Verona), there is a question that circulates between the fans: will Igor Tudor manage to manage a 60 goals in the last season and exploit an overall investment (for David and Opennda) of 58.1 million?
Tudor and the abundance in attack
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The question, as seen especially in the last week, is lawful. As long as only the Canadian and Vlahovic had available, the Juve coach had made clear choices: David owner and Dusan “great reserve” by two goals from two games. The arrival of Opennda, however, a little complicated the plans to him because he forced him to mediate between the abundance of men, the need not to devalue the investments made by the club and his beliefs, which for four seasons have not changed. Tudor, in fact, since 2021-22 has “baptized” the 3-4-2-1 as its reference form and has never changed it. The Croatian coach is aware of it (“Now there is a job to be done, on my part, to make the most of the squad I have. This means, at times, to play even in a different way but it takes time”, had said on the eve of the match against Inter), but the road still seems quite long. Also because the first experiments have not given the desired effects.
Juve, the characteristics of Opennda and David
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On the other hand, the Juventus technician clearly clearly has the characteristics of the three offensive players he has available. “I think Open is a player who needs space, he has to go where he wants. For me he must always have spaces in front and freedom to attack. He can play right or left trocar, but on a football different from what he should do a great team: he can only play there if you are low and games on the counterattack,” he had explained on the Belgian ex Leipzig. “David can play from second tip, as done at Lille or in the national team, not as a midfielder. Vlahovic instead in my opinion can do both things, perhaps a little less well behind but both things,” he had said on the Canadian and Serbian. On the field, however, Tudor never put his attackers in the conditions he had expressed in front of the microphones.
Juve is an attack on 60 goals: how to exploit it
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Against Inter, Opennda entered when Inter (forward 3-2) has stopped crushing the bianconeri to the limit of their area; Against Dortmund he played in a formation that has practically never built an action on the counterattack (and came out at the dawn of the crazy final); Finally, against Verona, he entered to make the center forward found himself playing from outdoor outdoor to the final assault. Similar destiny for David, often finding himself acting as adapted on the trocar, or where according to his coach he makes less. Thus, the two attack strokes of the summer of Juve found themselves playing just 119 and 91 minutes on the last week respectively: less than half. And without ever being able to engrave. The turning point of the Juventus season, however, also passes from Tudor’s ability to solve these almost 60 million problems.
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