Where has Juve gone? Everyone is asking after this shocking start to the championship, which sees the black and whites with zero points after two games played. Yesterday's defeat against Roma, as well as relaunching the tricolor ambitions of the Giallorossi, further fuels a spy already lit from last week. It is not yet the case to speak of a crisis but of alarm yes: the current score of the Lady is in fact the worst in her history. Since 1929, the year the single round championship was born, Juve had never lost the first two days. “We have to be clear-headed and analyze what's wrong – thought Allegri. – We need a little more recklessness and it's up to me to pass it on to the kids. Our championship will begin after the break, when we have recovered most of the injured players and the market will be over". Who knows if for that date the coach will be able to count on the famous attacking midfielder, a target on Corso Galileo Ferraris for at least two months and who has so far escaped sensationally. Certainly the number 10 will not be Julian Draxler, since yesterday officially a Wolfsburg player for the sum of 36 million euros. “The club made an offer and Schalke rejected it – commented Allegri. – We'll see if something new comes out on the last day”.
Radio Mercato speaks of a last minute interest in Hernanes and Vazquez, meanwhile Mario Lemina landed in Turin, a young French midfielder born in 1993, who arrived from Marseille (on loan with the right to buy) in an operation that also includes the transfers of Isla and De He chooses. Names that don't warm the black and white people too much, almost incredulous in the face of the defeat of the Olimpico. It's not a question of result, Juve could even have fixed that if Szczesny hadn't denied them the sensational draw in full recovery, but of performance. Because for over an hour there was only Roma on the pitch, almost as if the values of a few months ago had been incredibly reversed. “This was the team I imagined – gloated Garcia. – A victory like this was really needed but no proclamations: I don't want to do like last year…”. The big winner of the evening is precisely the French coach who, unlike Allegri, nailed the formation perfectly. Unusual choices made by him, with De Rossi in central defense together with Manolas, Keita in midfield with Nainggolan and Pjanic and the brand new trident Salah-Dzeko-Iago Falque. A 4-3-3 offensive and solid at the same time, which immediately undermined Juventus' lackluster 3-5-2, once again a "prisoner" of director Padoin. Roma immediately started strong and could have already found the advantage after 32 seconds if Rizzoli had seen Mandzukic's trip against Florenzi in the middle of the area. A narrow escape, a bit like in the 24th minute when Pjanic hit a sensational post when Buffon was beaten.
Series opportunities for the Giallorossi also in the second half, with the Juventus goalkeeper blocking the same midfielder and his compatriot Dzeko. But the goal was in the air and it arrived in the 61st minute: a free-kick from Pjanic (really unleashed) and the ball in the seven. At that point it would have been reasonable to expect a reaction from Juve and instead Roma doubled their lead with Dzeko, very good at heading a cross from Iago Falque (79 '). And to complete the disaster here is the expulsion of Evra, capable of remedying two yellow cards in a few minutes and thus leaving the team in 10. Right there, with the risk of collapse around the corner, the Lady raised her head and found the goal with Dybala (87') and coming close to equalizing in recovery with Bonucci, blocked by the splendid backstroke of Szczesny. It would have been decidedly too much for such a lackluster Juve, against a Rome that is definitely growing compared to what we saw 8 days ago in Verona. We are only on the second day but the feeling of having witnessed a changing of the guard is quite strong.
