{"id":35565,"date":"2025-07-30T23:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/35565\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:57:09","slug":"bianchin-believes-3-5-2-has-become-primary-option-for-allegri-and-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/35565\/","title":{"rendered":"Bianchin believes 3-5-2 has become ‘primary option’ for Allegri and Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Massimiliano Allegri has seemingly decided to move forward with the three-man backline for the upcoming season, or at least Luca Bianchin believes so.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two pre-season friendlies have been played so far and in both of them, Allegri deployed a three-man backline of Fikayo Tomori, Malick Thiaw and Strahinja Pavlovic from start. In the third friendly, against Perth Glory tomorrow, the defence is set to remain unchanged<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition to the importance of creating a solid foundation, relying on the same players, this shows that Allegri likes playing three at the back. Initially, reports suggested that he would use a 4-3-3 but even with signings, this might just be an alternative.<\/p>\n

Bianchin\u2019s comments<\/p>\n

In one of his latest editorials for Gazzetta dello Sport<\/a>, whilst highlighting that a lot could change between now and September, Luca Bianchin also stated that the three-man backline is the certainty. Not to say that it will be the only formation used, but it\u2019s clearly the favourite.<\/p>\n

\"MassimilianoPhoto by AC Milan<\/p>\n

\u201cFinal decision? Calm down\u2026 It\u2019s impossible to predict what AC Milan will look like in September: it\u2019s an equation with six, seven, or eight unknowns. Will Jashari arrive? Who will be the centre-forward? How will the key players fare?<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some certainties, though. The three-man defence has become more than an option: it\u2019s now the primary option for AC Milan in 2025-26. Allegri will most likely vary this season, depending on injuries, opponents, and fitness,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Massimiliano Allegri has seemingly decided to move forward with the three-man backline for the upcoming season, or at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-35565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}