The Turkish is the only Juve player to have played all the seasonal games, but also the one who has undergone most changes. And whoever took his place often has been decisive
Indispensable … up to a certain point in the game. Kenan Yildiz He is the only Juve player to have played all the seasonal games (35 out of 35), but he is also the most replaced footballer by Thiago Motta: in 29 races in which he left as a starter, 17 times he did not remain on the pitch until at 90 ‘. A general trend, this, but which in 2025 clearly accentuated, especially starting from mid -January: in the last seven games, the Turkish number 10 twice remained in the changing rooms at the interval and for three others it has returned to us shortly less than half an hour from the end. But why does Thiago Motta always replace it?
Yildiz, the only one always on the pitch in Juve
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The first reason is certainly due to the wear of a 19 -year -old boy who, in the first season as Big and with all his eyes on him, has already played more than double than he had done in the past. Yildiz It is the fourth player of movement most used by Motta (2,437 minutes) behind only cats (2,645 ‘), Locatelli and Kalulu (compared to the latter two only for a handful of minutes). Last year, excluding attendance in Serie C with the Next Gen, he had arrived at 1,086 minutes. And also for the Stakanovist, in the end, the red light of the lack of fuel was turned on. “Technical choice”, motivated the last change with MBangula the coach. And the decision paid. While Yildiz after the goals in Milan (in Super Cup) and Turin no longer managed to engrave on the scoreboard, those who took his place (Weah against Milan, Vlahovic against Empoli and Mbangula against PSV) was decisive to fix The final result.
Juve, finished emergency
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Another is closely linked to this aspect: in the period in which the Turk seemed irreplaceable, Juve was struggling with an accident emergency that brought it, in some circumstances, to have a rose reduced to the bone, even with just 14 movement players available (in Birmingham against Aston Villa). The end of the contingency has meant that now Motta has more cards from the bench to change the game and that, therefore, it does not hesitate to use them. Especially on the outside, among the roles in which the rotations, for the Juventus coach, have been more frequent since Bologna. And this, united at the opaque moment of Yildiz, means that often touches him to give way to a partner. So Kenan remained so indispensable, but only … in time.
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