One week after the direct clash in Turin (but first there is the midweek round), there is the risk that the match between Juventus and Napoli is already aimed at deciding: if the task of Sarri's men would have been difficult with 4 points of gap, it is even more so now that the points to be recovered against the black and whites have become 6, with six games left until the end of the championship. Juve thus have a two-win lead, which could become three if they win at the Allianz Stadium, which would definitively close the accounts. But for Allegri, this being the case, even a draw could go just fine: even a victory for Napoli, which would be the first ever in the new Juventus stadium, would only partially reopen the games, because after that match there will only be four more.
The probably decisive extension came today, with Juventus and later the great disappointment of the Champions League reacts and overcomes Sampdoria with a score of 3-0, while shortly before Napoli had not gone beyond the 0-0 draw at Milan. An all in all fair draw, that of the Campania players, who however wasted a sensational opportunity with Milik in full recovery. The team appears tired and unloaded, after a season always on the crest of a wave, probably played beyond its limits to deprive and get rid of the six-time Italian champions. On the contrary, Juventus, almost always in pursuit in this championship, seems to be on its way to the seventh seal: an absolute record, which they could achieve by also achieving the record for points in a single season, over 100.
In the midweek round, approaching Saturday night's highly competitive match at the Stadium, Juventus will be busy in Crotone, while Napoli will host a Udinese side in full crisis, which has been losing games for two consecutive months. After the match in Turin, however, there will be four games left, in which Napoli - for what it's still worth - will have a better calendar: the Azzurri play against Fiorentina, Turin, Sampdoria and Crotone, Juventus against Inter, Bologna, Rome and Verona. But it is evident that, except for a Neapolitan victory in Turin which could at least partially reopen the games, the fate of this championship is sealed.
