After years of accusations and merciless judgements, Max Allegri takes back the stage: the derby won with pragmatism reignites the debate on his simple but effective football
Eventually, Father Time also returned to duty. Max Allegri took the last one revenge on the army of those who for years have described him as old, boiled down, bourgeois and, above all, not adapted to the new fashions of football. Onanists, lovers of the beautiful game and the trend of the moment, miles away from corporate pragmatism of a coach used to doing with what he has and doing well, in the sense of always guaranteeing the minimum declared objective.
The derby won with the low block, with the 36% of ball possession And granting to the opponent 20 shots on target, two posts and a missed penalty it became the perfect match, studied carefully, prepared in detail. And then compliments and honors, pretending to forget that the Allegri of today is not that far from the Allegri of yesterday, the one that had not evolved. Except now he wins.
Football is simple (cit) and the conversion of former critics is suspicious. Football is simple and that is if you win you’re right and if you lose you’re a… (another quote) and if it then happens that those who came before and after you did worse, even with greater expense, staying off the wagon becomes difficult to the limits of the impossible.
There is a time for everythingIn short. The idea of defining Allegri as a dotard (and those who opposed him as a servant) has evidently run out of steam. It would be nice to know what the person concerned thinks about it, assuming he doesn’t prefer to enjoy the revenge in silence. Also in this different from the others.
