Juve, it’s done? – The Republic

Finished? Logic would impose to answer yes. Sure, as long as the mathematics and bla bla bla. But it’s the same math that says 20 wins and a pair in 21 games and suffered only one goal (though a penalty) by Juventus in the last 12. To be honest, the feeling it was over it was getting off already on +3, let alone on +6. Then we know that sometimes the logic in football ends up crumpled in the trash, but it is necessary that there is at least a minimum prerequisite to subvert it. The problem is always the same: the level of opponents. Not of Naples or Rome, but of all the others. Those that Juve tackles in 90% of the games (and who will face from now on). They say that our league is the most difficult because even small to medium teams boast a defensive organization of the highest level. And it is certainly true (even if you could talk about the individual qualities of the defenders). But the point is that this lower water resistance than the same grade of other leagues, offset by an offensive talent too small to do more than tickle a block of granite as Allegri’s team. And even those few players who should possess a quality crumb will melt in the presence of Buffon (see Saponara Saturday) pursuers remains very little to cling. Because who knows what the other side does not need to make a goal. Just a flick isolated and the game is in ice. Saturday is the turn of Mandzukic, on other occasions they had thought about it Dybala or other, but the music never changes. That obtained against Empoli is the sixth win 1-0 at Juventus in this championship, after those in Milan, Rome, Genoa, Naples and Sassuolo. And the latest 5, including this one, have come in the second round. At the same juncture where Napoli gave the show by scoring 16 goals in 6 games at the San Paolo, Juve has made just seven in 6 match at the Stadium. But it made 2 points more …

Frustrating. Adjective that we’ve used and we can only repeat. So frustrating to send you out of your mind, sooner or later. And in Naples, after much resistance and encombiabile, it happened yesterday in Udine. The yield has signed ideally just the last to surrender, or Higuain. Who, having long kept her clinging to a twig on the edge of the ravine, he released his grip making eject and depriving them of its input for who knows how many games to come, given the reaction to the decision. A disqualification which could also cost him the Nordahl records, while even closer with the 30 ° center to Dacia Arena. The three goals to passive (plus a missed penalty from showman Bruno Fernandes) know how much of an epitaph for a team that along the way has gradually frayed, remaining in the race only through the game, the strength of nerves and all’implacabilità of his bomber . It is not enough. If you can not lock down your door, the tidal wave that sweeps you away is always around the corner. And it arrived on time.

Locking Down your, port, with a long list of injured defenders as well and a back line composed accordingly to 4 absolute beginners in the derby for Lazio announcing more complicated than ever . Indeed, the paper mache dam crumbled to the passage of the Giallorossi hordes, bringing exemption Pioli on biancoceleste bank and opening up unexpected horizons on the side Roma player. The final on Sunday, for Spalletti, speaks of a reduced gap to 4 points from Napoli, key assault in second place, and dilated to 7 and 8 on Fiorentina Inter optical protection of the third. Yes, because behind the Roma are echoed notes the de Profundis. From the purple, it stands on equal another shaky (Samp as Verona and Frosinone) and have not won since February 21 (3-2 in Bergamo). To continue with Inter, which for the second year in a row there has been stab home from Torino, and with live across Milan, they too lead on a penalty kick and they remounted and defeated, dall’Atalanta.

Thank the Sassuolo, who makes his arrogance the derby with Carpi and reduces the deficit to a single point by the Rossoneri in the race for the last available place for Europe. Still weeps with one eye Beavers, heartened by the defeat of Palermo (against Chievo) and the Caporetto of Frosinone, buried under the blows of Suso (hat-trick) at Marassi. Tonight Bologna-Verona exit the program for the 31st day.