by our correspondent Matteo Nava
11 December 2024 (modification at 23:01) – TORINO
Dusan Vlahovic returns to rejoice at home on action after 253 days, Michele Di Gregorio makes two miracles and Weston McKennie marks half -inverted. To beat Guardiola’s Manchester City 2-0, return to run to the Champions League and straighten a season in falling, you needed such an evening. Thiago Motta’s Juventus heals the draw in the match on the most difficult card of the season confirms that he can make up for the inexperience with character, as in the final match against Bologna. And the ranking, now, is much less afraid.
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In a symmetrical “Recovery Men” operation to plump the bench, Motta and Josep Guardiola touch up as far as possible, the owners in comparison with their respective championship commitments of a few days before. Without Andrea Cambiaso, Juventus finds Nicolò Savona from the beginning, more Khephren Thuram and Kenan Yildiz saved for an hour against Bologna. Pep opts, on the other hand, for two fresh wings, Jack Grealish and Jeremy Doku, with Ederson taking his place on goal as Di Gregorio. Those who are not the opportunity to change are the two center forward, Vlahovic and Erling Haaland, by definition threats number 1 of Bianconeri and Citizens. The coaches, also called to the “trust recovery” and “Points recovery” operations in the Champions League, in short, cook with the ingredients available. The main node of the challenge is that, despite one’s football philosophies based on possession, the ball on the field is only one. Throughout the first phase of the game, the guests manage it, with Rico Lewis who as a left back, under construction, concentrates in the median even more than what he usually changed in black and white, demonstrating the “guardiolane” influences of Motta.
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If the merit of a very cautious Juventus is to deviate English ideas towards the bands with aggression on the ball carriers and compactness in the middle, that of Manchester City is to leave very little the ball to the bianconeri, who make themselves dangerous in the first half With a sudden shot by Yildiz and with a couple of tears but never blossomed in other real occasions. Although the fans push for a greater offensive projection – and Rooming after a couple of losses of teun Koopmeiners losses -, Juventus does not lose the courage to risk a dense ball possession also in their area to evade Guardiola’s pressing. And he does not lose it even after the only but very clear chance of the guests, when Kevin de Bruyne sees in the future and Smca Haaland with a passage in the empty space behind Pierre Kalulu: the defender is lost the Norwegian, but of Gregorio remains cold on the Attempt to “Scavetto” of the center forward and para with his manona. Until then the highlight of the evening is the fortuitous clash between Koopmeiners and the referee Clement Turpin, forced to ask for a break of a few seconds to find his breath after the blow to the cost.
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Tackle lovers will have appreciated the physicality of the first half, which however as a show has no hope of ending up in the Champions League television commercials. Strange to say it, but the cover game makes it twice in an action Federico Gatti, in the 53 ‘, in the action of the advantage. The number 4 elegantly blows the ball in Haaland, restarts in progression by making half the field of the ball and serves to the right Francisco Conceiçao, that she chews it and then gives it back with a cross for the unpredictable half -re -entered of the Juventus center. Goals? Not yet, Ederson rejects, Yildiz Reitra the cross on the other band and Vlahovic takes the net: the rebound riding the door line leaves moments of doubts, but the Turpin Vibra watch and the Serbian returns to exult on action at the Allianz Stadium as it did not happen since April 2 in the Italian Cup semifinal against Lazio.
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At this point, Guardiola’s men change decidedly gear replacing the slow of the first half with much more frenetic steps: the defense of Motta shakes, but rejects several dangerous shots with the sacrifice of those who immerse themselves in rotation. The favorable episode then drags the bianconeri on the boat of suffering and after a splendid parade under the intersection of Di Gregorio on Ilkay Gundogan, Timothy Weah and Mckennie offer running and breath in place of Conceiçao and Thuram. Six minutes pass and the bench produces the doubling with an action that makes the Stadium tremble for the roar of the fans: the former Danilo nails an attempt to dribbling by Doku and triggers the counterattack, McKennie foat for Weah, who first tries a shot – Rejected – And then the compatriot in the middle of the area is needed: half -spirited “to the cats”, this time on the net, and Mckennie makes Guardiola fall into the worst crisis of results of his career. Manuel Locatelli, who was whistled in the pre-season, ends the game by calling the ovation of the fans, now regained.
