Spalletti after Lecce-Juve: “You can’t play without Vlahovic”

Dusan Vlahovic had everything and everything together on this Saturday evening: he scored, he had a goal disallowed, he wasted a giant opportunity, he won in Lecce with Juve and received a non-trivial compliment from Luciano Spalletti. “We suffered the lack of Vlahovic like hotcakes – the Juventus coach said at the end of the match -. You can’t play football without someone with his characteristics, without a physical, strong player who scores goals. David also scores goals but the ball is on him…”. The sentence was interrupted by a back and forth, but the meaning is clear: you can’t give David the ball with that ease. Prediction: Dusan will be the starter throughout this season finale.

shoulder pads and the match

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Spalletti’s analysis of Lecce-Juve is centered on two concepts: discontinuity and concreteness. “We copied and pasted many other matches – says Spalletti -. We play dominant pieces, then there always comes the moment of superficiality in which you lose your characteristics, you miss incredible passes for the level of football we have. We can’t maintain concentration over time, one of our matches is all a seesaw. A match like this cannot end 1-0. How many times have we passed the ball to each other with enormous advantages? It was enough to choose between two solutions, instead we chose the third. And we do it so bad.” Ah, another theme sentence: “The players who do the number but then have to take breaks are the ones who occasionally lose their execution. We have to train this thing. And we have to build better from the back. If Di Gregorio hadn’t made those two saves…”.

Juventus market

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Spalletti’s last look is beyond May, beyond the championship: on the transfer market. “Hearing the rumours, it seems that 18 out of 25 players will be changed – he said -. The players, on the other hand, must know that there is a serious project, because changing so many of them is tough. Juve has spent two or three lire in the last few transfer markets, it is not easy to get a deep dive into the team, things must be done in a targeted manner. The players must know that many will remain”. The big question is whether Vlahovic will also return.