There are reports Juventus could go all-out attack and change system against Inter, using Paulo Dybala, Alvaro Morata and Dusan Vlahovic together, scrapping disappointing midfielders.
It kicks off at the Allianz Juventus Stadium in Turin on Sunday at 19.45 UK time (18.45 GMT).
Max Allegri already confirmed Leonardo Bonucci will be on the bench, so Giorgio Chiellini is going to partner Matthijs de Ligt.
There are reports on Sky Sport Italia and Sportitalia that Max Allegri will shake things up with a new 4-2-3-1 formation.
Denis Zakaria has recovered ahead of schedule from a muscular injury and could start with Manuel Locatelli, dropping the disappointing Arthur Melo and Adrien Rabiot.
Instead, Juan Cuadrado can be moved into a more advanced role with Dybala and Morata supporting Vlahovic.
Luca Pellegrini is suspended, with Federico Chiesa, Weston McKennie, Kaio Jorge and Marley Ake injured.
Inter have a full squad at their disposal, because Marcelo Brozovic and Stefan de Vrij have now recovered from muscular issues they sustained against Liverpool.
While the Croatia international is expected to start, De Vrij probably won’t be risked, instead Danilo D’Ambrosio can be used in the back three.
Ivan Perisic and Matteo Darmian are the favourites rather than Robin Gosens and Denzel Dumfries to take the wide roles, with Edin Dzeko and Lautaro Martinez upfront.
Probable line-ups
Juventus (4-2-3-1): Szczesny; Danilo, De Ligt, Chiellini, Alex Sandro; Locatelli, Zakaria; Cuadrado, Dybala, Morata; Vlahovic
Inter (3-5-2): Handanovic; D’Ambrosio, Skriniar, Bastoni; Darmian, Barella, Brozovic, Calhanoglu, Perisic; Lautaro Martinez, Dzeko
— Alfredo Pedullà (@AlfredoPedulla) April 2, 2022
This mean, Juve will all out defend
Got to love the spin that PhD Max brings to the table. Tomorrow’s formation will really be 10-0-1, hoof the ball to Dusan, pray for a goal, defend, sit back and let Sideways, back, back, down, down to gift Inter all 3 points in the 91st minute lol.
Whose idea is this headline? This is the funniest headline i ever read in FI for a long time looool
Allegri’s idea of all-out attack:
1: Push 3 men forward for ten minutes, and score once.
2: Sit back, with Vlahovic as a spare left-back, and try to hold on for 80 minutes.
3: Concede late in the game, and barely cling on for a 1 – 1 draw.
4: Claim “we were the best team at one stage”, and “we were unlucky to concede so late on”, and “we were comfortable till they scored”.
This going to be a lovely game we must beat inter
I thought April’s fool was on 1st of April.
I wish Juve’s fans could go all out attack on Juve’s management including allegri and CEO Rabiot
All you trolls crack me up. Commenting on the article as if you know anything. What a bunch of children you all are.
FORZA JUVE
I think this is the best formation against a 352 formation. Just hope Sandro and Danilo can control inters wide players. I personally wouldn’t choose Sandro as his defending isn’t great.
@J10B
You better seek that help cuz u clearly don’t understand humor
@ NJC
You’re the type of fan who would defend Allegri tactics before Villareal match
@Brian Yes I am, and I will tell you why: because Allegri has more knowledge about this game in his little finger then you or me or anybody else writing comments here will ever have. His so called bad tactics gave us 5 scudettos, 4 cup titles and 2 supercup titles during his last spell. So before you criticise him, or any other coach, ask yourself one question: how many titles have you won? My guess is jacksh*t
Forza Juve
Forza Mister Allegri
NJC sets a good example – apart from the swears 🙂
From an Inter fan
@Njc
But that’s quite some time ago. Those titles were won when Juventus had by far the best squad in Italy. They were amongst the top 5 teams in Europe too, for a few years.
But you talk as if he’s immune to criticism. He isn’t. He gets paid a fortune to manage them, and the commenters here – some of whom might help pay his wages, as all fans do – don’t get paid anything.
If you can’t see that Allegri is too reactive/scared/negative, then you either don’t get it or are willfully blind.
Capello was way out of date by the time he was leaving Juventus, with some of the worst dinosaur tactics I’ve ever seen when Juve were garbage in the CL in 2006. Would you bring him back now just because he was good once?
The game moves on – time for Allegri to get up to speed too. Because if Capello can fail and fade away, so can Allegri. He’s not immune to it. It happens all players and managers eventually. No exceptions.
@Njc
You’re definitely in Denial . first of all I’m not a coach , I’m just a Juve fan and I can’t win anything lol.It’s not my job to win , but I can definitely spot a bad coach .
Secondly , Allegri’s prior success with Juve was definitely build upon Conte’s team, tactics , ideas and success. Give any manager Buffon , Barzagli , Chielini , Bonnuci , Sandro, Vidal , Pirlo , Pogba , Dybala , Tevez and Morata in their best years while Milan and Inter are deep in financial problems and can’t buy anyone and surely you will win serie A .
But then, You wanna see when Allegri actually played his own game ?! with his own mindset ? Finals with Real Madrid and Barcelona, he got humiliated just like Villareals second leg cause he is simply too afraid to risk . Whether you wanna get out of denial and stop defending him it’s up to you , but that doesn’t change the reality.
I’m a die-hard Juve fun, been watching Juve for four decades and I can definitely tell Pirlo was far better than Max. As much as I want Juve to win tonight and also win Serie A , I really want max to leave Juve Cause I really doubt Juve will ever win UCL with his mindset
@NJC
by the way
Winning Serie A for Juve was nothing new . The whole point of buying players like CR7 for Allegri was to help him win UCL because he COULDN’T
Don’t u see that ?
If he was good enough why did the sack him ? cuz he couldn’t win that damn UCL bruh . now go have fun with coppa italia and Serie A . no one cares about that
@Brian, bruh. I find it ignorant to think that buying one player would suddenly bring us the UCL title, bruh. Especially when that player is a diva who only plays for himself, bruh. And when you put that selfish, past-his-prime, manchild in a team full of players who play and fight for each other, as it should be, then you won’t get any results, bruh.
And how can you say that nobody cares about the seria a and the company italia, bruh? If that is true, then why are some many teams trying to win it, bruh? If you don’t do well in the league, you don’t get to play in the UCL, bruh.
And yes, I’m trolling you with all the “bruh”.
@Brian Takes a sick mind to find that “joke” funny