There are also many positive signs for Spalletti. The team is back fighting and looking for the double goal and for Cambiaso, Kostic and Openda a new season can begin
Three goals all together for Juve, at the Stadium, had not been celebrated for 43 days. And indeed, the Juventus fans had never seen 11 shots on goal in a single match this season. Not even in the bouts against Borussia Dortmund and Inter, which seemed to have pushed Tudor’s team towards great goals and which, instead, were the last fireworks before the end of the party. It seems like a lifetime has passed, because 46 days without winning at Juventus seems like an eternity, but the applause of satisfaction from the Juventus people at the end of the match against Udinese has the flavor of an emotion that seemed forgotten. That of success, of course, which is the only thing that counts in these parts, but also that of having observed a team that did not give up and that put back on the pitch that aggressive spirit that has always characterized its history. That wickedness that has always been part of Juventus’ DNA. Of course, a victory does not mean that the crisis is definitively behind us, but the signals coming from the match against the Friulians will also have pleased Luciano Spalletti.
juve, the spirit seen against udinese
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“He will find a united group ready to give 120%”, is the message sent by Gatti to the next Juventus coach, which echoes that of Vlahovic. The newfound determination is certainly the aspect from which the new coach will be able to start again: Juve returned to fighting on all balls, they were vehement in trying to double their lead after the Serbian’s lightning penalty and, apart from the slip-up at the start of the second half due to Zaniolo’s equalizer at the end of the first half, they never became disunited. In short, it seemed to have suddenly rewound the tape to the best moments of the short Tudor era, before the crisis in results made the Juventus players lose all certainties.
Juve, Openda and Kostic found again
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But there wasn’t just spirit behind the newfound success. The match against Udinese also gave some interesting indications on some men who will certainly come in handy. Beyond the greater centrality of Yildiz and a driving version of Vlahovic, it finally made the Juventus fans smile to see Andrea Cambiaso again deployed on the right wing and returned to the author of a positive performance. It was he who Tudor had openly criticized after the defeat in Rome for his interpretation of the defensive and offensive phase. Against the Friulians, deployed on the other side of the pitch compared to his habits over the last year, the number 27 provided the assist for Gatti’s overtaking goal and allowed the team to finally have two wingers, unlike what happened with the adapted Kalulu in that position. But Spalletti knows this well: on 9 out of 11 occasions, in fact, with the national team, he had placed him there. The other happy face is that of Philip Kosticwho with the Croatian coach had only had 65 minutes available in 11 games: the former Eintracht Frankfurt player was in the thick of the game, touched more balls than all his teammates and favored Yildiz’s cuts towards the center with his runs up and down the sideline. Spalletti has material to work with. In the end, Lois Openda: in his third match as a starter for Juventus, the Belgian finally showed off those in-depth movements and that tendency to move across the entire attacking front that he had accustomed us to in Leipzig. He missed the goal, but he will have time to make up for it. For him, as for Juve, it could be a new beginning.
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