Lost Ronaldo and with Dybala injured, Allegri made a virtue of necessity: the clean sheet became the rule, thanks to the defense but also to the wall that the coach raised in front of her. In Europe, Juve did not start so well … since the last Allegri: the numbers of a specialist in measuring victories
Sorry for the delay, but not so much. It took a month or so, with what it meant for the championship standings, but this is definitely Allegri’s Juve. It does not mean that it is permanently, in football everything comes up for discussion every three days. But if there was a need to prove it on a permanent basis and with a certain continuity, it was difficult to do more than the fourth consecutive 1-0. Aesthetically, Allegri struggles to claim it with pride as “his” Juve, but in terms of profit it certainly is.
BEAUTIFUL AND NO
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There is a lot in between on the axis between the two men who decided the game: “It is a great strength to win even when you play badly”, says at the end Dejan Kulusevski, author of the match goal. “One to zero is the best result, the most beautiful”, commented Mattia De Sciglio, who put that ball on his head. Allegri in the post game veers from evaluating it as “a good performance”, to then become “a good performance”, then “a right performance with an excellent result”, to arrive at the manifesto: “a good result with the right performance, the pairing perfect for arriving with the right anger at Sunday’s match “.
WITHOUT GOAL FOR FOUR
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It is easy to say “short muzzle”. In St. Petersburg it was rather a game that had to end zero to zero, also for how it was interpreted and perhaps wanted. First do not take them, that a zero to zero would have been fine anyway to close the first leg of the Champions League round. In front of the four-man defense a five-man wall, with Bernardeschi and Chiesa reinforcing the McKennie-Locatelli-Bentancur trio: nine men out of ten in a few meters (and Morata with his well-known work), in fact behind the line of the ball . Because the clean sheet is not just the Bonucci-De Ligt couple or the rediscovered Szczesny, it is the result of everyone’s work. And above all, there are some defensive certainties to be strengthened: four games in a row without conceding a goal in all competitions, Juve hadn’t been able to do it for nine months.
OF VIRTUITY NEEDS
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Four 1-0 successes: no team, according to Opta statistics, has won more matches than Juventus this season with this score among the formations of the five major European leagues considering all competitions, only Real Sociedad did the same. Even more deadly, and fully functional to the inevitable cliché, the figure of Prime: of the 198 games won out of 282 coached by Max Allegri on the Juventus bench, 44% arrived with a goal difference and 23% for 1-0. A huge amount. In these last four there is no better definition than having known how to make a virtue of necessity: lost Ronaldo at the beginning of the season, also lost Dybala (and Morata, who has just returned), the offensive potential is what it is. The still unexpressed potential must be squeezed better and more, and Kulusevski’s goal in Russia in the meantime unlocks something, but the games had to be won differently: mission accomplished.
SPECIALIST MAX
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It is the fourth time in their history in which Juve, after three days in the most important cup, have not yet conceded a goal. The last time? 2018-19 with Allegri. The penultimate? 2016-17 with Allegri. The first, for the record, in 2004-05 with Capello. The game will be very Italian, but the results are very European: if the Leghorn is the second best Italian for qualifying for the round of 16 behind Ancelotti, if he has won the last two Italian Champions League finals, Juve has a wealth to capitalize on. And he did it: he had not won the first three games of the season in Europe that matters since 2018-19. Last season with Max. In the meantime, Juve put the Champions League in place for a while. The time to devote now to settle in the league.
21 October – 08:20
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