Moggi says Juventus have no coach after Lazio rout exposes the dressing room
Luciano Moggi argues Juventus' 3-0 home defeat to Lazio shows a team without direction, pointing to Bremer's post-match comments and a costly mistake on the third goal.
Luciano Moggi has delivered a blunt verdict on Juventus after their 3-0 home defeat to Lazio, telling TMW that the team effectively did not compete at all on Sunday, let alone play badly.
Juventus were beaten at the Allianz Stadium by goals from Oliver Provstgaard, Gustav Isaksen and Fisayo Dele-Bashiru, and were jeered off by their own supporters, according to Football Italia. The result leaves them eight points off leaders Inter and Lazio, a gap that now looks structural rather than incidental.
A dressing room talking past itself
Moggi's central claim is not about tactics in the narrow sense but about authority. He said the team lacked a coach in the sense of collective direction, pointing to captain Gleison Bremer's remark that he cannot carry the rest of the squad as evidence of a group no longer pulling together.
That framing matters because it shifts the conversation away from shape and personnel and onto cohesion. A back line or a press can be drilled; a dressing room that is fracturing in public, as Moggi suggests this one is, is a different and harder problem for any coaching staff to solve mid-season.
Luciano Spalletti, who watched the game from the stands while serving a ban, responded to Bremer by saying the defender was as culpable as anyone else in the collapse. Moggi went further, singling out Bremer's role in the third goal, saying the defender escorted an opponent for 500 metres before allowing a shot. For Moggi, that detail undercuts the moral authority of Bremer's own criticism of teammates: a captain pointing fingers while making the kind of individual error that led directly to a goal is, in his words, a significant mistake in its own right.
Spalletti's own uncertainty becomes part of the story
The manager's post-match admission that he is no longer sure his players are following him was seized on by Moggi as confirmation of the wider malaise. Moggi said a coach should not be left without certainties at this stage of a campaign, and argued that injuries cannot be used to explain away comments of that kind.
That is a pointed distinction. Squads routinely lose form or suffer injury crises without captains and coaches openly questioning each other through the press. Moggi's reading is that Juventus' problem sits above the level of individual mistakes or fitness issues, in the relationship between the coaching staff and the group it is supposed to be directing.
Asked directly whether Spalletti's position should now be considered at risk, with sections of the Juventus support reportedly calling for Antonio Conte, Moggi declined to offer a verdict of his own, saying that judgement should come from the fans rather than from an outside observer such as himself. That reticence is notable: Moggi was willing to criticise the dressing room dynamic and a specific defensive error in detail, but stopped short of calling for change at coaching level, leaving that question open rather than answered.
The table now frames every Juventus performance
Moggi's wider comments on the title race only sharpen the contrast with Juventus' current situation. He named Inter and Roma as his Scudetto picks, describing them as the two best-run and most compact sides in Serie A, with Inter marginally favoured. Juventus did not feature in that assessment at all, which given the eight-point gap to the top is less a snub than a reflection of where results have placed them.
He was similarly unsparing about Napoli and Massimiliano Allegri, saying the club has set out explicitly to win matches and is instead failing to do so, to the point where he suggested they have forgotten how to get results altogether. Placed alongside his comments on Juventus, the remark underlines a theme running through Moggi's analysis: that several of Serie A's traditional heavyweights are currently being out-organised by sides he regards as better run from top to bottom, Inter and Roma chief among them.
For Juventus, the immediate issue is less about formation than about restoring a chain of command that Moggi says has broken down publicly, between a captain criticising teammates, a manager admitting uncertainty, and a defeat heavy enough to draw jeers at home. Whatever adjustments Spalletti makes to personnel or system, Moggi's argument is that none of it will matter until the group is functioning as one again.