This draw really hurts. And we, unfortunately, are experts in X, we know how to recognize its weight. In Bergamo we saw probably the best Juventus of the season on a very complicated pitch but once again the appointment with victory is missing, an appointment that has been missing for two months now. Before making judgements, we need to learn to look at a reality that I have been telling you about for months (evidently without being listened to), the project is this: young team, lower wages, market intuitions, reconstruction in a three-year project. Fourteen points lost from an advantageous situation tells a lot about a team that is still inexperienced and untrained and that still has to eat a lot of dry pasta. Of the many points thrown away this year, these are the ones that sting the most and leave the greatest bitter taste in the mouth, because drawing in Bergamo against an Atalanta team that is fighting for the Scudetto could happen, it’s the path taken up to now that brings bitterness .
This is not the evening in which to look for culprits, faults and bitterness, it is the evening in which to enjoy the steps forward that have been made, the important signs that give rise to hope. This is the night in which to hope for a change of pace at least in security, in self-esteem, because offering a test of this consistency on such a difficult field can only give positive signals to be collected and protected. We will be able to make sense of this evening, however, only if we beat Milan on Saturday and then at least attempt the feat in Naples in the last match of January, otherwise this too will be a draw like all the others. Fortunately, a big hand is about to arrive from the market, Giuntoli will try to give important and new arrows to Motta but here too everything will make sense if the former Bologna coach knows how to make the most of them. This is the time to build values and not lose those that are there, it’s fine to position yourself as a leader, but you also need to build them in the locker room and on the pitch because it is during the matches that war is waged and you win the war with leaders on the pitch and this Juve doesn’t have them at the moment.
The watchword must continue to be patience: those who have it will know how to wait for Juventus’ growth and fully enjoy the successes that will come; those who don’t have it are destined to move from one hasty judgment to another, continuing wars of principle that lead nowhere. Tonight I choose to be on the side of Motta, Giuntoli and Juve who will emerge very soon, now more than ever.
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