Juventus v Frosinone
Serie A Week 5 – Wednesday, 23rd September – 19:45 GMT – Juventus Stadium
Juventus
Juventus have finally returned to winning ways in Serie A too and can start climbing the table: the match against the newly promoted and struggling Frosinone arrives with ideal timing, few days before the key away game against Napoli.
The win against Genoa certainly did not come after the prettiest performance, but Juventus desperately needed three points, the Manchester City game drained a lot of energy and winning ugly is a skill too. It will not be the last time it happens during the season. Most importantly, Juventus finally kept a clean sheet for the first time since the Supercoppa, and that helps a great deal, they did not suffer much despite Genoa’s early proactivity and quickly iced the game when things went their way after Armando Izzo was shown a red card.
Massimiliano Allegri will continue to manage the roster as this cycle of seven games in three weeks reaches its midpoint. On Sunday, the coach rested Leonardo Bonucci and Hernanes, in this one it has already been announced that Gianluigi Buffon will given a day off, so Norberto Neto will make his official debut.
I would not be surprised if also Giorgio Chiellini and Juan Cuadrado were spared ahead of the San Paolo match. This would give Andrea Barzagli another chance to play as Allegri was coy about the possibility of fielding Daniele Rugani, that we will probably see only in the first Coppa Italia match, even though on paper this look like an ideal opportunity to use him. Martin Caceres will not return to the starting XI as he is not in perfect conditions yet, while it is almost certain that Alex Sandro will replace Patrice Evra on the left flank.
As it has often happened in this season, most of the bad news come from the infirmary. Mario Mandzukic has suffered a thigh strain and will miss twenty days, while Alvaro Morata was subbed off early and is dealing with a mysterious abdomen injury that hopefully will be sorted soon.
These facts leave the coach with little chances but to go with 4-3-1-2. Hernanes should play in front of the defense, with Paul Pogba on his left and one between Stefano Sturaro and Mario Lemina on his right. The Frenchman has played a nice little game against Genoa and surely represents a viable option as pivot, maybe in the future too. We have already seen in the past that Allegri sometimes prefers to have a more defensive player there and Lemina is more on the Nigel De Jong side than on the Andrea Pirlo side. When Claudio Marchisio and Sami Khedira will return, likely after the next international break, I doubt we will see much of Hernanes in that position, but we will probably still see some Lemina, who, anyway, can play as box-to-box midfielder too.
With Morata and Mandzukic ailing and Cuadrado probably rested, the attacking trio should be composed by Roberto Pereyra, Paulo Dybala and Simone Zaza and that should be more than enough to overcome Frosinone. The funny thing about the predicted lineup is that you can shake up the midfield, going with Lemina as DLP, Pereyra right CM and Hernanes AMF and you would still have a pretty good result.
Probable lineup:
4-3-1-2: Neto; Lichtsteiner, Barzagli, Bonucci, Alex Sandro; Lemina, Hernanes, Pogba; Pereyra; Dybala, Zaza.
Injuries:
Khedira (thigh), Asamoah (knee), Marchisio (thigh), Caceres (thigh), Mandzukic (thigh), Morata (abdomen).
Suspended:
None.
Frosinone
After grabbing the second place in Serie B late in the season, Frosinone have had an awful time adapting to the highest league so far. The enthusiasm for the first promotion in their history has faded away after a single half, when the much more experienced Torino have easily completed the comeback after an early score by Danilo Soddimo. That remains the only goal that Frosinone have tallied so far in four match and they have lost them all, against Atalanta, Roma and Bologna, and the last one was really worrying.
The rookie coach and Torino legend Roberto Stellone normally uses a very standard 4-4-2 that takes advantage of a strong flank game thanks to speedy wingers and fullbacks. However, that has stalled after the first game, even though he has tried several different options: Soddimo, Luca Paganini, Daniele Verde and Aleksandar Tonev. However, the area where they have disappointed the most is certainly the attack as Daniel Ciofani and Federico Dionisi, two absolute tanks in Serie B, have not been effective. Samuele Longo has offered little help, but that is not a surprising, and the highly touted Nico Castillo, once labelled the Chilean Zlatana Ibrahimovic, has yet to make his day view.
Stellone in the pre-game presser hinted that he may mix things up a little bit and ditch 4-4-2. They will miss Robert Gucher in the midfield, who is really their engine, so they could strengthen that zone using a three-man line, composed by Mirk Gori, Raman Chibsah and one between the veterans Paolo Sammarco and Alessandro Frara. But he will probably just use one of the wingers, Tonev or Verde, as second striker to add some oomph to the attack.
Usually their only doubt in the back-four is at LB, with Roberto Crivello and Daniel Pavlovic battling for the job, but, as they are evaluating everybody after the horrible start, Modibo Diakité and Leonardo Blanchard are not sure-fire starters either. Moreover, it would not be a surprise to see one of the fullbacks in a more advanced position to give the lineup a distinct defensive outline. As for the flanks, the competition is wide open, with Paganini and Soddimo as the frontrunners. Tonev should play upfront relegating Dionisi to the bench. Longo is out with an ankle injury, Ciofani should be the starter but Castillo has a chance too.
They have looked vulnerable so far, but they are not pushovers. They paid for their inexperience against Torino and were a bit unlucky against Bologna, where they create some good chances, and they have put up a decent fight against Roma, which closed the game only in the final minutes. It is certainly a weak opponent, but none in Serie A should be underestimated.
Probable lineup:
4-4-2: Leali; Rosi, Diakité, Blanchard, Pavlovic; Paganini, Gori, Chibsah, Soddimo; Tonev, Ciofani.
