And now all that remains is to cling to historical courses and appeals. The Juventus loses against the Sassuolo as had happened only once in history. Exactly six years ago, on 28 October 2015m at the Mapei Stadium one of the most historic knockouts for the Bianconeri in the recent club era took place and not only because, at the time, losing for Juventus was truly a more unique than rare event.
Juventus, from Sassuolo to Sassuolo: crisis compared
Not that year, however, not in that nightmarish start to the season, which seemed to herald the worst after that 2-1. And instead, having reached the lowest point, Max Allegri, who just after a defeat against Sassuolo was sacked by Milan in January 2013, started one comeback sensational and historic behind the fifth championship in a row in the series of nine that would end in 2020.
Yes, but unfortunately for the Juventus fans the comparison between the two moments seems to hold little. Because in the first place the parallel between the two roses doesn’t hold up. And perhaps also moments in Allegri’s career. At the time, the ranking was even worse than today, but it was the ranking that made the difference from that night on personality of some leaders of the locker room: from those who are no longer there today, how Gigi Buffon or Patrice Evra, to those who are still there, but no longer seem able to shock the environment, like Giorgio Chiellini e Leonardo Bonucci.
Juventus crisis: Allegri is worse than Pirlo and is voiced by Sarri
Here then is that for Allegri the bench number 200 with Juventus in Serie A, the third coach to join the illustrious club after Giovanni Trapattoni (402) and Marcello Lippi (258), it has turned into a nightmare and a litany of inevitable confrontations and thrilling figures. Just like in 2015-2016 Juventus have already lost three games of the first 10 of the league: in the era of the three points it had happened only one more time, in 1996. In that 2015 the Scudetto arrived, while 25 years ago in Turin at at the end of the season they posted the Champions League.
Very distant memories, as well as the parallel with the departure of the last “happy” season of the Juventus: in 2018-2019 at this point of the season the bianconeri had 28 points, children of nine victories and one draw. Allegri, however, is doing worse, indeed much worse, even compared to Maurizio Sarri e Andrea Pirlo and these are the most effective comparisons, in particular the one with the Maestro, who had at his disposal a rose in fact identical to the current one, except Cristiano Ronaldo more and a Locatelli and a Kaio Jorge less.
Juventus without play: Allegri’s accusations
After the first ten games played in the league a year ago, Juventus had 20 points and were unbeaten, having combined five wins and five draws. The summit was already seven points away, while today the first place is thirteen. Sarri was already traveling to 26 points, double the current ones, but more than the numbers of the ranking it is effective to mark the confusion at the level of game. The illusory narrow victories against Turin and Rome and the very painful draw against Inter had masked the team’s difficulties in making the match. “This is a counterattack Juve” had ruled Allegri, but the theorem failed on the first occasion in which the team found itself at a disadvantage and could not act as a throw-in after unlocking the result or could not benefit from an episode such as happened at San Siro.
As soon as it was a question of changing the score, not only did no one at Juventus manage to change the pace of the team in terms of play, but above all no one was able to take the team by the hand at a charismatic level. Paulo Dybala, captain of the evening, did not go beyond some individual action, Federico Chiesa he continues to act too far from the goal to be decisive and in midfield, Locatelli also collapsed, the total absence of drivers on a technical and charismatic level emerged.
Juventus crisis: leader wanted and the misunderstanding Kulusevski
The 4-4-2 designed by Allegri does not seem to be the most suitable outfit for the team from a tactical point of view, but in defense of the Livorno coach it must be said that the very structure of the squad makes it difficult to identify a functional module, given the hybrid characteristics of many players, on all that Dejan Kulusevski impalpable both when he plays from the start, as against Inter, and when he takes over to give the theoretical shock, as against Sassuolo. The Swede, bought in January 2020 for 35 million, is then the symbol of the latest, disastrous purchasing campaigns operated by the company.
That investment ran into the one made just a few months later for Chiesa, depriving of millions of profits to finance grafts in other departments, such as the heart of the midfield or the attack.
The company with the president Andrea Agnelli in his head he had hoped that Allegri’s personality would be enough to put the ship back on the right course. The experiment seems to have begun to fail: at the end of October the championship is already a utopia. The coach has the task of making the team understand that entering the Champions area is essential, especially in the future. To lay the foundations for a new cycle.
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