Serie A, the Champions League race: what a crowd. AGRESTI’s comment

Waiting to know if Napoli will take advantage of the crazy second half of Inter in that of Parma, and if it manages to bring the top of the ranking closer, the Champions League race is inflamed. Also in this the game of tonight will be very important, because Bologna – the most fit team of the championship – is now in fourth place and has the opportunity to fly even to the third (it will happen in case of success against Conte). But already in the last two days we have lived fundamental moments in the fight behind Inter and Naples.

here Juve

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Tudor’s Juve had the opportunity to catch Atalanta in third place. It would have been a nice leap forward after the inconvenience of the Motta era, but the match of Rome was really difficult – the Giallorossi even came from seven consecutive victories – and the bianconeri, while stopping at a draw, confirmed that they had started a growth path. To regret, moreover, it was almost impossible. If with Genoa the victory had been deserved but painful, and against a lower technical opponent, this time Juve liked more although he collected a point instead of three. The first half is very good, less the second, but now it is clear that the bianconeri are not and cannot be the bewildered team that we have observed for many months. Tudor is not a visionary of the bench, does not give inventions and surprise shots, sometimes he loves to appear too muscle (and in his career he has often paid for these attitudes), but has the common sense and the concreteness that serve in certain situations. He put the players back in their roles, chose the most fit ones, so he returned breath and hopes to the Juventus people. This does not mean that the qualification for the Champions League is easy, for heaven’s sake; However, there is the perception that all the players are exploited on the basis of their condition of form, their qualities and their characteristics. And it is not a little, especially if there are elements of indisputable value. It has a certain effect, for example, seeing the end of the end, at twenty minutes or a little more from the end, Kolo Muani, Koopmeiners and Cambiaso: the striker that the PSG paid 90 million, the midfielder for whom Juve has invested 60 and the exterior who could go to the City for the same figure in January. How many teams can they afford to have such assets on the bench? And not to mention Douglas Luiz and Conceiçao, who were sitting to see the game until the end. Can a team so fail the minimum goal of fourth place? Motta claims to have been just one point from the Champions League when they sent him away, but the truth is that he should not have been there, close to fourth place, but much higher. Not to mention PSV and Empoli, which are other stories, however, they are part of the same disappointing path.

goddess, what happens?

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After the results of the last two days, and always waiting for Bologna-Napoli, for the third and fourth place six teams remain in the running, from Atalanta (which has 58 points) to Fiorentina (which has 52 and with a glow of hope can preserve it, as well as Roma who has a length of advantage). AC Milan is out: the detachment is too large and the teams that precede it are too large; He could hope for a miraculous comeback if he had won against the formations of Conte and Palladino but in two meetings he just collected a point. The news of the day, in that area of ​​the ranking, is Lazio’s victory in Bergamo. In part because it relaunches the biancocelesti close to fourth place after a period of crisis, characterized by only seven points conquered in six meetings; In part, indeed above all, because the third place occupied by Atalanta definitively lifested. After having also dreamed of the Scudetto, Gasperini’s team today is inside the struggle for the Champions League with all the shoes. And, compared to competitors, it seems to be the one who is worse. The results say it: the BergamoS have lost the last three championship games and have not even won at home from 22 December. And the field also says so, because Atalanta is unrecognizable. Where is the beautiful and winning, aggressive and enthralling team that made us and all of Europe fall in love? Could it be that the announcement anticipated by Gasp on February 22, “I did not renew the contract”, has created this pandemonium? Probably not, it was not those words that made the Nerazzurri lose. Or, at least, they were not just those words. But it is certain that something inside has broken. And in there it does not mean in the locker room, but in the mechanism: everything worked wonderfully, now the head and legs of the players travel in a cumbersome, complicated, unsatisfactory way. Shock intervention is urgent, because it is not enough to transform a season that could be triumphant into a disappointing. And this is not only valid for Atalanta.