Sassuolo-Juve: Dybala between goals, captain’s armband, Allegri and … Raspadori

Each time could be the last, with all the drama that accompanies the ending of a story. The last time with the Juventus captain’s armband, for Paulo Dybala, then entrusted with loving care to Giorgio Chiellini’s bicep at the moment of the change at the beginning of the second half. The moment in which Joya, whose contract with Juve is due to expire in a few months, also gave up for a moment to the embrace of Massimiliano Allegri and the slap of Carlo Pinsoglio who got up on purpose to pay homage. The affection – even from his teammates – for the Argentine in recent weeks of Juventus is quite widespread, beyond the very polarized and impossible positions to be traced back to a univocal synthesis in the variegated sentimental world of Juventus’ social networks.

BAGGIO, RONALDO AND… RASPADORI

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Even every exultation could be the last and in the meantime it is number 81 in the league for Dybala, an altitude at which Paulo joins former teammate Cristiano Ronaldo in tenth place in Juventus history in Serie A. And in all competitions he rises to 114, at -1 from that Roberto Baggio ninth scorer every Juventus era, and reaching him the Argentine would say goodbye to Turin, leaving there a beautiful milestone. The 14 goals in which he has participated in this Serie A (9 goals, more than any other because Vlahovic in Juventus has 7, and 5 assists) are double the 7 of the unfortunate last championship. Still not enough. And the crossing with Raspadori also lived in the scorer – Jack’s first goal, Paulo’s equal – that always crunchy flavor of the passing of the baton that is very popular in sports stories.

SASSUOLO CENTRAL FIELD

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It would not seem like it, but the black-green flags of Sassuolo have a prominent place in the map of Dybala’s career: it is at home against the Emilians who at the end of the first half of the match on 10 January 2021 remained on the ground after a clash with Traorè, bringing back that ‘injury to the medial collateral ligament of the left knee that made him lose three months and the key to the problem of Juve, in a fatal way in hindsight. To complete the picture, on his return to Reggio Emilia he scored a starting game with a goal that turned out to be precious in the desperate Champions League comeback. And to be honest, even in the first leg this year he had put the same goal on McKennie’s head with a quarter of an hour to go, ruined only by the goal scored in full recovery by Maxime Lopez.

THE SWITCH OF EMOTIONS

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The sense of the drama has it that the goal against Sassuolo did not come as the icing of a performance by Dybala, from Dybala, but to redeem an objectively gloomy evening. Five wrong steps, one out of three. Eight turnovers, including a particularly bloody one who risked scoring Berardi in the middle of the first half. “It is not easy for him to play right now – Allegri said of him -, all the balls he has missed tonight he has missed because it is not an easy moment for him. He is behaving well, it was an important goal “. In the emotional pinball machine of the ball, just a minute after the blunder Dybala had the same ball between his feet, which Frattesi in diving took from him from the face of the goal. Appointment postponed at the end of the first half, to go to the locker room in a draw: reception from Zakaria entering the area with deadly times and a nice bow over the strong left-handed who pierced Councils. Each time it may be the last, but there are still five games and big stages to postpone the appointment.