The left lane is only the starting box. Dalì the blue knows how to concentrate or break through in the band

Journalist

4 October – 15:04 – MILAN

The years pass, now three in black and white, and Andrea Cambiaso always remains a fundamental pawn from Juventus. Even when the lady’s coach changes, this is also the case with Tudor, and when the game philosophies and the opponents on duty vary, even when his condition is not optimal. Also against Milan. There will be a reason. Each year that passes the outside of the national team gives the impression of adding a new functionality to its Swiss knife, to slightly modify its game to be useful to the team in several different ways, ending moreover to increase its unpredictability rate for the opposite. Alexis Saelemaekers and the Rossoneri, in the specific case of tomorrow evening.

head and legs

At 8.45 pm at the Allianz Stadium the lady will in fact manage to manage a very launched devil after the victory of the last day on the reigning champions of Napoli and Igor Tudor knows that against a team more fit and more rested there will be a need to draw on every drop of energy and every little bit of inventiveness to maximize the chances of success after four consecutive draws of various kinds. In the Juventus house we continue to profess optimism, but inside the gates of the Continassa the coach does not allow anyone to spare himself, if not expressly requested by the medical staff. As for Cambiaso, in particular, its characteristics force him every time to exhausting games both physically and mentally. Tomorrow, as always. There will not only be to cover the whole band in a 3-4-2-1 without full backs, but also to blend the menings continuously to support the companions during the construction phase. Last year Thiago Motta loved him for that ability to be added to the director at the time of weaving the game plots and already Massimiliano Allegri – tomorrow opponent – had begun in 2023 to explore his desire to put order in a more central position. And then, attention to Andrea’s multipurpose quality, which against a great form formation like Milan can act as a crazy variable. Indeed, reasoned.

shoulder

On several occasions this year – as in the previous two – Juventus has given the impression of struggling to build a game with effective and fluidity: you want for lack of a pure director, you want for the reduced dynamism of the players without the ball, the management of ball possession is often sobbiting or slow, until it appears “random” in particularly complex situations. Against Milan it must be avoided. In this scenario, the contribution of Cambiaso assumes a primary importance for Tudor, a contribution potentially capable of multiplying the combinations to arrive towards the goal of Mike Maignan. The main direction duties remain in Manuel Locatelli, who appeared in a splendid shape on Wednesday evening in the house of Villarreal, but it will often happen that the Rossoneri midfield, square and expert with Luka Modric between Adrien Rabiot and Younsouf Fofana, suffocates the spaces in the visual field of the Juventus captain. Cambiaso, concentrating, can offer himself as a shoulder even just to move the opposing line and, why not, to take the initiative to cut the field horizontally to try to exploit the wide vision by triggering a partner or by oiling the collective phrasing.

More spaces

However, there is another factor to consider when it comes to the dynamism that offers Cambiaso, because by throwing himself forward, he often dialogues with Kenan Yildiz to deceive the Saelemaekers on duty, but when he concentrated free spaces for everyone. Sometimes the Turkish talent could be widening there, other times the left median will do it (Khephren Thuram or Weston McKennie) in a sort of exchange and even more often he will invite the defender behind him – if there are the conditions – to go forward and inherit the pendulum tasks from Andrea. In this, the always-president Lloyd Kelly is increasingly proving courage. It will be needed.



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