Massimiliano Allegri was rated 5/10 by all three Italian sports papers, with media debating Juventus‘ sterile possession and the coach’s use of substitutions against Villarreal.
Juventus lost 3-0 against Villarreal in Turin last night and were eliminated from the Champions League Round of 16 for the third successive season. Max Allegri refused to blame his players during his post-match interviews but looked irritable when journalists suggested that the Old Lady’s campaign had been disastrous.
Italian sports papers offered their verdict on the Italian tactician highlighting Juventus’ shortcomings against Villarreal last night. To be fair, papers are not too harsh on Allegri as they all rate him 5/10.
‘Juventus had a few chances in the first half, followed by a sterile ball possession that he doesn’t really like. Useless because it didn’t shift the balance,’ was the comment on La Gazzetta dello Sport.
‘Juventus sank as soon as Emery put more quality in,’ wrote Tuttosport.
‘On the other hand, Allegri waied to go down before introducing Dybala. He lost badly a game that Juventus could have won in the first half.’
As per Il Corriere dello Sport, the ‘curse continues after eliminations against Porto and Lyon.
‘Juventus inexplicably melted and were again eliminated too early in the competition. A huge shock.’
The Old Lady are seven points behind Serie A table leader Milan and the Coppa Italia seems to be their only credible target left this season.
Not a huge shock that they’re out, but the scoreline was.
But it’s a problem for all Italian sides in the CL – they’re all basically hopeless.
Allerġija should have made the change much earlier.
Coaches think too much of next match.
Serie a is just weaker.
Juve didn’t have a full subs bench, and the se was the case of the other Italian teams in the competition.
Today, the sub alternatives were 38yo Chiellini who hadn’t played a game, Dybala who hadn’t played a game and poor Kean.
With that said a sub when Emery was making his would have helped.
Allegri should have brought on more intensity in the second half. He should have made a sub before or immediately after Emery did. A 4/10 for him imo. Its his first season though….but he’s gotta evolve into the modern game a bit.
People who dismiss Spanish football have to explain how the Spanish teams do well in both European competitions.
That means that La Liga gets BOTH open and expansive football AND European success……
La Liga also has half the number of transfers of Serie A. This season just 20 Series A teams managed 758 departures and 317 arrivals (average of 50 transfers per team). The 20 La Liga teams managed 306 departures and (ok) 310 arrivals (average of 30 transfers per team). Sure many of those involve just ruining youth player careers but it’s all disruptive and incompatible with a competitive, coherent squad.
Allegri is defensive and oldschool. Juventus need a clone of Chiesa. Rabiot is not good enough and not a winger.
Imagine this team in a 442
Cuadradro, De Ligt, Bremer, Danilo
Chiesa-clone?, two of Zakaria, Arthur, Locatelli, Chiesa
Dybala, Vlahovic
Gasperini as a coach.
Allegri did great. We should’ve been 3-0 up at halftime, but that’s football. People who criticize Allegri didn’t see the game. Both times we outplayed Villareal, who barely had any chances. We just ran out of energy in the second half because we’ve been playing with the same team for two months because of injuries.
If your at home why not go for it and attack! Italian mentality is always win by 1 goal margin and defend.
What game were people watching that think Juventus was defensive. Villarreal played their typical defensive Atlético Madrid like game. Allegri substituted far too late, especially taking Rugani off after (not before) he gave away the penalty. The people at the top need to go, starting with Nedved and probably Agnelli. That said Serie A is way behind in quality and money nowadays.
Juve lost the game because they were to laboured. They didn’t move the ball quick enough and their was not enough movement off the ball. Until they start playing with more intensity and at a higher tempo they will not progress in this competition. They also need to add to the squad in all areas of the park
Oh dear! Nevermind.
Played well until Rugani gave the penalty. Disappointed but hope they can win Serie A which would be a miracle. Were never going to win the CL. Too many injuries. Keep Allegri but the management need to go as they wanted the super league
5/10 is way too generous. He needs to be sacked immediately!
