With Sevilla just a tie for first place in the group: Winning the technical choices
LUCIANO CREMONA
Hands up the Juve fan, upon reading the official formation of Juventus a few minutes before the match with the City, not to have exclaimed:" But why not play Cuadrado and Morata? ". In this season, in fact, the Colombian in particular, in the eyes of the more it seemed the real added value - Dybala apart - that can guarantee new gaming solutions, numerical superiority in quality and play speed in forward . And so it was, and it will be again. But Massimiliano Merry , which has a year now it is taking more than a few pebbles from shoes after the cold reception of people black and white after the departure of Count, had again reason .
He chose the 3-5-2 , which is not more module that Earl took to extremes when it called it a 3-3-4. To Allegri is a dress that fits the current game to game situations, and the Old Lady this dress fits perfectly, slipping into a 4-4-2 tidy and comfortable stages where you have to close ranks. Good choice, rewarded by the quality and leg Alex Sandro , and after acclimatization is showing that the amount spent from Marotta to bring it in Turin maybe it was not so excessive. And then there is Mandzukic : maybe someone forgets that the Croatian has scored in a Champions League final, for example. Or that in the big games rarely betrays. This season marked on 5 occasions, which coincided with 5 successes Juventus . Morata, started on the bench, entered with the right look, no nose, but with the desire to prove to be worth the holder 11 also match well. L ' attitude , in short, has been commendable.
Juve goes. In the second round, and maybe by the first of the group: just draw with Sevilla in Spain. Can be done. The performance of individual - by Pogba , sumptuous, Buffon , incredible and unsurpassed - are the messages that warn everyone: Juve has returned. And if in the Champions League, just as Buffon says, "before there are only Barça and Bayern", also the opponents in the league must begin to deal with the Old Lady. That when he hears the music of the Champions is exalted: if I put the same strength in Serie A will be trouble for everyone. This, the real challenge for Allegri.
STATISTICS JUVENTUS
- Only Paul Pogba (4) has made more assists decisive Alex Sandro this season Juventus (all competitions).
- Juventus have won the last eight races where it went ahead at home in the Champions League.
- Juventus qualifies to the knockout stage for the seventh time in his last nine appearances at the Champions League.
- More generally, the Bianconeri, as old as the modern Champions, have passed the round of 14 in the Champions 18 holdings (The other two eliminations in a first gironcino 2000/01, the other in the second gironcino 2001/02).
- was out of the Champions League 2008/09 that Juventus did not qualify to the knockout stage with at least one round to spare.
- Juventus are unbeaten in their last five meetings against the official Manchester City (3V 2N).
- Man City have never scored more than one goal in six games played so far against Juve.
- Juventus are unbeaten in their last 12 Champions League matches played at the Stadium (8V 4N) - the last defeat came against Bayern Monaco in April 2013.
- The Juve have kept clean sheets in their last three home matches in this competition.
- Juventus have lost just one of their last 15 Champions League matches (9V 5N), the end of last June against Barcelona.
- game number 100 for Patrice Evra in the Champions League - Evra became the second French player to reach this milestone after Thierry Henry (112).
- Mario Mandzukic scored two goals in three Champions League matches played with Juventus .
- In all competitions in which Mandzukic was on target, Juventus has always won the game (5 of 5).
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