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The Bianconeri ended their tour of Indonesia, Australia and Singapore with a 5-0 win over a Singapora selection over the weekend.
Massimiliano Allegri sees value in Juventus’ tour of Asia and tactical flexibility and comments once more on working again with Andrea Pirlo.
The Bianconeri ended their tour of Indonesia, Australia and Singapore with a 5-0 win over a Singapora selection over the weekend.
Ahead of returning to Italy to see out pre-season, the club’s new Coach has reflected on the positives to take from the four wins recorded.
“The tour has been used to do some good work – we trained hard and well. We grew in a physical aspect,” Allegri has told the Gazzetta dello Sport.
“And then we carried forth the 3-5-2 system whilst also deepening our knowledge of another playing system. I think it is very fortunate to be able to switch between two formations, even in the same game.
“There are moments in the season where you can play with three [defenders] and others when it is better to do so with four.”
Attention is on Allegri’s intentions to use a four-man defence for 2014-15.
“The team showed good signs in the two phases when they played with a four in Jakarta and Sydney, and also for the whole game in Singapore.
“We need to work hard to acquire the knowledge to make it possible to use a different formation with the same reliability.
“Would this other formation be a 4-3-1-2? Often I say 4-3 and then we’ll see. It depends on the characteristics of the players. I have the fortune in only teaching the one system, as the other is already in place.
“But I don’t have a playmaker? I can adapt someone. Pereyra has the features to do so even if he is not a classic finisher. I can not see Pogba in that role, Marchisio rather yes.
“Tevez can play in a 4-3-2-1 with two players moving between the lines, and also in the 4-3-1-2. When you have great players it is much simpler.
“But switching to a 4-3-3 is proving more difficult? Yes, for the characteristics of the players. The only winger is Pepe, then there is Coman, who has great quality but who is very young. He will be useful this year.”
Allegri is reunited at Juve with Andrea Pirlo, having allowed him to leave Milan at the end of the 2010-11 season after a difficult year together. However, for the 47-year-old, a repeat scenario in Turin is unlikely.
“This issue was never there. Football is not an exact science – there are years that begin one way and end up in another.
“In that season Andrea was unlucky – he was a starter, he got injured, it took him a little while to return and we went forward with a different line-up. Then other assessments were made by the club considering the economic aspect.
“At a technical level, Pirlo has more quality than everyone else and at a physical level he is the same as 10 years ago, so…
“When Pirlo does need to rest, who will take his place? Marchisio, he is tactically intelligent.”