Juve, Vlahovic first brace and victory: “Three points that weigh. Now Florence”

Dusan Vlahovic’s first bianconera brace, four weeks and a day after his marriage to the lady, arrives on his first return to Tuscany, the adoptive homeland of the Serbian after three years in Florence, and a few days after his return to the Franchi proper, Wednesday for the first leg of the Coppa Italia semi-final: “I don’t know what to say, the sensations are a bit mixed, let’s go there and play a football match”, says visibly excited DV7, not being able to process the feelings that will give him to find Fiorentina as an opponent. I thank them for everything, I lived wonderful years in Florence, it will always be a part of me “. But his first brace also arrives on a field, Empoli, where he had played and scored exactly three months ago in the purple jersey: goal of the advantage in the 57th minute, then the comeback insult suffered in the last three minutes earned him a defeat in the derby. This time to be sure of goals he scored two, and better for him, because Empoli had found the second goal again this time.

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That day at Castellani, it was November 27, was also that of Juve’s last defeat: three months later, match number 13 of the positive streak bears the signature of the Serbian: “A single can never come out without a team, it’s all thanks to the team. If we are compact and united all together we can achieve great results ”, Vlahovic told Dazn at the end of the game. “These three points certainly weigh a lot because we come from two draws and it was very important to win today. In the end we succeeded, we are happy and head to the next match “. And naming him the Scudetto goal he neither confirms nor denies: “We go on one game at a time, then in the end what happens happens”. Fourth goal in six matches between league and cups, four and a half counting the 2-1 against Sassuolo in which the name on the scoreboard is not his, but also the ability to come out with style from a couple of games, Atalanta and above all Taurus, in which for different reasons he had found the first real obstacles: “I was not used to all this as the coach said, but with the right mind, calm, work, determination and concentration you can do everything. From teammates to the coach and the club, everyone in Juve is helping me, I thank them and I hope we will continue like this “.

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So on a day that will remain a milestone in terms of realization – his first brace – the exultation that remains most in the eyes is that in the final, in defense of the ball on the side band in front of Allegri’s bench, as if it were his third goals. It is the most iconic image but not the only one of the desire with which he also interpreted his new Juventus life in Empoli, more than once the first to return to help out in the non-possession phase when the team risked being found unbalanced, leaving behind comrades from more backward departments who also take much less enthusiasm to return to lend a hand (euphemism). And then it was the evening of a new Vlahovic also in the way he was employed.

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If with Villarreal he had hit to see him touch only 15 balls, of which only four were beyond the halfway point, in Empoli Juve exploited him differently, not calling him to come to meet him but keeping him in the heart (or a little closer to the heart) of the defense. opponent, as a fixed point to lean on to get the team up by cleaning up the ball a bit. Or rather, a target to hit with passes from behind, even from Szczesny by skipping a construction that is not very easy, and then playing it on the second ball. It didn’t always work, due to the responsibility of what those who came in tow were able to do, and there will be work on this, but it certainly helped to involve Vlahovic more and better, instead of leaving him abandoned 30 meters ahead of the others. : “Today he moved more, he didn’t just remain central and this was an important advantage for him and for us”, explained Allegri: “He is a character player, as well as a technical player, who we did not have as characteristics at the team interior. He wants to win, he is someone who fights and above all he wants to learn a lot, I think he has a lot of room for improvement ”. And he already starts discreetly at the top.