Gioanbrerafucarlo saw football as “a competitive mystery”. He was right. No one would have bet twenty on Juventus’ victory in the Super Cup. Only Rino Gattuso, an expert navigator, had smelled the wind. Juventus has been determined. Not beautiful, but tedious. How Juventus knows (historically) after a defeat.
Pirlo’s Juventus seems to me to be a team from a straight match. A revolution compared to the past (even recent) that saw it as a long tournament team.
Placed on the grill by boastful commentators, after the bad night (also his) against Inter, Pirlo managed to obtain part of what he has been asking for in Naples since the beginning of the season.
He had the Cr7 network. He had Cuadrado’s run and crosses sent out without training. He had a Bernardeschi formed “Atletico Madrid“ for half the race.
He had good things from Bonucci and Chiellini, a great save from his Polish spider-man (more and more leader), a lot of racing from the Texan, good recoveries from Bentancur, order (without inventions) from Arthur. The knot is always in midfield. But the one deployed against Napoli appears (today) the best possible midfield for Juventus.
The state of the art is this. And unless there are sensational, unlikely developments, Juventus will not make any operations on the January market. Rovella has “done”. Reynolds should do. I read that the Scamacca track is always alive. But I would like another track to be alive: the one that leads to Gravenberch.
The only ones from Napoli that I have seen (maybe I’m wrong) clapping at the end of the match were Rino Gattuso and Fernando Llorente: a great man next to a gentleman. In general I have listened and read that he did not “win Juve”. It was Napoli to “lose”. Insigne stoned for the mistake from the spot. As the minstrel sings “it is not by these details that a player is judged”. Insigne has been the “most” of Napoli for months. The kind of player Juventus is missing. He awarded Dal Pino: perhaps because Gravina was busy preparing a declaration for the agencies. On why “he did not set up” at Coni. Maybe .
Andrea Agnelli was certainly busy at the assembly of the newborn “Stellantis” and therefore absent in Reggio Emilia. Some Juventus fans have argued for the absence. Losing an opportunity to enjoy the harmony of silence.
On Sunday Juve receives Bologna (certainly without Dybala, probably still without De Ligt and Alex Sandro): at the time of tortellini in broth. Juve have so far been like a talented daughter guilty of pranks. Which every time promises: except to keep in … installments. Reassembling Milan and Inter will be difficult But the great Woody would advise: “Try it again, Juve”.
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