Good signs from yet another equal: now that another real center forward has finally arrived, the turning point could come
Juve have made 13… draws, but perhaps this time more than others the point they take home from Bergamo has a sweeter flavor than those of the majority of matches neither won nor lost in the championship. Motta’s team held their own against a team that up until now had always scored at least two goals at home in the championship, playing on par also in terms of intensity and desire to fight, leaving the ball possession to their opponents, but proving more dangerous (9 shots on target and one post out of 17 attempts, compared to 6 for the Nerazzurri). The regret, for the Bianconeri, is always the same: not being able to materialize the opportunities created.
No center forward, no party
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Still without Vlahovic and waiting for Kolo Muani, this time the Juventus coach has invented an offensive poker made up of Yildiz, Koopmeiners, McKennie and Nico Gonzalez, free to exchange positions and not give references. And the move worked because the Dutchman worked well with his back to goal, the Turk played a “full” game in both half of the field, the Argentinian grazed the post from the edge and the American sent Kalulu into the goal ‘goal action and Yildiz in the 91st minute in Juventus’ greatest opportunity to score a coup. But the numbers speak for themselves: without the only center forward in the squad, Vlahovic, Juve scored 3 goals in five matches (one against Lecce, Turin and Atalanta, zero against Milan and Aston Villa), against 42 in 22 matches. In short, the average drops from 1.9 to 0.6. A third.
who lights the spark?
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On the other hand, apart from the Serbian, the never available Milik, Koopmeiners and Nico Gonzalez (who have reached a career score of 15 goals in one season), no other Juve player has double figures of seasonal goals. Yildiz doesn’t have it, in his first real year as a starter, nor Weah, nor Conceiçao, nor, much less, Mbangula. Now, however, in addition to the return of Vlahovic, Thiago Motta’s squad will be joined by a center forward capable of scoring 23 goals in a year in the Bundesliga and returning from 4 consecutive years with at least 10 goals scored. In short, a spark seems to have struck Juve in Bergamo. Vlahovic and Kolo Muani now have the task of turning it on definitively.
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