Juventus is no more, there is a lack of quality and spirit – Corriere.it

Milan’s match immediately ended and Juve’s never started. Between the two defeats that of Juve is much more serious, now speechless, so much so that Agnelli felt the need to intervene, confessing everyone’s embarrassment and shame. There is something unsolvable in the Juve crisis that does not have high-quality players, but has no spirit or desire to play.

In the first half she was overwhelmed without winning a contrast, without a competitive vocation, an obsessively repeated nothing. We are beyond the technical crisis, we are now at the common misunderstanding, a team that looks at each other in silence as it is thrown away. Football has many random solutions that always leave quantum probabilities open, there is now an algorithm for everything, but that of Juve is born anomalous, wrong, it cancels the best parts of the team. Juve is gone today.

Milan’s defeat is more explainable, the referee has put his part in seeing a disqualifying foul that few have seen, with consequent penalty. The game designed by Pioli was shocked. The idea was the one missed in London, that is, a three-man defense, with Tomori in Theo’s area so as to allow the Frenchman to enter the field to mark Mount. Krunic on the right restored the balance between midfielders. The idea was correct because it arose from the mistake of the first leg when Mount had been the extra man. Without Tomori, everything had to go back to basics, leaving Chelsea with an already superior dribble and quality of course.

In these impoverished conditions Milan would have needed the best Leao which instead did not exist. The difference thus came out in full force of him. The quality of Chelsea’s players is superior to that of Milan, the final sum, without Leao, almost unbearable. We are back to the generous game, an adjective that in football has long meant impotence. But if Juve are almost out of themselves, Milan remains within an affordable group. But he scored 4 points in 4 games, a performance more than halved compared to the championship. This too has its own profound significance.