The problems of Juventus’ uncohesive team

The situation that Juventus is experiencing is interesting to try to understand how it is possible that a team built to win the Champions League is not able at this time to play at its level and suffers the initiative of teams significantly inferior in quality.

As many have said, in this match against Lyon Juventus lacked in speed, determination and intensity of play. Many players were distracted on the pitch and Cristiano Ronaldo’s individualism was not enough to overturn the final result.

In this period, Juventus lacks the commitment and total dedication of the collective to achieving the performance and result goals, the essence of a successful team. Observing the behavior on the pitch, rarely and only in the final minutes of the matches, there is no physical or mental readiness to play the ball, react to a mistake or move to help a teammate.

Juventus is made up of some champions and others very good, all playing in their respective national teams. Now it’s a cohesive team, lacking a core group of players who can lead it. Successful teams always have a strong internal group for the moments of greater competitive stress, it remains only Bonucci who alone can not play this role effectively. Too many don’t have the look of a tiger (Betancourt, Rabiot, Pjanic, Quadrado) and seem to perform assigned tasks rather than playing a football match.

Leaders of a team cannot be Ronaldo, Dybala and Iguain, they are the stars shining thanks to the work of a team that supports them.

The second problem for Juventus is Sarri’s way of thinking. He said that he can’t make the team understand a concept as simple as that of speed, but I personally don’t understand what he wants to explain.

Speed can be differentiated in two aspects. The first, for example, refers to the fact that when a player suffers a foul he must get up immediately and be immediately ready for the next action or if he loses the ball he must quickly continue in the action. This is a concept that a professional footballer should express regardless of the type of team play. It is about combativeness and toughness that must always be present in every minute of the match.

The second aspect, on the other hand, concerns speed in relation to the type of game that the team has prepared during the week and each coach requires according to his philosophy.

It seems to me, that Juventus lacks the first type of speed that is the basis of competitiveness and if it is missing prevents any other type of reasoning, because the slowness makes the game predictable and easily counterbalanced by any team that is more reactive on the field even if of lower level.

I would suggest to Sarri to coach these days the heart of the players and not the schemes.

0 Responses to “The problems of Juventus’ uncohesive team”


  • No Comments

Leave a Reply