Clash of styles as Sevilla horde Juventus
LONDON: Sevilla’s wild-eyed, irascible Jorge Sampaoli faces Juventus’ apathetic Massimiliano Allegri in a fascinating strife of coaching styles in a Champions League tonight.
Both sides are dominant in Group H and seem set to validate with Sevilla, on 10 points from 4 games, wanting a pull and visitors Juve, on eight, requiring a win to pledge a last-16 place.
Should Sevilla go by to a knockout stage, it will meant they won’t be means to urge a Europa League pretension they have won for a final 3 seasons.
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Sampaoli has already brought a exhale of uninformed atmosphere to La Liga, where his side have climbed into third place and beaten Atletico Madrid along a way.
Saturday’s 3-2 win during Deportivo La Coruna, where they scored twice in a final 5 minutes, was sincerely standard of their character that is not for a faint-hearted. The shaven-headed Argentine, remarkable for his generous celebrations, incited Chile into one of a many interesting teams during a World Cup dual years ago and done story final year when he led them to their initial Copa America title.
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Sampaoli likes his organisation to play with a quick and mad style, unconditional brazen in relentless waves with 7 or 8 players fasten a attack.
Defending has infrequently been an afterthought, nonetheless he has given Sevilla some combined steel during a behind and they have nonetheless to concur a idea in a group.
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Juve’s Allegri also likes his organisation to browbeat possession though he is antithetic to risk-taking and mostly talks of a significance of “administering a match”.
He admonished his side after their 1-1 pull during home to Olympique Lyonnais for chasing a diversion in a final few mins and withdrawal themselves dangerously exposed. “We could have thrown a gift down a drain,” he said.
Unlike Sampaoli, Allegri is determined in European football carrying won a Serie A pretension with AC Milan and dual during Juventus, who he led to a Champions League final dual seasons ago.
Sampaoli could explain to be a dignified hero after a 0-0 pull in Turin in a teams’ opening organisation assembly in September. This time, a responsibility will be on a Spaniards, as Allegri has forked out.
Juve accommodate Dinamo Zagreb, who are but a point, in their final organisation diversion and can bank on removing a win they will still need if they remove on Tuesday. Sevilla, on a other hand, face a most worse final diversion during Lyon.
“I trust that a compare is some-more critical for Sevilla than for ourselves,” pronounced Allegri. “If we don’t kick Dinamo Zagreb during home in a final organisation game, afterwards we don’t merit to be in a Champions League.”
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 22nd, 2016.
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