Another playmaker for Sarri

While waiting to find out how long the injury suffered in Lecce, it will deprive Miralem of Juve Pjanic (it is a whisper of a lukewarm optimism), it is necessary to understand how Juve will be able to make up for the simultaneous absence of his two point guards, namely the Bosnian, obviously, and Aaron Ramsey, who will have to face a period (we don't know which entity) of absolute rest, to preserve himself from a possible hernia / pubalgia. To this, we add the lack of another fundamental element for the creation of the game for Sarri, or Douglas It costs, which could return with Genoa, although there are still no certainties.

It is clear that we are not talking about serious injuries, but considering the tight time frame in which the next 4 games will be played (Genoa at home, Derby at the stadium "Grande Torino", Lokomotiv Moscow in the Russian capital and Milan at home), the contingencies could lead Juve to wait for the return of its point guard beyond the stop, and consequently, Sarri to find alternative solutions as soon as possible.

Considering a possible return of Douglas Costa, the solution could be to return to 4-3-3 and therefore to return to aiming strong at the Brazilian, who in the first games had shown how he did not act at the whole range, but also centrally, practically acting on the whole offensive front, with his excellent skills Key Passer (In two games, Douglas provided 3 winning assists, two of which were centrally located, although the former was nullified for matters of millimeters in Parma). Alternatively, you could advance Cuadrado which, as we have seen against Lokomotiv, is a player whose team trusts in the construction of the game, thus confirming Danilo as a right-back. But the key thing would be to find an effective way to fill the area, which is what Ronaldo, Dybala is Higuain tend not to do with continuity lately.

Should the form with the diamond be confirmed, at this point the solutions would be multiple; aim again Bernardeschi, that without Pjanic, he would have more responsibility for the construction of the game. The number 33 is not experiencing a great moment, but in its best moments, it has shown important qualities of verticality. Now his game is much more physical, like that of Rodrigo Bentancur, another solution that Sarri could use in the rhombus, deploying it both high and low.

The role of deputy Pjanic is the one designated by Maurizio Sarri for the number 30, but obviously Bentancur does not possess the geometry qualities of the Bosnian number 5. Sarri has tried, in the last races, to shape it as a trequartista; in Milan at the race in progress, to screen Brozovic, with an adjunct winning assist for Higuain, and against Lokomotiv.

Against the Russians, however, we have seen the limits of the playmaker Bentancur, as underlined by Jacopo Azzolini in the recent tactical video on Juventibus Live: against extremely closed teams, which clog up the spaces in the area and on the trocar, the Uruguayan has shown that he does not possess the necessary quality to disrupt the opposing defensive monolith (not by chance, the only one who succeeded was Pjanic). Thinking about the upcoming engagements, his use as an attacking midfielder could be more logical in Moscow, for example, where the Russians will open up much more than in Allianz, while it might be discouraged in the derby, where Mazzarri will probably perform a scorbutic and defensive kick, like last December.

Another idea could be Paulo Dybala, who acted as a trequartista in the away game of Brescia, but paired with Aaron Ramsey, behind Higuain. There is no doubt about the Argentine's tendency to go back to looking for the ball in the trocar, perhaps to make the best of it, it would need a neighbor with which to talk (and, indeed, on the evening of Rigamonti, along with the Welsh, offered one of the best performances after a long time).

Finally, there is the card rabiot, which Sarri is trying to insert into his chessboard; the number 25 is a well-known wildcard, and could act both as a central defender and as a playmaker, with skills and abilities we talked about even a few months ago.

In short, the simultaneous absence of our point guard will force Sarri to search for alternative solutions, something that could still stimulate the Tuscan technician, particularly accustomed to studying and trying to create schemes, as a good field coach he is.

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