The 3 points, second place in the standings, overtaking Napoli, 2 goals and 2 posts and plenty of opportunities. If one makes them enough, the balance is largely positive. And yet, Juventus that wins in Empoli, against the only team that has so far only lost and never scored, still seems a long way from Inter and Milan, but also from Lazio, which also has 4 points less in the standings and after the break he will be the next opponent of the bianconeri. The first truly demanding match, against an opponent who has the same goals as Juventus. Not just derby, therefore: the next one will be a round of truth.
Empoli, currently the main candidate for relegation, he’s too tender to oppose the impetuous departure of the bianconeri once again, he’s becoming a constant. A goal conceded, disallowed; then the good one, halfway through the first half. Both from Danilo and both kicked from a corner from Kostic, one that Juventus tried to sell up to the last second for budgetary reasons, but now that he’s left, Allegri can’t help but use, given the current difference that honestly exists with the young Cambiaso. The agreement with Rabiot is consolidated and remains a value for this team which certainly does not lack individuality. If anything, it is the score, which the choir still tentatively interprets.
What is the new Juventus? A team that raises the pressure on their opponents? Once in a while, every 3, every 5 times. A team that waits and goes on the break? Less than last year and also with much less impact. The slingshots are missing. What remains is that Locatelli seems too poor a resource for the role of director, where the opponents who count have players of other calibre. Don’t deceive the final and even more the opponent: Juventus play in another championship than Empoli.
Vlahovic and Chiesa also stayed in the end and are playing together again this time. The Serbian is the pivot on which the blue and the midfielders rotate who enter the penalty area from one action to another. Almost at sunset in the first fraction, Vlahovic himself has the opportunity to close the match on a penalty (right: Maleh clumsy on Gatti) and relaunch the personal challenge to the other strikers in the championship, but he shoots decidedly wrong, central and slow, and allows Berisha (Empoli debutant, directly from the Toro bench) to keep his team in the game. The Serbian suffers the blow and gets nervous, he will first be booked and then, halfway through the second half, called back to the bench by Allegri, a way to avoid trouble.
Some outburst of Church, not yet continuous, but certainly found, with leg, health and desire, a lot. Like when, launched by Milik in the completely deserted opponent’s half of the field, he doubles up and yes, he ends the game this time. Before, there had also been room for Pogba, who entered with a bang after a quarter of an hour of recovery: great right-footed volley from outside the area, but a goal canceled and a party choked in the cradle by the signal from the linesman, who finds Vlahovic offside, without the need for the Var. From the barely touched joy to the mockery and finally to the grimace of pain that spoils the black and white night right in the final. The nightmare evidently never ends.
@GianniVisnadi
2023-09-03 21:30:00
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