Juve-Salernitana, Dybala in the Top 10 of goals: the hug with Allegri

RSVP, “répondez s’il vous plaît”: please reply. To the invitation to the meeting for the renewal, finally set for Monday between the management of Juventus and its representative Jorge Antun, Paulo Dybala sent the answer: as he gets better, from the field. Starter for the first time in a month, when he came out after 53 ‘of the derby with Toro for the last of the five seasonal injuries, in the first available ball – fifth minute – he inflated the net (whether it was Salernitana’s goal is only a’ context information). Rejoicing as a boss of the Stadium, then there is time for a gesture towards the grandstand pointing to the family: this time particularly grim looks to look for real or alleged friends, as was the case with Udinese, would not have been a smart way to enter the match with the management. The goal can be enough and advance. And after the nod to the grandstand, one towards Max Allegri: yes, precisely that of the antivigilia disagreement, even with strong tones from the coach in the locker room.

The hug with Max

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Strong tones not towards Dybala as Dybala, but as representative of the group and spokesperson – together with Cuadrado – because he was higher in rank: maybe it would have been the same if Chiellini and Bonucci had gone there (or maybe not, maybe the request of some an extra hour of freedom after the elimination in the Champions League, it would not have come from them). With the technician, who in the summer at the time of his return and the hoped-for restoration had put the Joya at the center of the project, there was even more. Minute 57, change: standing ovation from all over the Stadium, loud and clear message, which Paulo enjoyed at a slow pace towards the sideline, reciprocating the clapping, entrusting the band to fellow union battles Cuadrado, and indulging himself with transport to the hug from Massimiliano Allegri, if a great public gesture was needed to give a gloss to a private event, the disagreement, which took a moment to flare up when he came out of the locker room. And Allegri made no secret of having fun with it: “A little casino is good for you”, he said.

The Goodmorning

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The theme of the match with Salernitana was how Juve would react to the elimination from the Champions League, then it took five minutes to become someone else. With Paulo Dybala, a good day starts in the morning: it is already the third goal that arrives in the first five minutes of the game, the others at 3 ‘both with Sassuolo and in the first championship in Udine. Out of 13 goals of the season, it is the eighth that arrives within the first twenty minutes: the others on 11 ‘with Zenit, on 10’ with Sampdoria, on 19 ‘on the return with Udinese, on 18’ a Roma, in the 21st minute of the first leg to Salerno (because Paulo becomes attached to certain opponents). In Serie A it is the eighth goal of this year, as Opta signals we are already at the double of the terrible last season, playing only one more game so far than then. The opponent was the last in the standings, however vigorous, but the Argentine interpreted it in the name of beauty and competitiveness, a wink to aesthetics and participation that was not unprecedented but always interesting even in the non-possession phase.

In the Top 10 Juve

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With a predilection for starting from the right, even from the sideline, but in a 3-5-2 in which the role of support for Vlahovic does not marginalize him in the band or enclose him under the tip but leaves him free to wander. With the tare obliged to whoever was in front of him, when Dybala plays like this it seems incredible that a possible and indeed real scenario is the choice not to renew. Unknowingly in the deserved ovation of the Stadium there is also the milestone of the day: for Joya it was the goal number 113 in the black and white jersey that allowed him to hook Federico munerati and enter the ten best scorers every era of Juventus. A couple of steps higher, at an altitude of 115, the next is Roberto Baggio. A “10” that made Madama’s history, but with which it ended a bit like this: Juve already had other plans for the future.

So at the table

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Juve’s plans will tell them what Maurizio Arrivabene and Federico Cherubini will put on the table of the meeting with Jorge Antun, if the widely confirmed indiscretions of a five-year review of eight million plus two bonuses materialize in a reduced offer in the entity. (seven million plus bonuses) and in duration (three years, but the “two plus two” rises), the result of the entry into the negotiation of the theme of attendance and performance. After the aforementioned investiture of Allegri who had put Dybala at the center of the project, that center was attributed to Vlahovic (who is neither jealous nor possessive, and he proved it by sending Paulo into the goal for the 1-0, indeed he cannot than enjoying a partner like that). The meeting will be a contact, definitive results will be able to come out only in the worst case, it will rather serve to listen to each other. But the ways will also play a role. Perhaps more than anything else.