Tudor’s team stops Rome at the Olimpico and shows intense, vertical and functional football. The opposite of what for months has limited its performance in Italy and Europe
And, therefore, another Juventus was possible. Quick, vertical, aggressive and intense, at times enveloping, lined up with the right rights and the claims on the other side, with a designated captain and the defensive and contemporary defensive phase to the offensive one. Not yet perfect, too little time to work on it, but a strong team, trained with logic and fully connected with its technician not because the one before played against -is right Thiago Motta to refuse the reconstruction -, but simply because this fully includes the technician’s deliveries and the other struggled to understand always different deliveries.
Another Juventus was possible and that of Igor Tudor, drawing against Roma, took an important step towards qualifying for the next Champions League: the essential goal in the name of which the Croatian was called to the Capezza della Old Lady. Net and deserved victory, that of the bianconeri. If Tudor’s first Juve had been an answer by Nervi to the Thiago Motta of Junto, that of the Olimpico resembles light at the bottom of the tunnel. Controprove will be needed, but the road taken seems to be the right one and indicates some things: the first is that after nine months of tactical onanism, an injection of normality was enough to put the only thing that matters and that is the obsessive research of the result at the center of the village; The second is that normalization passes through the simplification of the choices, including the dogma that the players make better in the positions in which they are more comfortable.
For a time Tudor’s Juventus was dominant against a Rome that came from seven wins in a row. Then the Giallorossi put in place greater quality and desire to rebel against defeat, some smudging re -proposed and a wrong defensive reading led to the tie of Shomurodov. Recessed which, however, the bianconeri have returned to grind their direct and vertical football and also the changes supported Tudor’s match plan.
The point taken at the Olimpico is important, it is not yet worth the attachment to the Champions League area but lays the foundations for hunting at 70, height where the pass for Europe that counts is almost certainly positioned. Tudor served 18 points in the 9 games granted to him: it is 4 after the first 180 minutes. Seen from Rome, the future is a little less afraid and it is symbolic that everything happened a few hours by the Moon interview with Thiago Motta with his truths. On the one hand Juventus that was there, confused and unable to read reality, on the other what was (and is) possible: pragmatic, cohesive and projected towards the result. The only thing that matters.
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