Zaccheroni Admitted That His Strategy Was Not Successful

Alberto Zaccheroni started to change Juventus’ formation into his favourite formation, 3-4-3. But, this Mr. Zac’s strategy wasn’t working perfectly and the Bianconeri failed to get a victory.

This was the first time since he has been taking care of Juve replacing Ciro Ferrara last January, Zaccheroni used the formation 3-4-3. In his premiere league versus Lazio last week, Juve was still playing in 4-3-1-2 formation.

But the change of tactics became the only one change of Juve this time. If we look at the result, Alessandro Del Piero and his team were still not able to get victory because Livorno held them with 1-1.

“We made too many mistakes, we didn’t get used to the formation and the new tactic doesn’t work properly,” Zaccheroni said after the league as quoted by Football Italia.

By placing 3 backs in the center and 2 backs on the wing, Juve’s back line became weak and their opponent got the score first by Antonio Filippini’s heading. Zaccheroni was lucky because of the appropriate reaction, could make the score even through Nicola Legrottaglie’s heading.

“However, that was a rare event which Juventus was succeeded to make the score even after being left behind first. We’ve showed a good reaction,” Zaccheroni said.

“The big worry is we have giant players in the defense line but it was broken by short players with free headings. We can’t let this thing continually happen and we should put more attention into it,” he said.