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The defeat against Benevento is one of those that no longer happens. That leave residue and create fractures. In Turin there was a good coach, once, who explained that the important thing for him was to arrive in the best possible conditions in March and April. Juventus opened the crazy month by being expelled from the Champions League by modest Porto and closed it by remedying a scoppola at the Benevento Stadium that had not won for eleven days. Everything he did in the middle counts zero: He made a mistake in the one match that shouldn’t have been wrong and was ruined on a Sunday that should have been taken for granted. The Scudetto was already in the realm of dreams, now not even in the most beautiful. To his friend Inzaghi, Pirlo conceded four puti of the six available in two games: from this point of view it is a blow that can become a significant lesson, for what their respective careers as a coach have been. The fact is that Juve not only greets Inter and the tenth consecutive tricolor, but looks to the future with concern. Between April 7 and 18 he will face Naples and Atalanta: fourth place is anything but obvious. Exiting the Champions League would be a bloodbath and an economic disaster, as well as a sporting failure. Whoever comes out of the knockout stages of the Champions League wins 80 million euros, whoever wins the Europa League does not reach 25: enough is enough. The fact that the Lady has to worry already speaks volumes about the inevitable judgment of a season that cannot turn positive. And don’t take out the Coppa Italia.
Pirlo’s responsibilities are there. You may have accepted an offer that came early, but it’s very hard to blame you for that. He made forgivable mistakes for a rookie manager, but not for the Juventus manager. Even against Benevento he did not make the best use of the (few, it must be said) weapons at his disposal. And then he closed in the worst way: pointing out individual mistakes, which are repeated, is a misstep towards the team first and foremost. And secondly, a contradiction: who should correct them but him? He has 14 points less than Sarri a year ago and 20 compared to the last Allegri: they are cold numbers, but there is no escape from here. The greatest responsibility is perhaps that of having succumbed on more than one occasion to the tactical anarchy of its individual protagonists. To organized chaos. What has paid off from time to time: is the risk of chaos. That said, in the forty games as a coach that he has had the opportunity to train, he has shown interesting things. It revitalized Danilo, one who seemed to have passed through Turin by accident. He came up with an idea and even got his team to play some great games. Something has been seen. His mistakes are forgivable, even physiological, for a coach at first. They cannot be for the Juventus coach, and specifically for a Juve that has been winning the Scudetto for nine years. But it’s certainly not your fault.
Aiming at Pirlo is like looking at your finger pointing at the Moon. The finger is there, but the subject is the Moon. And problems arise upstream, in a decidedly less elegant way, you could say that fish always stinks out of the head. The faults of the Brescia coach stop before those of those who built the Juve that today deviates. And by admission of Paratici himself he cannot go through a transitional season, since in reality in the best of cases it is the one he is experiencing. The golden cycle is there, the golden cycles are (it sounds better to call them that) they are there. They do not touch. But that’s the beauty of a company that always aims for one thing: winning. What counts is the result you get tomorrow, what you won yesterday is history and showcase: pride not to be forgotten, but not even to become a beautiful screen behind which to hide today’s difficulties. Since Allegri’s farewell, Juventus wanted to change everything too quickly. In addition, since Marotta’s farewell: whatever the causes, he is a figure that is missing today. In football, especially at the top, there is no abruptness. At Juve, the feeling is that it happened: that it was taken for granted that Marotta could not be replaced, that Allegri’s victories were obvious. He has opted for a planetary investment (Ronaldo) that should not be discussed in itself but because of the consequences it has brought. Attempts were made to replicate the model (Rabiot, Ramsey) without much luck. Contradictory decisions were made: Sarri’s associative football and Ronaldo’s individualism. Dybala nearly sold out and then was the best player the following season. One is in love with an idea, building a Guardiola or a Zidane at home, without taking into account that Guardiola and Zidane were not born by chance but after programming and (albeit short) some learning. A magic circle has been built in which it is really difficult to understand what is wrong. Excellent things have also been done in all this: De Ligt and Chiesa have arrived, to name two. Not everything is thrown away: this is never the solution. But if Juventus, at the highest level, does not begin to question why today we have to ask ourselves if tomorrow Pirlo will continue to be the coach or not (and the answer is yes, but at the end of the season who knows: Gaich’s goal has shuffled all letters), then you won’t find any answers this season. Ugly and transitional.
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