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KH\u00c9PHREN THURAM – 6.<\/strong> Thought he\u2019d opened the scoring in the first half before it was discovered he was rather comically offside. How the assistant missed that I don\u2019t know. Outside of that Thuram had a strong match. He completed 97.7 percent of his passes and was the only starter other than Francisco Concei\u00e7\u00e3o to record more than one dribble. Threw in a key pass as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
ANDREA CAMBIASO – 5.<\/strong> The fact that he led the team in tackles belies the fact that his defense was once again pretty crap. He picked up a needless booking 20 minutes into the game and was very<\/em> lucky that Saelemaekers hit the woodwork. Didn\u2019t produce enough on the offensive end to make up for it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
FRANCISCO CONCEI\u00c7\u00c3O – 6.5.<\/strong> Made some great moves, including the cross on Thuram\u2019s would-be goal. He had more than twice as many dribbles as anyone else on the field, posted a key pass, and hit the target with three out of four shots, although none of them was truly able to test Mike Maignan in goal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
J\u00c9R\u00c9MIE BOGA – 5.5.<\/strong> Highly accurate with his passing but didn\u2019t cause the chaos in the box that he usually does. Everyone\u2019s bound to have an off game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
JONATHAN DAVID – 5.<\/strong> Not what was required up front, David had only one shot\u2014a header that flashed wide\u2014and didn\u2019t exactly set the world on fire with his passing either.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
EMIL HOLM – 6.<\/strong> Registered a pair of dribbles and a key pass, and was far more threatening and<\/em> more defensively solid than the man he replaced (Cambiaso)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
TEUN KOOPMEINERS – 5.5.<\/strong> Forced a save out of Maignan minutes after coming on but didn\u2019t do much else.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
KENAN YILDIZ – NR.<\/strong> Looked a little off. Clearly he still isn\u2019t 100 percent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
EDON ZHEGROVA – NR.<\/strong> Unable to do much as the change of pase for Concei\u00e7\u00e3o at the end.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
DUSAN VLAHOVIC – NR.<\/strong> Was on the field for two minutes plus stoppages and looked more like a threat than David did in 88. Miscalculated the offside trap a couple of times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
I\u2019m not gonna lie, I would have felt really<\/em> good if we\u2019d managed to beat Max Allegri once this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
That probably doesn\u2019t come as a surprise to most of the avid readers of this site, but it remains the truth. The reason it wasn\u2019t to be is the same reasons I\u2019ve been criticizing him for years: the Max of today coaches does not coach to win, but rather not to lose.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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It was up to Luciano Spalletti to push through that, and had this been a 120-minute game as opposed to 90, Juve might<\/em> have been able to get there. Boga not having the best game wasn\u2019t idea, as he\u2019s been the team\u2019s main creative outlet when Kenan Yildiz has been absent. Locatelli was also helpful in that department today, but the forwards\u2014David in particular\u2014couldn\u2019t do what was needed with the service that did come their way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Working in Spalletti\u2019s favor was another of Allegri\u2019s flaws: the insistence on playing people, particularly forwards, out of position. Putting Rafael Le\u00e3o and Christian Pulisic in a front two puts neither of them in a position to succeed, and it was relatively easy for Kalulu, Bremer, and Kelly to neutralize them. The two combined for one shot (off target) and two key passes. That left it up to the likes of Saelemaekers and Adrien Rabiot to be the ones to produce offense, and the rest of the team was able to limit their threat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Spalletti knew that Juve had a margin of error in the race for the top four and didn\u2019t exactly go for the downs tactically in this game\u2014something that annoys me no matter who\u2019s coaching\u2014but ultimately got the better performance out of his team, and had them playing well enough that the worst-case scenario of a loss didn\u2019t come to pass.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s crunch time. Juventus control their destiny for the Champions League with four games left. Those four games: Verona (home), Lecce (away), Fiorentina (home) and Torino (away). All games with their pitfalls\u2014Lecce are fighting to stay away from relegation, Fiorentina always want to take a bite out of Juve, and the Derby della Mole is the Derby della Mole\u2014but all games that Juventus will be reasonably favored to win. Run the table, and achieve your goal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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