Injuries:
Longo (ankle), Gucher (ankle).
Suspended:
None.
Formation
Stats and Facts
Infographics from www.sporticos.com
Should be an easy win and a game to give benchplayers some minutes.
I want Rugani to play this one
I’d like to see something like this tonight
Neto
Lichtsteiner Barzagli Rugani Sandro
Sturaro Hernanes Lemina
Pereyra
Dybala Zaza
That’s resting a lot of key players for the Napoli showdown and still a strong line-up
I agree with you, except with Hernanes. I don’t think that role fits him. He is not good enough in defense and throw away too many balls. Against Man. City i was so nervous seeing him in that role. He lost the ball more than once and gave them some dangerous chances.
I would also rather swap Hernanes and Pereyra, but it looks like Allegri prefers Hernanes in a deep position
Rumoured that Dybala is dropped to the bench for this game, Cuadrado will play and thus formation will be a 4-3-3
I don’t get why Dybala isn’t being played
I dont get that either. Even if its a 4-3-3 instead of a 4-3-1-2, Dybala can still play as on of the 3 attackers. He should do fine in either one of the lineups.
And he is by far the most creative attacker we have, why is he hardly used? Makes no sense whatsoever. Our most expensive player isnt getting games
4-3-2-1 that seems interesting..
Other than Dybala not playing, which i agree on is the wrong decission, i really like the line up for this match. Neto in goal, Sandro in LB, Zaza as striker.
Another thing i disagree on is us playing in our away jersey at home. Maybe it’s just me not understanding that.
its not just you
And interesting fact, Leali is in Frosinone goal.
Its not pretty to watch this
are we playing 3-5-2 now?
Oh man i miss 5 minutes of this match and we score……….
Great 5 minutes. 2 big chances and a goal
I guess i shouldn’t be watching then haha. I see Zaza scored, was it a good goal?
not really. Leali would have had it but it deflected a defender
Ok. Well there was another attempt from Zaza just now, he’s looking active in the 2nd half.
Nothing leali could do about that except turn to his defender and say wtf?
Anyone know why Berardi is not playing lately?
he’s injured for a while.
anyone good stream? Mine keeps blocking
i don know if this works outside denmark
https://www.bold.dk/streaming/serie_a/
Thanks, just found a good one with english comments though!https://livetv.eu/live_soccer_juventus-vs-frosinone-calcio-1.html
the one i send you is also english comments
It doesn’t work in Holland. Shouldn’t work in Belgium either i suppose. I like how it says ”gratis” though xD
doesn’t work for me 🙁
Frosinone is defending a loss…
our attackers take WAY too long to actually shoot imo
We have been horrible all match. I’ve started to realise this match that Morata is our best attacker. He thinks of things to break through defenses. He’s there when he’s supposed to be there.
What kind of formation is Juve playing now with dybala on?
3-5-2 i think
That needs to go in Chiellini 🙁
Lmao you hear a sound in the stadium, whole crowd cheers, Sampdoria just scored 2-1 against Roma.
I FUCKING knew it. Why do we let them come now? This was bound to happen FFS.
Fuck this shit
What a nightmare, not even beating the by far weakest team of the league at home
What a fucking disgrace, waste of my fucking time.
Fuck this, how can you only score one goal against a team like frosinone. Then shit like this happens, fuckin ridiculous
We are playing like shit again today!! Just pick your fucking tactic Allegri, stop switching all the time!!
Maybe maxi is just a one hit season wonder.
Maybe Klopp??
That has been obvious for a while. It’s a fact about Allegri.
But who should come?
Ancelotti when he’s done with his year off. I want Juve to be coached by an Italian.
Ancesucker hates juve
Its really hard to be juvefan right now.
On saturday we wont win against napoli. But of course against Sevilla
playing like this we will loose both games
I’d like to win against Sevilla though.
It will be a completely new juve in cl. Just like always.
Can no one shoot on goal in this team. Damn the way they played in the final third was horrible, just standing there, waiting until frosinone organised their defence again. They just fuckin stand there on the edge of the box, completely clueless of what to do next.
they have way too many parts .. they have no clue what to do with them.
And I’m getting sick and tired of everyone not only on this site, but everywhere, always talking about formations, and they should use this one, or that one and that one .. every week it’s a million different suggestions on what shape they should play .. Allegri and his team are confusing themselves for fuck sakes.
Fuck Juve.
This season will be like a test. Still just 5 points.
Its a total nightmare.
I just don’t get it. The way they played against City was great, they played as a great team. Just like last season. And then this … How on earth is this possible. Juve should’ve finished this game at least 3-0
Its so fucking frustrating.
Allegri should make up his mind and choose a formation. Always the switching, we played 3 different formations this game. Goddamn, Juve should just stick with the 4-3-1-2. Hernanes doesn’t even have to be the only one playing as tq. Vidal played behind the strikers most of the time last year. And look where it got them. What about pereyra behind the strikers, or pogba.. And hernanes or marchisio as regista.
This moment right know is the final lowpoint. I thought today three points. On saturday maybe 1.but now it feels not right
not liking Allegri right now … Dybala on the fucking bench again to start the game?
WTF is that?
I have no idea why people are bashing allegri for this game. It was clearly the players’ faults for the result
Why did sturaro start? Pereyra could’ve played where sturaro did, with dybala on the wing…. Allegri following in his Milan footsteps. Win with someone else’s team, then destroy that team and ruin some good players and be decently mediocre….