#4 Monaco’s 3-4-1-2 proved ineffective
Leonardo Jardim’s choice to go with two upfront with Bernardo Silva roaming completely backfired. The Portuguese manager should have instead gone man for man with Juventus’s back three, thus occupying them all times. This could have created overloads as runners from midfield provided 3rd man runs from all angles.
Instead, Jardim’s system relied on width provided by the full-backs Benjamin Mendy and Andrea Raggi. While Mbappe and Falcao operated more centrally as inside forwards. It became futile as Juve’s centre-backs dominated aerially and wing-backs Alex Sandro & Dani Alves nullified Monaco’s width. On another day, a bolder approach from Jardim could have been all the difference the French team needed.
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