It is difficult to comment on a team that starts playing from minute 78. Perhaps also because the opponents ahead of two goals concede it. It is difficult to comment on a team decimated by injuries and covid: Juve, this Juve, cannot sacrifice four important players at Inter. Difficult to comment on a team that plays with some ghosts. Difficult to comment on a team that should have relied on the counterattack and vice versa the counterattack suffered. Embarrassing: like on Barella’s goal. Threaded by the throw of a 60-meter defender. It is also difficult to comment on the choices of the coach: he produced more Kulusevski in the segment of the match played, than all of Juve as a whole. Difficult to comment on a team that shoots dangerously on goal (Chiesa) only ten minutes from the end. It can be lost. But not being dominated by opponents. Honor to Inter and Antonio Conte. I don’t know how Juventus will be able to recover from this situation. Hard to imagine. It is such a vintage. After nine consecutive successful seasons, however, it can fit. Now Wednesday’s Super Cup against Napoli (which paved Fiorentina) becomes a puzzle. Also remembering that Fiorentina, who have conceded six goals in Naples, is the same Fiorentina who struck three at Juventus at Allianz. Reset everything, forget the Meazza. Hoping to be able to recover some players who do not turn out to be an ectoplasm. The covid, this produces: a physical disaster that lasts for a long time.
For readers who are still convinced that Haaland rejected Juventus. It is not so. Haaland could have made it to Juventus. At a lower cost (even if the payment methods would have been different and not deferred) than the one paid subsequently for Kulusevski.
Haaland (and his dad with him and Raiola with them) wanted the guarantee to play. But Juventus had Higuain: at the end of the race, but they still had him. And he had a coach who explained that with him Haaland “would make the fourth striker”. Because she didn’t know him. Juventus’ mistake was to indulge their coach. The mistake was that of not getting rid (even making a loss) of Higuain. Today Haaland costs 100 million. And maybe that’s not enough.
The Tuttojuve editorial staff sent me the e-mail from reader Andrea Danubi from Castiglione della Pescaia. Although it is not my custom to replicate, I make an exception for the civilization of the missive. Mr. Danubi does not agree with my criticisms of Juventus midfield. I have a hard time ranking him among the best in Europe. If the Juventus attack (forwards and winger) is of quality if the defense is good, not so the midfield. For many seasons Juventus has been able to count on Vidal, Pirlo, Pogba, Marchisio, yes they are among the best in Europe. It wasn’t enough to win the Champions League against opponents who were overall stronger. Dear Mr. Danubi: I find the controversy on arbitrage sickening. There are other things that I do not digest. Yours truly .
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