Juve, Champions race: how many points are needed and which matches remain

Last year to get into the top four it was necessary to reach 78: Pirlo faces three games within reach but away from home and the crossings at the Stadium with the two teams that have occupied the first place in the standings lost by Juve this season

The close tie to Franchi against Fiorentina is another stumbling block for Juve towards qualifying for the next Champions League. Too slow the pace of Pirlo’s team, which for the umpteenth time concedes too much to the teams in the lower zone of the standings. It would be enough to add to the current Bianconeri standings (66 points) the ten points lost with Benevento and Fiorentina (equal away and defeated at the Allianz Stadium) to find themselves in a more solid situation today. And instead, looking at the history of the last few seasons, those ten points from now on may not even be enough to secure fourth place. Last season it took 78 points to enter the Champions League, nine more than the previous one, six going back two years.

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SMALL OUTSIDE THE HOME

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Juve from now to the end of the championship will have to face three away matches: Udinese, Sassuolo and Bologna. On paper, competitions that are relatively not of the highest risk range, also because – unlike the aforementioned – these are teams that already have a fairly serene ranking situation. This does not mean that they will abdicate their ambition to beat Juve, but that they will have to start with Cristiano Ronaldo and company the greatest desire and bite to win the three points. Easy to say, complicated to do, data in hand: because according to the away matches, to date, the bianconeri would occupy the seventh position, following only six wins, seven draws (those that weigh more negatively) and three defeats. In short, Pirlo cannot rest assured.

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BIG IN CASA

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Even more so because the only two home games, at the Stadium, will be played against Milan and Inter, not only first of the class in the general classification, giving themselves the change at the top, but also in the one relating only to away matches. With the Rossoneri who built the greatest benefit away from San Siro, thanks to thirteen wins and a draw (and only one setback); and the Nerazzurri who were less effective (ten wins, six draws and one knockout) but definitely more continuous than Juve. From this moment on, he can no longer allow himself any kind of misstep: the “non-hypothesis” that Paratici on several occasions in the last period has kept dryly dismissed would cost too much.

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