Serse Cosmi insists that Juventus do not have issues in midfield, but instead believes our attack is hampering us.
The Old Lady have seriously struggled for goals so far this term, with many blaming the service to the forwards for the deficit.
10 other Serie A sides actually have more league goals than our side so far this term, and Cosmi insists that our frontline is proving to be our weakness, not those doing the work in behind.
“It’s not true that Juve’s problem is the midfield,” Cosmi told Sky Italia (via TuttoJuve). “I think that when Arthur played at his best, the Bianconeri always played rationally. For example, if I think of Napoli with Anguissa and Fabian Ruiz, the Campania they have an extraordinary midfield and I believe that Arthur is a player who knows how to give game times due to his characteristics, but it doesn’t seem to me that he is in the Bianconeri’s plans. Juventus must look more at attack to strengthen themselves.”
Arthur no doubt has ability, but I certainly don’t know how to get a consistent level out of him, and none of our recent coaches have found a way either. I’m personally glad that Weston McKennie has earned a role in the team, and believe he gives us something different that can really help us to at both ends of the field.
If Arthur could adapt to play in a wide role and usurp Rabiot from the side, that I could live with, but I personally believe there is both room for improvement in midfield and attack.
Do you believe our bigger issues are in midfield or attack?
Patrick
Juventus need to add more strikers and to let Arthur to play 90 min. We hered Juve. Want to sign players and no show new players.
There is no doubt, we could do with a quality striker.
Mainly because Kean hasn’t shown much -he simply doesn’t score enough goals.
Morata has his ups & downs, which is not a problem playing alongside Higuain/Ronaldo & Dybala but playing with Kean, there is no support in scoring goals.
I believe it’s both. To be honest the whole team is weak. This is the culmination of errors upon errors of our administration. Unlike Cosmi I never managed a club, but I’ve seen football and if I could predict that Rabiot, Ramsey and even Arthur would flop… The problem with this Juve is that it has good to decent individual players but no team at all. The problem in the attack is that the team is still incapable of attacking as a unit. Dybala and Chiesa score but almost never create, Berna does a lot of good work but very rarely results in an effective pass or goal. Kulu is the opposite of Berna clumsy in the ball and mis passes a lot, but despite very little still has a decent end product of a goal or an assist. Morata is better at creating than finishing, though he rarely gets a chance to finish. Kean still hasn’t got a run of games, and when he does okay he looks isolated. Yes there is a problem in the attack as well but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a bigger one in midfield either.