Massimiliano Allegri was definitely not impressed by Weston McKennie, who wasted a huge goal opportunity in the first half of Juventus–Napoli.
The Bianconeri are 1-0 down at the break but could have taken the lead in the opening minutes of their home clash against Napoli.
USMNT international Weston McKennie had a chance to put his side ahead with a free header on the corner from six yards but sent it wide. The former Schalke 04 man was almost as desperate as his coach Massimiliano Allegri who could not believe the ball didn’t go in.
“How did he miss that?” the Italian tactician asked his staff members, according to DAZN.
Juventus fans booed their players after the half time whistle. Only five points divided the Old Lady and the Partenopei before the match with Max Allegri’s man chasing a top four spot.
Juventus return to the pitch on Sunday against Roma while Napoli will meet Sampdoria at the Stadio Maradona.
Weston McKennie shot out of a cannon to start Juve game, should have scored on header. Love how he consoled the post on the miss. #JuveNapoli pic.twitter.com/I9rNaHnvam
— Maximiliano Bretos (@MaxBretosSports) January 6, 2022
That is what happens when you buy rubbish players.
At least he had chance to score, unlike morata
Morata should go to Barca.
4th spot will be even more difficult to achieve and probably not happening. If it goes down to the wire Napoli have the better head to head. Allegri is not at fault for some players not being the Juve material of old. That said after getting the equaliser the team sat back on the counter. That is the coach showing his philosophy, too scared to take the risk knowing they needed the win more then Napoli. No cojones to take the bull by the horns and this team playing counter attacking football is a joke, considering they have no speed, control and precision to play that way.
Your comments are spot on Tyrone.
Allegri is an out dated coach, who constantly refuses to understand football has changed completely, his game plan is simply the counter, and aimless running, and let the players create something, if u watch them u notice they do not have a game plan or means of creating scoring chances by playing as a unit…..
Unfortunately u all are saying truth. Getting depay instead of morata we get a lot of creativity, something allegri knows nothing about. His head would probably explode with all those attacking options, now he has immobile morata and he is calm.
Give Allegri the keys to Manchester City and he will make all the attacking players learn how to sit deep in the trenches. Mahrez will learn how to play as a holding midfielder, Gundogan will be banned from cutting into the box and Rodri will be their new center half.😂
Understand that histoty does not lie. Your club has an onwer that is more interested in a European Super League than winning a Serie A or Champions’ League trophy. Understand that your owner made a fatal decision to buy Ronaldo at 34 years of age for $99 million, 3.5 years ago, and effectively damage the foundations created and built over a 7 year period with Conte and Allegri, by manipulating his club directors, players and fans to believe that the fault was with Allegri, and then failed to win a Champions’ League trophy with a geriatric in footballing terms, for 3 years under 3 different managers, and also seeing that Sarri and Pirlo were not on the same planet as Allegri and Conte in terms of tactics and winning games with a good defensive team, and with players who knew when and how to defend and attack to win games. As a result a 5 time league championship manager is blamed for players like Weston McKennie’s performance, when can’t score from 2 meters from goal. Who signed this imposter? Was it Pirlo? Was there this hatred of Pirlo because of his ability to play beautiful football which started the rot of going backwards in Serie A from May 2020 to May 2021?
Please know the history of your club, and if you agree with what I have said, be honest with yourselves about how things have happened, rather than delude yourselves with the current state of the clubs performances. It’s not Allegri’s fault that Pirlo’s team is not good enough for this season, it’s not Allegri’s fault that Agnelli wants to create another League in Europe so that he can ruin all the other lower ranked teams in the continent and make football an elite club game, and them make the current Juventus a mid table team with this type of modus operandi for the past 2-3 years.