Juve and Roma are in the round of 2. Waiting to know if Napoli will also be able to reach them, we need to celebrate the black and white and yellow and red people, capable of snatching the much coveted pass to continue their respective paths in the Europe that counts. To uncork the champagne there was no need to resort to help from the other camps, which also arrived: Barcelona's victory over Sporting (0-1) and the 1-XNUMX draw between Chelsea and Atletico Madrid would have allowed the teams to Allegri is Di Francesco to pass even losing.
OLYMPIACOS-JUVE 0-2
Instead, our teams didn't make any calculations and took the round of 2 with two victories, just like in the most optimistic forecasts. Juve's 0-15 over Olympiacos (90' Cuadrado, XNUMX' Bernardeschi) allows Allegri to close the group in the best possible way (the first place, in fact, was already mathematically Barça's), but also to prepare with greater serenity for the huge match on Saturday with Inter, since yesterday evening officially in the thoughts of the whole black and white world.
“It wasn't easy – sighed the Juventus coach – Technically we made a lot of mistakes, we had to close the game early and kill the opponent. But we didn't succeed and luckily Szczesny made two great saves. However, we are happy for qualifying, it was the first goal of the season and we achieved it. Now we can think about the championship”.
ROME-QARABAG 1-0
However, the biggest celebration is all from Rome: in fact, few imagined them in the round of 1 at the time of the draw, which had placed them in the most difficult and balanced group in the entire Champions League. Instead, the Giallorossi not only passed but were also first: an exceptional result, the result of a very high-level journey (in both games with Chelsea) and yesterday's victory against Qarabag, a 0-53 signed by Perotti (XNUMX') which certified a great feat by Roma.
“It was a good victory, I'm really satisfied – commented Di Francesco – They all thought we were doomed, instead we worked well showing that we have a good game but also know how to suffer. It wasn't easy against Qarabag, but in the second half we released ourselves and expressed ourselves much better. Maybe we got the short arm but it's also normal given the stakes, we'll need it to grow and improve further in the future".
FEYENOORD-NAPLES
And after Juve and Roma, tonight it's the turn of Sarri's team, who, returning from stop in the championship against the bianconeri, today he will try to qualify for the round of XNUMX at Feyenoord. However, beating the Dutch won't be enough: Guardiola's Manchester City will have to do the same in Donetsk against Shakhtar. In and of itself there wouldn't be anything particularly complicated, were it not for the fact that the English have already finished as first and that on Sunday they will have the eagerly awaited derby against Mourinho's Red Devils. In short, the risk is to see a City that is not very hungry and very distracted, instead of a Shakhtar very charged with the prospect of reaching qualification.
"I have no doubts that Guardiola plays to win, thinking otherwise would be an offense – thought Sarri – We must only think about our game, full stop".
"We'll do everything to take the 3 points even if, sooner or later, we too will lose - Pep glossed over - Our mentality is to always play at our best, I assure you that we will do it again this time". Sarri hopes for it, but in the meantime he has to think about beating Feyenoord even without Insigne, who stopped against Juve and is unavailable for the decisive group match.
The blue 4-3-3 will thus see Reina in goal, Maggio, Albiol, Koulibaly and Hysaj in defense, Allan, Diawara and Hamsik in midfield, Callejon, Mertens and Zielinski in attack.
Same game system also for the Dutch, who will try to improve a disastrous group (0 points) with Jones in goal, Diks, Van Beek, Tapia and Nelom in the back, Amrabat, Toornstra and Vilhena in the middle, Berghuis, Jorgensen and Larsson in the offensive trident.
