Throughout the last two campaigns, Juventus manager Max Allegri continuously reshuffled his starting formation.
But for the majority of last season, he adopted a 3-5-2 lineup and he appears set on maintaining it for next term.
La Gazzetta dello Sport journalist Fabiana Della Valle was present at the club’s morning training session in California and was able to draw some conclusions based on her observation.
She believes that Allegri will likely start the season with a 3-5-2 formation. The three-man backline will be the cornerstone of the lineup. Danilo and Gleison Bremer should be automatic starters with Federico Gatti and Daniele Rugani vying for the third spot.
On the wings, Filip Kostic and new signing Timothy Weah should start as the favorites ahead of Andrea Cambiaso and Samuel Iling-Junior.
In attack, Dusan Vlahovic and Arkadiusz Milik might be the preferred duo (at least for now).
However, the introduction of Federico Chiesa – who did well in training – could switch the tactical formation to 3-4-3. This would allow the winger to play in his natural position.
Finally, Della Valle suggests a switch to a hybrid 4-3-3 formation (or 4-3-2-1) at some point during the campaign.
In the current squad, Fabio Miretti would be one of the options to play between the lines, but Juventus could opt to buy a more natural attacking midfielder, possibly in the shape of Jesper Lindstrom.
Juventus is far behind Milan in the transfer market and with this coach. Old slow or average players and a dinosaur. If they sell Chiesa they are lost completely.
Who would you sell to plug the huge financial hole instead of Chiesa?
I’m all ears.
Della Valle 😀
Joke of a journalist.
If Allegri decides to go with 3-5-2 it will be because of no other choice, i.e. no left footed center back.
If that happens, Alex Sandro will maintain the left CB spot.
Things might change in August if Juve acquire a left footed CB, but will still start the campaign with a 3-5-2 and switch to a 4 man backline with either 4-3-3 or 4-3-1-2 depending on who stays from Chiesa/ Vlahovic.
Bremer and Kostic are reasons for sticking with the 3-5-2. It also suits Allegri`s low block style with minimum amounts of attacking patterns. Allegri also thinkers alot and will likely continue to tweak formations in games, coming up with hybrid ways of changing between formations. It will also matters if Chiesa stays or not as he is a wide forward. In general this is old news from Fabiana.