David a priori, that's double: Tudor's options for the Juve attack

TURIN - Not being specialized, but being special. Igor Tudor was very clear with his players, and he will certainly be with Jonathan David , who he will meet again only on the 24th, the day of the training camp. Here: there is not much to explain to the Canadian, who between roles and positions, between missions and deliveries, has certainly been used to varying. On the field as in his duties. He is not static, the last to arrive. Nor can he be in black and white, where the rigidity of roles has now become a distant memory. After all, this is also why he has quickly returned to being an opportunity not to be missed: at the center of the reasoning there has always been his way of playing, much more than the fit to be found within the black and white eleven.

The reason is easy to predict: if he is well, no one will take a starting shirt away from him, not even if Osimhen and Kolo Muani were to arrive together. The top, among the desires. Difficult but not impossible. In any case, not a daily obsession. What matters now - and will matter above all to Tudor - is finally having the possibility of varying the offensive front, even with only one more man available, while waiting for the winger. So JD, in the Croatian's 3-4-2-1, acquires a double value and immediately becomes fundamental: he can play as a lone striker with a ten behind him like Yildiz and a quality midfielder like Koopmeiners .

Or do that kind of work himself, which is not trivial, if anything it is expensive and tiring. But he is also this and he will insist on reiterating it: he is a hard worker. Able to run twelve kilometers per game, to play with his teammates, to pass at the right time and without reverential fear. Getting to the bottom of the action, in addition to the natural finalization. Therefore, even if a pure number nine like Victor Osimhen were to arrive, all this would not put at risk his status as a decisive player in the Juventus chessboard.

On the contrary: he could guarantee a quality change on the fly and not necessarily from the bench, but even with the two on the pitch from the first minute. Interchangeability is one of the qualities that will be most requested of him, in this sense. The risk of the offensive phase is that of becoming readable in the ways and times. Jonathan could avoid it, and he could also give new life to the substitutions, from which Tudor has not really gotten anything important. Maybe the opposite.

When boarding, in the 3-4-3 sometimes designed to create chances with more continuity, David would thus become the perfect offensive terminal: he is the attacker capable of coming towards, cleaning up the ball, defending it, and then distributing it. Widening the game. And in particular giving the right timing to the wingers to come inside, create chances, more simply get to the shot.

If they were to have Sancho , Juve could build their chances on a pretty good shooter. If Yildiz were to be there, the discussion is practically the same. And he could bring more goals and more points, more victories and therefore more dreams. Like the one achieved by JD: he wanted him as a child and had him as a boy, at 25, with the right maturity to be able to face him head on and aware of what he can bring to the table of needs. Not just the goals, in any case not a side dish to the story, but play and alternatives. It's worth double. And he arrived (almost) at zero. Many great stories started with fewer premises...

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