New coach Thiago Motta’s bet on youth paid off again, as Juventus achieved its second consecutive victory with a big score, this time over host Hellas Verona, with three clean goals, in the second round of the Italian Football League.
Similar to the opening match, which he won against the returning Como by the same score, the sacked successor Massimiliano Allegri played the match with a lineup dominated by youth.
After Federico Chiesa was out of the squad because he was not in Motta’s plans, the former Bologna coach played the match with players such as the new Colombian arrival Juan Cabal (23 years old), the Belgian Samuel Mbangula (20), the Turkish Kenan Yildiz (19), Andrea Cambiasso (24), Nicola Fagioli (23), and Nicola Savona (21), who was set to score.
But the most prominent star was the Serbian Dusan Vlahovic, who scored a brace in his 175th match in the Italian League, despite being only 24 years old.
Now, the “Old Lady” team is testing its seriousness in competing for the title that it monopolized for 9 seasons between 2012 and 2020 before being satisfied in the last four seasons with watching Inter (twice), Milan and Napoli win the title, when it hosts Roma next Sunday in the third stage.
Juventus finished last season in third place, but 23 points behind Inter, who won the title, and only 3 points behind Bologna, who Motta led to fifth place and thus participating in the Champions League for the first time since 1964.
In the final minutes, Motta introduced two other young players from the youth team, namely the Swedish defender of Moroccan origin Jonas Rouhi (20 years old) and the striker Lorenzo Angeli (19 years old), in addition to the new arrival from Milan, the French defender Pierre Kalulu.
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