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From Goal.com Romeo Agresti
Double goal for the Bianconeri: to get a place in the top 4 in the league and get to the final act of the Europa League.
It's a time when there's little smile at Juventus. Between the field and off-field, in fact, in recent months the daily life at Continassa has become atypical. There is little talk about football and, when that happens, it's not that the results are so exciting. Euphemism.
Head to the topicality, to the match against Lecce. With the firm will to send into oblivion a recently ended horror month characterized by 2 successes, 4 defeats and 3 draws. All this, with the elimination in the Coppa Italia.
In short, for Juve it will have to be a different May at all costs. Clear guideline, punctuated by CFO Francesco Calvo, with a double goal to be achieved: to rank in the top four in the league and win the Europa League final.
There is a lot of play with it, not all because the courts will also do their part, but in terms of the turf the gang led by Max Allegri has no alibi. That's why, at the end of the indelible weeks, the fans expect so much from Dusan Vlahovic, Angel Di Maria and Paul Pogba. A trio that, for different reasons, has not managed to impose itself continuously within an increasingly soap opera season.
THE SITUATION OF VLAHOVIC, POGBA AND MARIA
Let's start with DV, from the one who should have become the epicentre of the Bianconeri attack, and who instead has become in effect a case. Of course, pubalgia has heavily influenced the performance of the Serbian, but the perception remains clear that the former Fiorentina has not yet managed to express much of its potential in the shadow of the Mole.
There are those who argue that it is – in general – a problem to be associated with the opaque offensive zebra production. Others, on the other hand, are of the argument that the technical gaps of the person concerned are holding back an investment of over 80 million. Opinions, the fact remains that we are talking about 11 goals in 36 tokens. In short, too little.
That said, woe to underestimate the specific weight of the striker, and who knows if the return to the goal in the league does not go on stage against the Apulian team. Or rather, this is the Old Lady's wish, to start throwing some water on an increasingly unmanageable fire.
What about the Fideo? Literally essential in the first few lines of the new year, now in a new phase of decline. The malignant argue that, once he understood that he would not leave Bologna from the beginning, Di Maria would have preferred to stay in Turin to better treat a slight blunt trauma to his right ankle. And, maybe-maybe, then so malignant they are not.
But now it's past, legs turned to current affairs, without thinking too much about the renewal topic. Will it come? The dialogue with the Argentine entourage is underway, but the climate of uncertainty that accompanies Juve evidently does not help to quickly lighten the issue of extensions. It will take patience and, above all, whether or not to participate in the next Champions League makes all the difference in this world.
And what about Pogba? A surreal vintage. From the bankruptcy strategy linked to conservative post-ko therapies in the summer to the lost World Cup, passing through a slew of problems of a muscular nature to be associated with the inactivity experienced in the final months of the adventure at Manchester United. Here, as Allegri would say, there is nothing to talk about but to do. And it would also be now, by virtue of a very prestigious four-year anniversary in existence.