Juventus transfer market, because he chose Morata as his new forward

09/22/2020 Italy



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Arriving at Turin airport at night, Álvaro Morata has bright red eyes. Now wearing the Juventus mask, he returns to the team where he played for two years, unforgettable for him and for the fans, perhaps also because of how they stopped. The forward, in fact, did not want to leave Juventus when Real Madrid rescued him by relying on the contract clause after the two-year loan, while Morata reminds fans of the path to the 2015 Champions League final.

For Juve it was a surprising transfer market operation, since it seemed that they had to choose their forward between Edin Dzeko and Luís Suárez. The difficulties of the two negotiations led the Bianconeri to find another solution. Thus, in the space of one day, it was Atlético de Madrid’s attempt to please Simeone by taking Suárez to change the cards on the table, because Atleti had to quickly release one of their forwards. Morata, apparently, was not very happy with his situation in Madrid and, in turn, Juventus no longer wanted to wait for the evolution of things between Rome and Naples for Milik. In the end, Atlético’s attempt for Suárez ran aground before Barcelona’s negative response to let a direct rival go free, but meanwhile Morata was already in Turin.

Taking into account the 10 million of the transfer that Juventus will pay to Atlético de Madrid, Álvaro Morata in his career moved 205 million with his transfers, a record for a Spanish player. Big money, especially when viewed through the lens of the number of goals per season, just twice in his career over 15 seasons. In this sense Morata did not respect the expectations that had been created by his evident talent, which had led him to be considered the best striker in the quarries of a Madrid since Fernando Torres. Since leaving Real Madrid for the first time, Morata has never spent more than two seasons with the same team, which tells us above all about his inability to establish himself as the protagonist of a great team project. The numerous transfers, however, also testify to the trust that is still placed in his talent, in the idealized image of Morata, in the hope that for once that image will eventually coincide with reality.

In his career Morata gave the best of himself in the two years between the last season in Turin and the return to Madrid. For the coaches it was what in Spain they call “revulsive”, that is, a player to be brought into the game in the race to revive it by exploiting his characteristics and the fatigue of the opponents. When he had to shoulder the brunt of an attack as the first starting forward, he never convinced the coaches that they had him available.

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Last year Morata was supposed to take the lead in an ambitious Atlético de Madrid but ended up losing the ballot to Diego Costa in the post-quarantine period. Now we are talking about a player who at 27 is entering the theoretical peak of his career as a striker and does so with clear strengths and weaknesses, without giving the impression of having more room for improvement. First of all, he is a player who loves to play in large spaces because he prefers a vertical kick, which tries to give depth to the maneuver, whether it is receiving in the race or starting in driving. He has good first control, and the ball between his feet does not burn if he moves while driving, but in the game with his back to the goal he practically only makes first sides and triangulations if he cannot stop and turn around for driving. His typical action is to bench and then shoot and receive the filter in the area behind the defensive line. In essence, the action of the most important goal scored with the Atlético shirt, that of the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 with which he helped eliminate Liverpool.

The fact that his most iconic goal with the Atlético shirt reached the Champions League is almost normal, since it got us used to it, but that it came from a one-on-one situation is particular, because this is also the most delicate aspect in its relation to the goal. In addition to the numbers, no matter how good they are compared to the minutes played, it is clear that Morata is a hesitant finisher, in the sense that technically he would have it all (practically ambidextrous, kicks both to place it and power, reactive in tight spaces etc. .) but has the great defect of the elections with the ball. An aspect that makes him unreliable as an action finisher in one-on-one situations, which due to his aggressive playing style are usually the most present.

Morata often misses the one-on-one kind of conclusion in an almost ridiculous way, at least for the technical qualities he possesses. His performances seem to respond to invisible logics, sometimes he seems almost touched by fate, and perhaps that is why he ends up being able to score memorable goals in very complicated contexts and go completely unnoticed in lesser contexts. Morata seems made for night games, a historical tradition that reminds other great players difficult to even rationalize.

