Juve, the Vlahovic misunderstanding and Tudor’s errors. Who loses against Lazio is at risk

Something broke. Or, rather, a lot needs to be fixed and done quickly: Como, for Juventus, is like a sentence. The Bianconeri give the sensation of being able to reach a point beyond which there is an insurmountable wall: this is how it happened on the lake. The misunderstanding arises from a summer spent waiting for Vlahovic’s farewell, announced but never consummated. A misunderstanding because Dusan remained out of contract and by staying he took away a lot of certainties within the attack: one or two strikers? Enhance David and bet on Openda or take advantage of the Serbian attacker’s good moments? Answers that have, in an instant, transformed into puzzles that are difficult to solve. From here, a throw-in market as if the ball weighed between economic parameters to be respected and choices to be made in order to give a complete meaning to the team: in the end, the verdict was to enrich, perhaps too much, the offensive line, but to have few, very few alternatives in the middle of the pitch where, usually, the fate of the seasons is decided.

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The image that the last minutes of the sad journey to Como gives us is emblematic: two attackers in progress, doubling of Fabregas’ boys and Openda spectator on the sidelines. Igor Tudor, the coach who suffered his second defeat in the championship between the end of the last adventure and the one that began two months ago, is looking to Madrid, a thrilling stage on the agenda on Wednesday evening: but the Croatian coach must look, above all, to Rome, to the appointment in the Biancoceleste capital which will take place next Sunday. Its future will pass through the Eternal City because a possible disastrous reverse would put its immediate future at serious risk.

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His mistakes? Not being able to find the right formula so that a team, however, full of possible solutions up front, is able to get through the matches without worrying pauses within them, but with the awareness of being able to manage them while avoiding imbalances between the departments: with every counter-offensive, this Juve is in trouble, with every restart there is the serious possibility that they won’t reach the finish line, a shot, a conclusion, a dangerous attempt. Individuals must be put in a position to express themselves at their best: in part, Tudor has completed the mission, but to a large extent he still hasn’t and is now talking about turning towards man defense on set pieces. And in the background there is a case, the renewal of Yildiz, which weighs, quite a lot, on the company’s strategies.