They would be better off going out of the competition now rather than getting whipped by teams such as City or Bayern.
The comments from people about Serie A being weaker or La Liga being strong are comments made by people who are reacting. La Liga teams can blow hot and cold, they can struggle in a league season but have success in Europe, and vice versa. Villareal have made transfers and are looking better, but regardless of their quality there is a lack of it when these teams play Real Madrid and Barcelona. That is not because of how good those two teams always are, but because the political makeup of La Liga after Perez’s return. Anyone who paid attention should have been able to see La Liga was the best league in the world, until it nose-dipped.
Juventus‘ front office people suck. Allegri? I thought he took the two years to take in football, open up his mind and his potential to work. It should have been clear how impossible that was given that what he did was GO BACK TO JUVENTUS. He still wastes one of the world’s great talents, relegating him to a cog when needed. They now have a special striker and they still got nothing going in that attack. No, Arthur is a playmaker and he is good enough, but Juventus have nothing. It’s one thing today, and one thing two weeks from now. And it’s never bending based on the talent, but based on Allegri and his plans. That’s not “old school”. Sorry, “old school” is not defensive and modern is not suddenly attack-minded. Allegri is just not good. He continues to have the best squad top to bottom, amongst the best there is. Time to move on. Sack him and sack anyone who thought that bringing him back was an idea.
Blessing in disguise. Juve would get a whopping had they face bayern munich or man city at free flowing best… better get knocked out now , then being handed 5, 8-nil bashing by powerhouses
@Zambrotta outplayed? losing 0-3 at your own turf is not an indication of outplaying your opponent. What kind of mentality is this? Juve better go back to Serie B, where the level of competition is similar with Serie A back in allegri’s first years. And plus, no Europe in Serie B! You won’t get humiliated like this anymore lol
Funny, in every picture taken on Allegri you can see him screaming “calma!” That word summarize this man´s wet dream of a sport where attacking players and goals doesn´t exist, that´s also why the club is shipping away all attacking mentality and creativity. This outdated football philosophy where all that matters is defense is so terrible boring to watch and it get´s even worse when it fails, This man is unable to even think of attacking football and it get´s into the heads of every player. Once again the season ends in march, after this sad performance who really cares about coppa italia. Allegri should watch and learn from the brilliance when Archimedes get´s an idea in Monty Python!
@ Abdel: Yes outplayed. Don’t commend if you didn’t see the game like many posters here. Villareal didn’t get a shot on target the whole game before that penalty. It was also one of their few counterattacks of the second half.
I had a sliver of hope Juventus would pull through, but the utter collapse in the last 15 minutes was hard to stomach. I’m not a huge fan of Szczesny, but this loss can’t be put on him. Poor attacking, poor defending, and overall dumb plays…What a fiasco!
Frankie good to see you now try and tell me I was wrong about Da Vinci Code Max aka PhD slow ball.
@Zambrotta. You outplayed them yet losing by 3 goals to nil at your own turf? Is that achievement? They breach your defense only with counterattacks? Well that’s called *tactic*, that’s what you lacking. You see, this mentality when you are humiliated yet still feel like you’ve achieved something important (just like your meaningless UCL finals) is what set you apart from other serious clubs. Dog will be dogs, never turn to lions.
Those that are haters of Allegri should lobby Agnelli for another manager to take over in May. Let the Allegri get Juventus into 4th place and then try and get someone like Gasperini from Atalanta or be brave and get Erik Ten Hag if he has not already join Man United by then. There won’t be many who want to come to this Juventus and those that do are doomed to fail with a supporters base and ownership who suffer delusions of grandeur.
@ABDEL. So toxic. Such hatred. My god!!!
Enjoy your moment though.
Allegri and the management need to be reshuffle … That is the most important thing to do if Juventus want to have a bigger achievement