Atlético’s own game helped Morata to give him as much front field as he wanted, but it also created problems for him, giving him little chance of drawing clear conclusions, making him touch some balls from the area. The 5.43 touches in the area during the 90 minutes of last season are not a number that helps a humoral player like him, who always runs the risk of suffering a bad opportunity during the rest of the game from a mental point of view . Precisely this aspect of Morata’s game is fundamental to explain his particular relationship with the completion.

The Spaniard is an excellent header, due to his technique and timing in the jump, he must be considered among the best in Europe fundamentally. Of course, even outside the area he is very effective, he wins 50.5% of his aerial duels, which for a striker is a specialist percentage. His favorite action is precisely to detach himself from the edge of the small area in a center from behind after having run from outside the area, possibly with a tight cross with a parabola to get out to hit the far post. If he has space in the area to attack while he sees his partner ready to cross, he does not care if he comes from the right or from the left, he will shoot and in any case he will come to dispute the ball, and if it is not marked he hits him and then it’s up to the goalkeeper to save him. Three of his twelve goals in LaLiga have been headed from a center from behind. This was supposed to be the cornerstone of his success at Atlético this season, in which he could count on Trippier as a right-back and Lodi as a left-back, two cross specialists to return to the area.

However, things did not go as they should for several reasons, firstly Atlético’s effort to settle in the rival half and then to be able to bring the sides closer to the center for Morata. And then Simeone’s loss of confidence in the ability to take Morata’s team ahead of Diego Costa’s. The real peculiarity of his return to Juve is that the types of movements in the area to reach the conclusion (which he seeks near the small area) are similar to those preferred by Cristiano Ronaldo, and it is no coincidence that his technique in El header is as effective as that of the Portuguese, since he has grown and has been his partner.

Morata is reunited with Cristiano Ronaldo, with whom he shared seasons at Real Madrid. There is always the question of the incompatibility of his style of play with his sacrifice to make the Portuguese shine. Not being Benzema, it is not natural for him all that series of movements in the finishing zone to free the area for his teammate. Morata moves a lot but vertically, to create space for himself and lengthen the opponent’s defense, in a way and with much less sophisticated and altruistic readings than Benzema.

He finds him in a Juventus very different from the one he left, not only because Pirlo is now his coach as his teammate, but because in recent years the team has changed its driving and style of play several times until it is very different from the first Allegri’s version. However, Morata is a very different player from Dzeko, suggesting once again how Juventus’ transfer strategy seems more tied to opportunities than programming. Trying to take the last Morata seen in what we saw in the few minutes of Juventus and in the few words of Pirlo, he seems a player who due to technical characteristics can give depth to the maneuver by alternating in the central band with Cristiano, and who should be able to be less inaccurate and vertical in the readings so as not to run the risk of losing too many balls by partnering with the Portuguese. Their controls and their benches are then dictated by the continuous desire to reach the area in the next touch, which coincides with the vision of Cristiano Ronaldo, but does not marry instead with the current idea of ​​Juventus football, which wants to organize . in the positional attack phase instead of pressing the accelerator once the ball is recovered in his own half.

There is a risk that Morata will touch Cristiano’s competition areas instead of assisting him. Also because his continuous search for depth with and without the ball does not foresee his presence in the area, but rather his arrival. He is not a striker who likes to create spaces with his movements like Luís Suárez, he prefers to reach the race. But it is also not certain that Juventus need a player who is totally involved in improving Cristiano’s life. It can also be useful to serve a minimum of 7, especially in the league. Perhaps in Juve’s plans, Morata can be both the attacker and with his ability near the small area he unlocks the games against the teams that close, as well as a “revulsive” in the Champions League games, hoping that his particular mystical functions to unlock intricate situations. Now he seems specialized in this and this is perhaps the aspect that Bianconeri fans remember the most about him.



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