Juve-Chelsea, Chiesa the best as center forward: ‘Juve spirit, gossip about Max’

Right, left and from central tip. Only a few days ago Max Allegri had browsed through words the range of papers that Federico Chiesa can offer and from there he drew, in addition to the multifaceted possibilities offered by the “Swiss army knives” Bernardeschi and Cuadrado, to feed the “crazy idea” of an unprecedented structure for Juve on the night of the challenge to the strongest opponent, Chelsea, European champion, with the most challenging coefficient of difficulty, the absence of the two starting forwards Dybala-Morata. An evening with which Juve hopes to turn the season. “It was a painful performance, Chelsea put us there, they were very good at ball possession. But we showed the Juve spirit, what the coach asks of us – he celebrates at Dazn’s microphones a man of the match award for once full of meaning -. We started with a module, then the coach asked us to change to go in depth, attack the spaces and we did it well ”.

THOUSAND ROLES FOR MAX

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Allegri enjoyed like a child to tighten and widen his team department by department like an accordion, changing their face almost from one action to another not with moves for their own sake, but getting closer and closer to the best balance for that specific match moment. The tip of this self-propelled iceberg was just Chiesa, on the left in the starting 4-3-3, in front as an attacker when Allegri moved Cuadrado back to midfield, finally even as a pure center forward with Bernardeschi not on the side but in support a few meters more. back when the coach brought Cuadrado back to the defenders’ line for the 5-3-2 which proved to be the winning formula. “Bern also played a great game, like everyone else – added Chiesa to Sky -. We started with a module, then when the coach put us vertically to attack the depth more we put Chelsea in difficulty and at the first opportunity we punished him. Then in another two or three we didn’t finish, but starting the second half strong and aggressive is what the coach asks of us ”.

GOSSIP AND TUNING

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It is impossible to talk about Allegri ignoring the public messages addressed to a few boys, and among them Chiesa, called by Max to get out of his comfort zone to add his head to his legs, a public goad to which a hungry boy like Federico was able to react in the most constructive way: “I care, lately there has been talk of it but there has never been any problem with the coach, just something created by the newspapers. Indeed, what he asks me to do, there is great harmony. Now we have to recover, we got off to a bad start, but maybe when things go like this we like to put a bit of gossip but it is useless: we want to bring Juve back to the levels of when they won the league titles “. And again: “There is great spirit, Chelsea are a very strong team and they showed it by winning the Champions League. But we played a great game, yes in the defensive phase, but it was the approach that was needed to bring the points home ”.

JUVE CHARACTER

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Absent with Malmoe, Federico Chiesa has scored five goals in his last five Champions League matches, including three in his first two career games in a knockout round with Porto. That was not enough but certainly not his fault, which took a moment to show that he was at the height of the highest stages, even well before the European Championship in a difficult year, and at the height of Juve. But of real Juve, not the stunt double in which he found himself in recent months: “The coach wanted to see a team match. The season did not start at Juve level but we are recovering: now we have three positive results, we are focused on the goal of bringing Juve back to the highest levels. We played a great game and showed a great character from Juve, which is what makes this team different from the others. It is great to play in this competition. Now we enjoy the evening, because we have won. But on Saturday there is the derby which is another very important match ”. Below with the next.