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Juve, week of fire. Lazio-Toro towards the postponement

For Pirlo's Juve, decimated by six crucial absences, the week of truth begins tonight against Spezia: Lazio and Porto are also waiting for it – However, due to Covid, the progress of Lazio-Turin is very uncertain

Juve, week of fire. Lazio-Toro towards the postponement

Juventus-Spezia is played, Lazio-Torino no, at least not today. The 25th day opens immediately with a mystery of the important ones, destined to be discussed for a long time. No official decisions have yet been made regarding the match at the Olimpico, scheduled for 18.30, but we are sure of one thing: there will be no match. "The Prevention Department continues monitoring and confirms, in the light of the numerous cases of the English variant, the quarantine which expires tomorrow (today for the reader, ed) at midnight - reiterated the director general of the ASL of Turin, Carlo Picco - Reuniting the team is impossible."

Then a the grenades cannot leave for Rome until tomorrow, which is why they won't reach the Capital tonight, making it impossible to carry out the match. Compared to last Friday, however, when the match against Sassuolo was postponed to March 17 without discussions, there is a lot of uncertainty about what will happen. For the Football Leagueindeed, as confirmed by the president Dal Pino, the race can be played, because the health protocol signed with the government provides for it, provided that the positives are promptly isolated. The precedent of Juventus-Naples however it induces to avoid bad impressions, because a 3-0 at the table would then certainly be canceled by Coni, just as happened in that circumstance. To be excluded then, barring new cases (the Bull underwent a new round of swabs yesterday, the results of which will come out in the morning), that Cairo can take advantage of the "bonus", which can only be used by 10 positives and up (at I'm currently 8).

The most logical hypothesis would remain, namely that of postpone until tomorrow, which would save the shift and not clog the calendar further, but Lazio, waiting for the away match against Juve on Saturday, he has already made it known that he is not talking about it, in order not to give Pirlo an extra day off. At this point it is probable that the decision will be made to recover the match on the first useful date: today the 7 April, even earlier if the biancocelesti left the Champions League (which is almost certain given the 4-1 suffered by Bayern). The confusion remains for yet another borderline case badly managed by the League (is it possible that in the other championships decisions are taken in a few hours?), but also the certainty that the rest of the round will be played, starting with Juventus-Spezia (20.45 pm).

Needless to say that the black and whites they have only one result available: beating the Ligurians, in fact, is the sine qua non to continue hoping for a comeback for the Scudetto which, to tell the truth, is becoming increasingly difficult. The points from leaders Inter have become 10 and even the match to be recovered with Napoli, to date, takes on a decidedly less important meaning: a consequence of the missteps in the series committed up to now, the last one in Verona on Saturday. "Now we are far from the top because Inter and Milan have won, but we have to look only at ourselves - the analysis of Pirlo – The goal must remain the same as before, as long as there is room to recover we will be there. I know the boys believe in it, if I didn't know this I wouldn't say anything either: the desire to win back the title is great and this makes me feel calm".

Mathematics, for the moment, still proves the Juventus coach right, but not the rest. This Juve, points to the hand, it is the worst of the last 10 years and it would remain so even in the event of a victory over Napoli: in fact, to find a season in which, in this phase of the course, he had collected less, one must return to the 2010/11 and to the sad journey of Delneri, which would have ended with a little edifying seventh place. In short, a turning point is urgently needed, especially since after Spezia there will be Lazio and Porto, which is why it is fair to say that today begins the most important week of the year.

Pirlo's main problem remains that of absences, given that tonight, compared to Verona, only Danilo will return. Morata he will go on the bench at the most, Cuadrado instead he will only meet again on Saturday with Lazio, Bonucci e Chiellini they bet the Port, while on Arthur e Dybala navigate by sight. Today's 3-5-2 is so quickly done with Szczesny in goal, Demiral, De Ligt and Danilo in defense, Chiesa, Ramsey, Rabiot, McKennie and Bernardeschi in midfield, Kulusevski and Ronaldo in attack. 4-3-3 by order for the Italian, who after stopping Milan will attempt another feat with Provedel between the posts, Ferrer, Terzi, Erlic and Bastoni in the back, Estevez, Leo Sena and Maggiore in the midfield, Gyasi, Nzola and Verde in the offensive trident.

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