Guessing everything will be calm, cool and collected and there will be no speculating at all because the Italian press never, ever does that sort of stuff. Surely the Italian press is not going to make a big deal out of Alvaro Morata and Max Allegri getting into it a little bit after the Spaniard was subbed out in the second half.Very glad that we got the chance to watch Kaio Jorge come as a sub.You know, where he’s meant to play rather than the alternative. Something tells me Dejan Kulusevski likes playing out wide on the right in the 4-2-3-1 as compared to his previous excursions as a makeshift striker.It also woulda been nice to see the kid go up against Manuel Locatelli, but that was never going to happen after Rovella came out injured midweek against AC Milan.
They’re a bad team overall, but man did Genoa miss Nicolo Rovella in this game.Genoa have yet to score a goal in those four games. Andriy Shevchenko has been Genoa’s manager for four games now.Juventus had 69 percent possession the first half.Paulo Dybala said after the final whistle he thought it was by mistake.)
(And who knows if that was the original plan all along.
There was no reason for that game to be as close as it was even though Juventus were dominating both the possession and the amount of scoring chances being created. They missed some chances, too, but a lot of it simply had to do with a 34-year-old Salvatore Sirigu turning back the years and looking like prime Stefano Sorrentino any time he played against Juventus.īecause of that, it was the kind of game where we all knew Juventus shouldn’t be ahead by just one goal for pretty much the entire second half until Dybala’s breakthrough. As much as Juve were creating following Juan Cuadrado’s olimpico goal in the first half, the second goal was looking like it was impossible to actually score. Of course, this was a game that should have never been 1-0 heading into the final 10 minutes. Not exactly where we had hoped Juve would be come the first weekend of December, but it’s a little better than how things have been looking.
It was a goal, Dybala’s fifth this season, that secured a 2-0 win over Genoa on Sunday night and allowed Juventus to get a full six points out of six points a week after they came away with no points and looked pretty lost as a team.Ī week later, they’ve won two games against opponents in the relegation zone to begin a soft spot in the schedule and jumped up to fifth place in the standings. Simply a “thank goodness” for the fact that Juventus, despite the players’ best efforts to extend the scoreline, didn’t throw away the 1-0 lead even though they allowed Genoa to hang around a whole lot longer than any of us would have liked.īut once Paulo Dybala’s shot in the 82nd minute hit the back of the net, there was a collective exhale both in the crowd on a near-freezing night at Allianz Stadium, but also from anybody who has black and white rooting interests.