From Türkiye to Italy, from Brazil to France: Spalletti’s players have been the most used in Serie A by their representatives. An extra weight in the sprint for fourth place
Squeezed before the final sprint. The break for the national teams makes Juventus pay the highest price among the Serie A teams: 1,630 minutes on the pitch for the 15 Juventus players called up to the various representative teams, significantly more than the competition for fourth place. To clarify, the Roma national team played a total of six hundred minutes less (1,028′), while the Como team played even a quarter compared to the Juventus team (428′). An extra weight to manage.
the joy of yildiz and the tears of the Italians
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And it’s not as if many Bianconeri returned to Continassa refreshed from their commitments with their teams. Manuel Locatelli, for example, in addition to the fatigue in his legs from the 168 minutes played (including time-outs) in the two matches with the Italy shirt against Northern Ireland and Bosnia, will also have the heaviness of having failed to qualify for the third consecutive World Cup in his head. “I’m devastated, drained, with tears in my eyes,” he confessed on Instagram. Like him, Gatti, on the pitch for 115 minutes, and Cambiaso, who Gattuso also didn’t use for even a minute. And McKennie, who will be there as an organizer at the World Cup, didn’t fare well either, he even scored a goal, but in the 122′ of the friendlies against Belgium (5-2 defeat) and Portugal (0-2 defeat) he found himself having to deal with a US national team in crisis. Quite the opposite, however, for Kenan Yildiz, the Juventus record holder for usage in this break, but whose 184 minutes against Romania and Kosovo will have seemed light after achieving a historic qualification, which his country had been missing for 24 years.
the smiles of bremer and kalulu
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For many of the others, it was a chiaroscuro stop: Bremer relaunched his candidacy to be among the 26 who will leave for the United States, Canada and Mexico in June thanks to the good 90′ (with goals) played in the luxury friendly against France, Kalulu did the same with the 92′ against Colombia, Jonathan David sent two messages from the spot in the 163′ with Canada, while Koopmeiners found assists and, perhaps, also a new role in the 112′ with the Netherlands. However, Lois Openda did not make a breakthrough, still without a goal after 100 minutes with Belgium, as did Zhegrova, who, despite her Kosovo team searching for the World Cup dream, found space for just 25 minutes in two matches. Cabal’s 90′ with Colombia, Conceiçao’s 94′ with Portugal, Kostic’s 95′ with Serbia and Adzic’s 180′ with Montenegro Under 21 do little to change their destiny. But they contribute to making Juve the most exhausted of the big teams before the final sprint.
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