Juve, the numbers of the Juventus rebirth: because they can believe it

Enchanting the eyes is a different thing, but with the constancy of the drop and the ability to separate the European shipwreck from the journey in the league in the end, Juve can be found there. You can find it there not only in front of the Inter just beaten at the Stadium, but at -2 from Atalanta and Lazio third in the standings. And even, what is most striking because it was a team with a hardly questionable performance, 4 behind Milan. Not Napoli, Napoli have another championship so far, and in fact they are up there at +10. But with all the evil that has been said and that can legitimately be said of Allegri’s start of the season, the performance remains below expectations but raising your head and finding it there reveals a different flavor.

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Separating for a moment what in the perception of the period is inseparable, that is the cup path from that of Serie A, in the six league games after the stop of the national teams at the end of September, Juve won five: the only stop, for how disappointing, he arrived at the home of defending champion AC Milan. He helped the calendar, but that would have helped with Monza too, never winning until then, and after that flop Juve knew how to help. And a couple of games had the highest difficulty coefficient, and it was those (Turin and Inter) that made it possible to dispel two taboos: that of away victories that had been missing for six months and that of a success with a big team that in the ‘Allegri-bis had never arrived.

THE DEFENCE

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The corollary of these four consecutive victories in the league is that they arrived with four straight games without conceding a goal, reaching the sixth clean sheet of the season and confirming themselves as the least beaten defense in A with 7 goals conceded, of which 5 in the first seven games and only 2 (those of San Siro) in the last six. In other words, the span of races in which Danilo’s technical leadership has grown decisively. With Inter Bonucci, who for personal reasons needs to be managed and not always possible, he has not even entered. But Bremer is back, the highest-paid purchase of the summer, and he is back with a dominant performance, perhaps the best since he joined Juventus: he arrived against Inter who arrived in Turin with the second attack of the championship, always on target in the previous 12 days.

THE INDIVIDUALS

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It was also the period of Filip Kostic’s growth, parallel to Allegri’s search for a new system from which to start again at the worst moment: against Inter he placed two assists and they would have been three without the goal canceled (rightly) to Danilo, in all he is at six in the season and five in the league, all in the last nine games. And against the Nerazzurri, as already in Lecce and with PSG, there was not even Vlahovic, who should be the spearhead of this Juve. Another couple of spearheads have just returned, Chiesa already in the final with Paris and Di Maria with Inter. The break arrives in less than a week to interrupt any reasoning, but half a season remains to be played: Juve gets there worse than they would have liked, but the last month says they get there alive.