A collapse that could cost the Scudetto. It was supposed to be the weekend of overtaking, then of maintaining that minus 1 won just a week ago, however, barring sensational twists, it will go down in history as the one in which Juve actually won again. Yes, because the 0-3 in Florence, combined with the Bianconeri's victory against Inter, brought Allegri's lead over Sarri back to 4 points, a distance which, with just three games to go, directs the title towards Turin.
In fact, Juve will only need to win at home against Bologna and Verona to mathematically graduate as champion of Italy for the seventh consecutive time, and this if Napoli wins them all. The dreaded away match in Rome could even count for nothing, thanks to Juve and, above all, to Fiorentina, the real star of this 35th matchday. Pioli's team, silently, offered an amazing performance by annihilating that of Sarri and not only for almost all of the match played in numerical superiority.
Koulibaly's expulsion at the dawn of the match (8') certainly weighed a lot but Napoli didn't know how to react at all, so much so that Sportiello, against all odds, played a match without infamy and without praise. The exact opposite of Simeone Jr, who may never wear the Juve shirt but certainly deserves a nice gift from Andrea Agnelli.
Cholito devastated the Azzurri with a great number nine hat-trick (34', 62' and 94'), furthermore he propitiated the expulsion of Koulibaly: not bad for someone who, a couple of years ago, was considered only a son of art and who now, to all intents and purposes, plays a leading role in our championship. After the obligatory compliments to Simeone and Fiorentina, however, it is right to ask ourselves why a Napoli is so ugly, so involved that it doesn't even seem related to the one that, last Sunday, had reopened the championship by conquering Turin.
There are no certain answers but it is clear that the pressure has played a bad joke, especially after Juve's daring victory at San Siro: once again Napoli have shown that they are unable to reset their minds from external factors, be they goals of Cuadrado and Higuain or the wild parties of his fans.
“We were completely lost in the face of the adversities of the match – sighed Sarri – Ours was a more nervous than physical default, we lacked all the team mechanisms we have. Juve? I've always said that the Scudetto was in their hands, indeed we were good at becoming the crazy splinter of the championship”.
Now, however, the journey has come to a sudden halt and thinking of resuming it almost borders on the imagination. We will start again next Sunday from the home match against Toro, already aware of the result of Juve-Bologna: it will hardly be a Sunday of big dreams, because this time, the little-big Simeone seems to have taken all of them away.
