Gambling Appoints Pirlo to be Paid Expensive by Juventus and Ronaldo

Competing at Juventus Stadium, Juventus surprisingly failed to ensure that they qualified for the last 8 of the Champions League. Only needing a narrow 1-0 victory over Porto in the second leg, Juventus instead played 2-1 so that it continued into extra time.

Disaster befell Juventus when Sergio Oliveira scored his second goal while giving Porto the lead on aggregate. In the remaining extra time, Juventus can only reply to one goal so that they must be eliminated by losing on aggregate away goals, 4-4.

Even though Juventus' great desire from season to season is to win the Champions League. In fact, they were willing to buy Cristiano Ronaldo handsomely in the last 3 seasons so they could immediately win the Champions League.

However, with three different coaches, Ronaldo's talisman was not enough to make Juventus win the Champions League, even the semifinals were not able to. Accusations of scapegoats began to lead to coach Andrea Pirlo.

Understandably, Pirlo was appointed as coach this season with a status of inexperienced at all. So that some Juventus supporters began to blame Pirlo and asked the legend to be replaced immediately because it was considered a failure.

Actually, if you want to provide the benefit of the doubt, it's not Pirlo's fault, considering that he is just a fresh graduate. It feels like we need to step back again at the start of the season when they appointed Pirlo, who in the end the gambling had to be paid handsomely by Juventus and Ronaldo .

The Price to Pay Juventus and Pirlo
At that time, Juventus management was very disappointed with Maurizio Sarri's work after failing to bring Juventus to the last 8 of the Champions League. At that time, Juventus were eliminated by Lyon.

Juventus also moved quickly by appointing Pirlo as the new coach. Suddenly it shocked all Juventus supporters, including the legend, Alessandro Del Piero.

“To be honest, I didn't think he was chosen, it surprised me. "I'm glad he took the U-23 role and thought it was the right move for him, but he passed it straight to the first team, so I can only pray for him," said Del Piero with a laugh on Sky Sport.

Del Piero's shock is understandable because Pirlo is indeed inexperienced himself, he has just graduated as a coach. Even in the U-23 team, Pirlo has only been there a week so there is practically no meaningful experience.

If you say that a coach like Pep Guardiola was immediately successful at Barcelona in 2009, then that is not quite right. You see, before coaching Barcelona, ​​he already had experience with the youth team and that was more than a week.

Zinedine Zidane? Indeed, he was very successful with Real Madrid by winning 3 times the Champions League, but that is also because the legend already has a lot of experience. Starting from being Carlo Ancelotti's assistant to being in the youth team.

So, if Juventus management hopes that by having Ronaldo and Pirlo who don't have the experience to win the Champions League, it seems that it will be a miscalculation. Moreover, the Juventus squad this season can be said to be much weaker than before.

There are no more players who are strong in the middle like Arturo Vidal and Paul Pogba or great goalkeepers like Gianluigi Buffon in his prime. There are only 2 outcast players from Arsenal, namely Aaron Ramsey and Wojciech Szczesny.

Blaming and replacing Pirlo is certainly not a wise decision, it will take time for him to rebuild the Juventus squad. It's just that the price to pay is so expensive, failed again in the Champions League and the possibility of only seeing Inter Milan win the Italian Serie A.

In the end, gambling by appointing Pirlo as coach ended up being paid handsomely by Juventus and Ronaldo. Why Ronaldo too? He certainly wants to win the Champions League, but with fresh graduates, he has to lower his expectations.

Juventus vs Porto in the Champions League, Andrea Pirlo will be angry at Cristiano Ronaldo

Andrea Pirlo , Juventus manager, is said to be angry with Cristiano Ronaldo after Juventus were eliminated in the 2020-2021 Champions League .

Juventus were eliminated in the 2020-2021 Champions League after losing to Porto in the last 16.

The second leg  match  between Juventus vs Porto which took place at the Allianz Stadium on Thursday, March 10, 2021, WIB ended with a score of 3-2.

The aggregate match for Juventus vs Porto is 4-4, but Porto has the right to qualify for winning on away goals.

Jamie O'Hara, a former Tottenham Hotspur player who now works as a  pundit,  said Andrea Pirlo would scold Cristiano Ronaldo for a goal from Porto player Sergio Oliveira in the 115th minute.

At that time, Juventus was in a superior position with a score of 2-1. Porto get a free kick. Sergio Oliveira becomes executor.

Cristiano Ronaldo acts as a living fence with 4 other Juventus players.

Sergio Oliveira then shoots the ball across the ground between Cristiano Ronaldo 's open legs .

As a result, the ball slid into the right corner of the Juventus goal which was escorted by Wojciech Szczesny.

" Andrea Pirlo will be furious at him. He ( Cristiano Ronaldo- ed) even turned around while opening his legs," said Jamie O'Hara quoted by  Pikiran-rakyat.com (PR)  from Talksport on March 9, 2021.

"The ball slid through both legs and made Wojciech Szczesny no more chance to reach the ball," he added.

Jamie O'Hara said it should not be done by a top player like Cristiano Ronaldo .

"You shouldn't see things like that done by the world's top players. You have to be able to perform well even when acting as a living fence," he said.