Juventus: two sides of one team

8/01/2023

These days when talking about Juventus it is necessary to clarify whether you are talking about the team's football performance or the administrative and bureaucratic situation. In theory, the team is one, yet these aspects could not be further apart.

At the end of 2022 came the news of the resignation of the entire Board of Directors and from there it was all very confusing, who would manage the team after Andrea Agnelli? Who would replace Pavel Nedved? And so on... But in the midst of this chaos what makes the least noise is the team's performance. Because if the Vecchia Signora, deprived of its best players for most of the matches played, appears discontinuous and confused without a real game strategy, it continues to gain points. After the victory against Udinese, Juve have now won eight consecutive matches, and moreover with an untouched net. 

On the field they struggle, they have few opportunities and hardly ever take advantage of them, they always take risks, yet they seem to win a mental game, because in the end they are the ones who come out on top.

If most of the games we only notice negative aspects, what will the team be able to show on the field once Massimiliano Allegri has the entire roster to rely on? Federico Chiesa has just returned, but can't run for 90 minutes yet, Angel Di Maria was injured as soon as he came back from the World Cup, and Dusan Vlahovic is still missing among the others, struggling with pubalgia which doesn't give him peace. At the moment, Juventus is on the shoulders of Arkadiusz Milik (probably the best purchase of this season), Adrien Rabiot who seems to have rediscovered himself, and the youngsters who have finally had the opportunity to show off, like Nicolò Fagioli, Matias Soulé, Fabio Miretti, and Samuel Iling-Junior.

At the moment it is impossible to know how the season will go, whether the administrative aspects will influence the team's results, whether Alessandro Del Piero will really join the board of his beloved team, and whether Massimiliano Allegri is the right coach for this group. But while we are waiting for answers, it is good to say that Juventus currently have the second best defence in Europe (in terms of goals conceded), they are seven points off the top of a championship that seems already written, and for the first time in 10 years they do not have the Champions League to worry about (eliminated at the group stage, they will play in the Europa League). What story will we tell at the end of the season?

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