Football is a lot of fun because in addition to being a good game it is also a fair of nonsense. You can say as many as you want, counting on the fact that, three days later, a thousand more will be said that will bury the previous ones under a thunderous laugh. An example? «We need more serenity. These defeats will serve to grow, ”said Max Allegri, commenting on the home thud with Empoli.
Now: no one asks Allegri to cross himself after two bad games with the handicap of Ronaldo’s farewell. Obviously there can be several hitches. And a hitch can also be the surprising Empoli who invented the perfect match in Turin. There is everything, for heaven’s sake … But taking the public for a ride, as Count Max does, is a bit too much. A couple of more defeats like this and you will see what growth: unhappy growth. Allegri rightly, earning 8 million a year, doesn’t give a damn about criticism. However, the Juventus fans who had to put up with Pirlo’s grumbles last year will not be very happy with another start so sobbing after having already suffered the loss of Ronaldo.
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Ronaldo will not be nice, he will not know Italian, he will only think about his company and his muscles as a vain gym, but he has one quality: he scores 30 goals a year, more or less one per million he earns (31) . Thirty goals is a huge amount, ask any young footballer who wants to become a good striker.
The problem is that Allegri’s team is not only missing the soloist: the whole choir is also missing. There is no play, balance, compactness, blood, competitive anger. The defense embarks on goals, the midfield lacks someone who knows how to dictate the times. The attack shines only thanks to the blitzes of Chiesa and the intermittent inventions of Dybala. If we then add that Juventus has a deficit of 200 million, there is little to “grow”.
They say that Allegri is a manager and not a creator. Well, this is a good opportunity for the pragmatist Max to disprove his critics. His latest choices, like the one against Empoli to start without a center forward, leave us very perplexed. Meanwhile, after two rounds, Juve travels with 5 points less than Inter and Lazio, who score in an avalanche. Of the Milan that overwhelmed Cagliari (4-1), of the Roma that walked on the Salernitana (4-0) and of the Napoli that with some more effort, and the help of the bewildered referee Di Bello, got rid of Genoa (2-1). In short, except for Max, all the others are very, very “happy”.