Juventus restarting from Cremona, against the only team that hasn’t won in Serie A yet, it’s basically the same one that beat Lazio before the break and more than ever won the last 6 league games consecutively. With Milik and Kean in attack, because Vlahovic was ill and continues to be unavailable, and with Locatelli-Fagioli-Rabiot animating the midfield, as before no one had succeeded. Cuadrado is missing, injured, something changes in defense, but they are details. Wrong to think of Bonucci still as a starter, he only does it in the national team, because Mancini can’t let go of it, but he likes to think that if we’d gone to Qatar, maybe we’d win and we’d certainly come close. And in any case we would have scared everyone. Glad he…
This is to say that Juve has everything to win in Cremona, God forbid. Despite Chiesa in mid-service and continuing to miss Di Maria and Pogba, the most important signings of the last transfer market (Paredes was known to be a midfielder with good football, nothing more, as his career amply demonstrates, including the World Cup). And if Inter succeeds in stopping Napoli, Juventus can think of the direct clash on January 13 (a Friday, for those who believe it) in an even better ranking than this one. restored by the streak of pre-stop victories. And maybe close the first leg almost close to the leaders.
It could be an exciting comeback, not even imaginable after the defeats at Monza (September 18) or that of Haifa in the Champions League (October 11), the lowest points of the Juventus autumn. however it is fair to remember that there are other matches that Juventus will be called upon to play in the next few weeks and for which the owners have shown that they want to be adequately equipped. On January 18, the new board takes office, all law and accounts and zero football, because Exor knows that the most important tournament will be the one to be played in the courts.
There is the criminal matter from unknown times, and if the Gup orders the referral to trial (hearing not yet set), it will in any case be very long, a matter of years. Who knows if and where he will lead. There is the question of UEFA, which for the violated FFP can also lead to the exclusion from the European Cups of the next season or seasons, whatever the placement of Juventus at the end of the championship. And there is the sporting question, Italian, or the possible reopening of the capital gains affair, in the light of the new facts that emerged in the interceptions (decision on January 20). From the 14,000 pages of the Prisma investigation, the salary maneuver and relations with the “friendly clubs” have also spilled over into the FIGC (Atalanta and Sassuolo, but not only) of which the former technical director Paratici speaks in the interceptions (the one, moreover, who only last January, buying both Kulusevski and Bentancur on behalf of Tottenham at prices defined by all as very convenient for Juventus , allowed the bianconeri to have the resources to get to Vlahovic immediately).
It will be curious to understand if and how much the team will be disturbed by the storm that envelops them. Probably nothing and indeed Juventus could find themselves even stronger and more united than ever, cohesive as ever. However, between now and the end of the season, next to each of his matches it is as if there were an invisible asterisk to remind us that beyond the field, the judges’ word is still missing.
@GianniVisnadi
