The depth passages of the Croatian (but also of the neo -purchase Ricci) could represent a tactic variant for the new Milan, as well as the sides or the Dai going with the Portuguese exterior
February 2022, Dusan Vlahovic has been a few days old at Juve and Massimiliano Allegri, Juve coach, crowns him: “With Haaland and Mbappé, he is one of the strongest center forward. He has extraordinary qualities and a great desire to improve, but Juve is a different pressure”. April 2024, Allegri is always in Turin, but for a short time, the profile of Thiago Motta is already glimpsed on the horizon. In an interview with the team, Vlahovic says: “I am lucky enough to work with Allegri, who is one of the strongest coaches of the last twenty years and knows how to talk to his players. It helps me a lot”. Allegri and Vlahovic were together with Juve for two and a half seasons, between February 2022 and June 2024. With Allegri, the Serbian played 99 games and scored 41 goals, together they won the Italian Cup of 2024. It cannot be said that there was an idyll between the two. In Vlahovic he did not polite that Allegri sometimes replaced him and snorted him. But Allegri exploited Vlahovic for what the Serbian was and is, a center forward with the door on his head. On the contrary, Thiago Motta, Allegri’s successor, demanded race, pressure and participation, so much so that, in November 2024, in retreat with Serbia, Vlahovic sent the Italian-Brazilian coach the message of the break: “For me, in the national team, it is easier because I play with Mitrovic, another tip, and because nobody orders me to chase the opponents”.
Max’s triangle
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If Vlahovic went to Milan, Allegri would not ask him to exhale in the work of breaking of the actions of others. And Vlahovic, in the Rossoneri, would find another tip with which to dialogue and divide honors and charges, Rafa Leao, even if the Portuguese is a wing, not a center forward-bis like Mitrovic. At the center of the Milan attack, in Allegri’s 4-3-3, Vlahovic would be fine. On his right he would have Pulisic, on the left Leao and behind Ricci as director and Modric as a left midfielder, with right -wing internal Fofana. It is easy to draw a “triangolone” with Modric at the bottom and with the Leao and Vlahovic in front, between the manufacturer and the center. A triangle of the Bermuda in which many opponents would risk disappearing. The ball of Ricci or Modric for Vlahovic in depth would be the most natural thing, but interesting dialogues could be triggered between Vlahovic and Leao, side of the one and cross of the other, with the Serbian to close the Dai and go. In any case, it is forbidden to yield Santiago Gimenez, because it is strong and because two center forward are better than one.