After 4 victories in a row, the bianconeri stop exposing their defects: “We are angry, let’s think of Atalanta”
Someone might have mistaken it for the prologue of the “All or nothing” series, now broadcast on Amazon Prime Video, but Juventus’s sensational “nothing” against Chelsea was not part of the plans of this docu-film, let alone those of Massimiliano Merry. Who avoided street trials after the 4-0 on Tuesday evening – a score never seen in the Champions League by Juve, while the Livorno coach suffered a similar situation on March 12, 2013 against Barcelona (return of the second round at Camp Nou) – however worries are not lacking. There are technical limits, wrong attitudes and a realization crisis that sends the Bianconeri back on a roller coaster when they seemed to have found the right balance (3 victories in a row) and the ancient spirit. The awakening in London was abrupt and the return trip was thus transformed into a long exercise in analysis, useful for understanding the errors and turning the page quickly. The team landed just before 2pm at Turin Caselle airport, picked up directly on the track by the bus, and immediately went to train at Continassa because on Saturday at the Stadium there is Atalanta and above all there is the fundamental 4 at stake. ° place in the championship.
He lost strength and quality
From the defeat of the Champions to the “final” for the Champions League, the step is short, just as there is little time to run for cover. Net of the possible return of Chiellini and the use of Dybala from the first minute, Juve is this and there are no shortage of defects. From the structural ones, with a squad that has lost strength and quality over the years, to the more recent ones with an increasingly endemic scoring ache. Ronaldo’s farewell is making itself felt in an attack that scores little: at Stamford Bridge there were only two shots on goal, while on Saturday against Lazio the 2-0 matured thanks to two penalties by Bonucci and before the break there Cuadrado thought about scoring the winning goal in the 91st minute. The purchase of Vlahovic would solve many problems, but the Serbian striker will hardly leave Fiorentina in January (“We want to go to Europe and this group deserves it,” he told the Telegraf website yesterday) and that 50 million outlay was budgeted by Juve for the summer. On the repair market, on the other hand, the bianconeri are looking above all for reinforcements in midfield (like Kamara from Marseille) to re-establish a department that is disappointing, but everything is linked to the exits of Ramsey, Rabiot or Arthur.
Advance investments
Foresight and patience are needed, even if the risk of not qualifying for the next Champions League (which is why Saturday’s direct clash is decisive) could anticipate investments. «We missed the game and now we are thinking of Atalanta – says captain Leonardo Bonucci -, but all this must serve as a lesson. We have to be angry and after a defeat like this we have to understand where to improve: they went more than us and there was no malice to avoid this bad figure ». The Champions debacle burns: so far Europe was the happy island of a Juve struggling in the league and instead, together with the unbeaten run, now the certainty of being up to the big names has also disappeared.
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