In search of the en-plein. Champions League Tuesday without particular pitfalls for Juventus and Roma, for this very reason you are called to score full points, with goals and points. The Swiss of Young Boys (at 18.55) and the Czechs of Viktoria Plzen (21), in fact, cannot represent obstacles but rather must become stepping stones towards qualification for the round of XNUMX.
Be careful, however, to take everything for granted: Europe teaches that no opponent can ever be taken lightly, otherwise you risk real embarrassment. Both Juve and Roma are doing well in today's commitments, at least as far as results on the pitch are concerned. Because outside, however, everything happened and the question, strangely, concerns more the black and whites than the yellow and reds. If the latter in fact cheered up by winning the derby, the former agitated a post match with Napoli which should have been festive with the Marotta affair, inevitably destined to leave aftermath.
“The model remains unchanged, only the people will change – Agnelli glossed over – Marotta and Mazzia (CEO since 2011, ed) have also done a great job in raising new managers, 45-year-old people ready and prepared to take on responsibilities. The pillars of the new Juve will be Paratici for the sports area, Ricci for revenues and Re for the financial area. We will give absolute continuity with the recent past”.
Words that declassify Marotta as a marginal and replaceable element, but only the field will tell if things will really go like this. All this, at least publicly, is of little interest to Allegri, who is forced to isolate himself from the corporate chaos and concentrate instead on the match against the Swiss, which is anything but prohibitive, all right, but still one to play and win.
“We must have respect for the Young Boys, they come from many victories – the coach thought – If we take them lightly we risk having problems, they are very physical and good on long balls. It's a game to win, otherwise we'll nullify what we did in Valencia, I want to find myself at 6 points in the standings".
Allegri, forced to give up the suspended Ronaldo ("in any case he needed to catch his breath") and the unavailable Douglas Costa and De Sciglio, seems oriented to line up a 3-5-2 with Szczesny in goal, Barzagli, Bonucci and Benatia in defense , Cuadrado, Bernardeschi, Pjanic, Matuidi and Alex Sandro in midfield, Dybala and Mandzukic in attack.
Seoane will respond with a 4-2-3-1 with Von Ballmos in goal, Schick, Von Bergen, Camara and Benito in the back, Sanogo and Bertone in the midfield, Fassnacht, Aebischer and Sulejmani behind the lone striker Hoarau.
“There has been a lot of talk about the derby but little about Plzen, a tough team, with great physicality, who leads and scores goals”. Di Francesco's words at the press conference smack of a warning towards a square, as usual, too prone to mood swings. And since the 3-1 over Lazio has dangerously raised the bar of euphoria, here is the warning to the sailors from the Giallorossi coach, called to win both to put the group back in order (which started, it should be remembered, with the 0-3 of Madrid) than to avoid a new crisis.
Having said that, Viktoria Plzen does not seem to scare, which is why, net of Di Francesco's (right) concerns, it is reasonable to expect a winning Rome, along the lines of what was seen in the last Champions League. The Olimpico will see a 4-3-3 with Olsen in goal, Florenzi, Manolas, Fazio and Kolarov in defence, Cristante, Nzonzi and Pellegrini in midfield, Under, Dzeko and El Shaarawy in attack.
Vrba will try the coup with a 4-2-3-1 that will see Kozacik between the posts, Reznik, Hubnik, Hejda and Limbersky in the back department, Hrosovsky and Prochazka in the midfield, Kopic, Horava and Kovarik supporting the center forward Krmencik.
