JUVE WINS AND RETURNS THE LEAD!
MARCHISIO AND VIDAL TAKE DOWN THE WALL – CESENA.
COUNT ENJOYS IT: "I'M VERY HAPPY WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF MY PARENTS".
VOTE: 7
All as expected. However, Juve's victory turned out to be more complicated than one might have thought on the eve, so much so as to further validate the new black and white record. Conte's men entered the field with the right mentality, but the poor streak of the forwards (above all Matri, while Vucinic is partially justified by a physical problem) prevented them from unlocking the match in the first half. The ultra-defensive Cesena fielded by Arrigoni (in the carpenter version given the wall built!) thus took courage, and twenty minutes from the end, with the result still at 0 to 0, many began to think that in Turin he could Sunday surprise. But then Claudio Marchisio (for all the new Tardelli) unlocked the game in the only possible way: with an invention. The shot from outside the area was beautiful, strong and precise, simply uncatchable for Antonioli. Game, match, match, we would say in tennis. But since we're talking about football, it's right to remind everyone that matches last 90 minutes, and therefore, at least in theory, the match was still open. Referee Doveri closed it definitively, assigning Juve a non-existent penalty (with Antonioli's expulsion attached) transformed by Vidal. To reduce Juventus' victory to this would be absurd and out of place, but certain that these referees combine one worse than the other. The misfortune of Alex Del Piero should also be underlined, who entered the field in place of Vucinic and was forced out after a few minutes due to a kick in the face from Rossi. The Juventus captain had a bad time, but luckily nothing serious happened. In the end he too, as a true Juventus player, was able to rejoice in a victory that was worth overtaking the Milan - Udinese duo. “I'm very happy with the performance which was dominated from the first to the ninetieth – Conte said after the match – at the end of the first half I asked the players to calm down and avoid anxiety, because by continuing like this we would have unblocked it. We were good at finding the goal against an extremely perched Cesena but we were able to force them so low, because I don't think they wanted to play like this."
Once the Cesena file has been archived, all that remains is to concentrate on Roma, who will play the honor next Monday in an Olimpico that promises to be on fire as never before. But first there will be the Coppa Italia (Thursday in Turin against Bologna), an objective that Conte cares about very much: “Both the boys and I are keen on this objective, also because we don't have a great variety of choices, we must do well. From Friday we will think about Roma but now there is Bologna”.
This Juve is hungry for success, just like its coach. Which is increasingly in the hearts of all Juventus fans.
