The number 10 wants to close the season in double figures and above all to be forgiven the red that made him skip the last two days

Journalist

May 14 – 12:43 – Turin

Last two laps of Champions Roulette, the lady focuses on 10. The countdown is now over: Kenan Yildiz is ready to get back the shirt he loves, a sort of Batman’s cloak for him, to drag Juventus at the crucial moment of the sprint for Europe that matters. Sixteen days have passed since April 27 and from the afternoon as a red coach of the Turkish against Monza. Many more seemed to the Scatisbona playmaker. A bit like it happens with the temperature: there were two disqualification days, but those perceived at least double. An interminable wait. Kenan has tried all the moods a bit in this period. Warm, after the elbow to Alessandro Bianco, it seemed incredulous and destroyed for having combined her big, so much so that she immediately apologizes with the Allianz Stadium and with all the companions. The sense of guilt was the hardest to drive away and Yildiz will probably get rid of it only after completing the Champions mission. The ten had left the lady in fourth place and now, after the double draw (Bologna and Lazio) and a few shivers, finds it in the same position. The goal begins to glimpse and the star is determined to put the signature on the last meters: Udinese (Sunday) and Venice. The lady is in an emergency, but winning the last two games would avoid pathemas and calculations. Face them with San Yildiz, the brace boy in the derby of Italy and the magic on the most delicate evenings, is the best of possible insurance for Tudor.

Comparison

Yildiz finds the lady and the lady, never winning without her 10, finds a more mature Kenan, for the experience lived and because in the middle of the disqualification she turned 20. The number 10 on May 4 lived the birthday on the Dall’Ara stands: no celebration, only the wishes. The gift is postponed to Sunday’s match against Udinese. Kenan wants to be forgiven on the field, in his own way, and toast to his twenty years together with the 41 thousand of the Allianz. Maybe scoring a goal by his: the last at home – against Genoa and Lecce – were two jewels and brought six points to the bianconeri. Yildiz has created 8 goals in the season and dreams of arriving in double figures, like Alessandro Del Piero in 1994-95. The real gift, however, would be the participation in the cup with the big ears. For the club, at least 60 million is worth at least 60 million and for Kenan the concrete possibility of remaining at Juventus also in 2025-26.

Extraordinary

Tudor finds his ten and begins to count: with Udinese he will be without the disqualified Savona, Thuram and Kalulu, stopped for two shifts by the sports judge after the expulsion of the Olimpico. Heavy absences, which are added to the many crosses. After Vlahovic’s return to the final minutes of the match with Lazio and the forced one of cats, back from the fracture to the perone and not yet at the top, a race against time has begun to enroll Koopmeiners, Cambiaso and Kelly. So much the Dutchman (absent in the last 4 races for inflammation of the Achilles tendon) as well as the blue (injured in Bologna) and English (Ko against Monza) run on the wire. The auditions of Thursday and Friday will be decisive, but the trust of being able to bring all three to the bench with Udinese grows in the Juventus environments. Someone will be asked to tighten their teeth: the greatest suspect is changed. Meanwhile, Tudor evaluates the possible solutions, including the backward of Locatelli and the relaunch in the middle of the Douglas Luiz field.



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