Watching Juventus getting knocked out from the Champions League was a difficult thing both to watch and hear. Juventus ought not have basically gotten to this in any case. I wrote this not on the grounds that such displays don't sometimes happen in the world 🗺 of football, but they tend to be quite rare and we are talking of an easy opponent Juventus could ever get like Lyon.
Be it as it may, the Old Ladies didn't perform to expectations after narrowly winning their 9th Serie A. They have the players at their disposal to conquer Europe but they failed in my opinion, woefully, failing to get past or reach the quarter final of Uefa Champions League for two ✌️ consecutive seasons.
Below are reasons why I think Sarri and his boys failed in this season Champions League.
Juventus neglected to find out about the Dynamics at Real Madrid that made Cristiano Ronaldo win the Champions League in 3 succession with them. Also, the key issue was not even Zidane's strategies or Ronaldo's brightness that made them to sparkle. Real Madrid apparently had exceptionally good playmakers like Toni Kroos, Luka Modric, Casemiro and Benzema which Juventus doesn't have. Rather than Juventus putting resources into quality playmakers that would draw out the best in Ronaldo, they rather began recruiting players like Ramsey and Rabiot on free transfers. To be honest you can't hope to win a competition as huge as Champions League or even make it to the quarterfinals if you don't have have the right players.
Juventus weren't also not perfectly clear about what they needed from Sarri. At the point when they brought him, it was in all probability since he had amazed them with his lovely Sarri-ball at Napoli. Sarri wasn't in my opinion appointed to win the Champions League. That was rather what Ronaldo was brought for. But balancing the Sarri Ball while making good use of Ronaldo was always going to be a difficult task. But Sarri's hands were tied owing to the fact that Juventus management were in full support of Ronaldo's utilisation. Because of this friction between Sarri's objectives and the clubs' targets, clearly Juventus would just not have a possibility of winning this season Champions League.
Most of Juventus’ players are very average. It's what I would like to call decent players. When we go through a list of players they have in their squad we find players like Sandro, Bernadeschi, Khedira, Rabiot and De Sciglio. And having decent players mostly translates to decent results nowadays.
Ronaldo himself is a marked player. All teams that play against Ronaldo's team know that when they cut off the supply of the ball to Ronaldo, they have more than 70% chance of winning. And that is what Lyon perfected in and emerged victorious in that tie.
All in all it appears that Juventus' perform in the champions league was a very shambolic display of their real capabilities. It stills baffles a lot of fans how Lyon did it. But nevertheless, it serves to show that no club should ever make the mistake of trying to put all their eggs in one basket. Even for a player like Ronaldo he would occasionally need help more than ever considering that he has already clocked 35 years.
What Juventus ought to do is to do an overhaul of the whole squad save for Ronaldo, Bentacur, De Ligt and Dybala and look for creative midfielders who could be a good shoulder to lean on for Ronaldo.
They could start this midfield project by approaching a player like David Silva and wooing him to the club, now that he decided to hang up his boots as a City player. They should then go on to look for young and promising center forwards like Quincy Promes who could bring a youthful feel to the squad.
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