The Italian press is taking lots of guesses at how Juve will look after the break

We’ve reached the uncomfortable a part of the season that’s again in our lives after issues had been completely bonkers this time final 12 months. It’s the primary week of September. It’s the primary worldwide break of the season. And, due to the truth that it’s the primary week of September, meaning there’s no switch discuss to dominate the sports activities pages throughout Italy.

No extra Cristiano Ronaldo rumors. (Sorry to disappoint.)

No extra Manuel Locatelli conferences to cowl and write about. (Sorry to disappoint once more.)

There’s nonetheless a Paulo Dybala contract extension to speak about, however that’s one thing that has conferences to come back and there’s nothing actually new to come back out of there within the final week or two.

Ah, however Juventus’ type, although they haven’t performed in over per week now, has been one thing that definitely will be mentioned irrespective of if it’s a global break or not. And the catch in all of that is that Max Allegri’s first two video games again at Juventus has been not precisely what you’d name spectacular outdoors of the primary 30 or 40 minutes in opposition to Udinese.

Due to Juve’s struggles — and, to a better extent, Allegri’s continued “experimentation — that has, shocking to nobody, induced the Italian press to take a position about issues popping out of the worldwide break. And since it’s not hypothesis about what Juve’s roster goes to appear like come the tip of the summer season transfer window, it’s now about what Allegri’s beginning lineup and tactical setup goes to appear like when Juventus return to the sector in opposition to Napoli this coming weekend.

There’s been discuss of a 4-4-2 with Paulo Dybala and Federico Chiesa (?!) up entrance.

There’s additionally been discuss of a 3-4-2-1 — or, a three-man protection if you’d like it in less complicated phrases — the place Giorgio Chiellini comes again into the crew.

So, two completely different stories with two very completely different sorts of setups. Since Juventus has been coaching with a really restricted variety of senior crew gamers over the course of this worldwide break — and only a few of them being what you’d take into account wherever near the beginning lineup — who actually is aware of if both of those formations are even being mentioned understanding that so many necessary gamers aren’t at present in Turin. And you’d suppose that if Allegri is plotting some type of big-time tactical shift that will contain gamers being in numerous positions and all that, then it wouldn’t come throughout a global break when mentioned gamers aren’t even there for one more couple of days.

However right here we’re.

In the course of the primary worldwide break of the 2021-22 season, the Italian press is taking a couple of guesses at what they suppose Allegri goes to do when membership soccer will get going once more this weekend. (For Juventus, meaning a really, very powerful journey to Naples to face a Napoli facet that has began off the Luciano Spalletti period relatively nicely.) They may very nicely be onto one thing, or they might simply be spitballing right here at a time when Allegri’s formational setup and the squad’s total lack of a concrete id have been known as into query.

Sounds nice, doesn’t it?

I’ll go away you with this: Just some days after throwing out that Allegri may use a three-man protection, La Gazzetta dello Sport’s predicted lineup as I kind out this sentence says that Allegri will go along with a 4-4-2 with Alvaro Morata and Chiesa up entrance and Dejan Kulusevski and Federico Bernardeschi on the wings. (The nice in that’s they suppose Manuel Locatelli will get his first Juventus begin, so there’s that.)