So, go ahead and put the Bremer prayer circle together so that we can see him playing in Germany in a few days.Let’s hope that the Bremer second-half substitution isn’t a huge deal because the last thing Juventus need is to be completely shorthanded in defense against Freiburg on Thursday.From what I gathered from those who cover Juventus, these players have appointments at J Medical within the next few hours or on Monday: Paul Pogba, Bremer, Leonardo Bonucci.Juventus are unbeaten since Theo Locatelli came into this world.SOULÉ GOT HIS GOAL THOUGH SO TAKE THAT.I totally forgot Dejan Stankovic was Sampdoria’s manager.
3: So much for my hopes of Matias Soulé getting a start :(
2: Beans! Miretti! Enzo! It’s a Juve Next Gen party! 1: I guess it’s time to try and commit the name “Barrenechea” to muscle memory now because Enzo SZN is becoming a thing the last few weeks. So as much as Juve should’ve closed out Sampdoria the first time around in this game, it’s better than completely dropping three points, right? RIGHT? Wins are good, right? RANDOM THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS (I know it’s frustrating, I know it’s tough, but it’s just the reality we currently find ourselves in.) This team needs points if it wants to get into a European place even with a 15-point penalty, and they’re now on the cusp of putting some serious heat on sixth-place Atalanta, if they aren’t already. And with this team sometimes, you just gotta roll with whatever they do if it means the end result is three more points. It was far from routine, far from where we thought it was going after they got up 2-0, but Juve got the three points they needed to get. That was Juventus fighting from behind twice - the first basically coming right after the opening kickoff - to get the win, while this was very much trying to right the ship after seeing your two-goal lead go up in smoke.īoth games ended the same way, though - and that’s what counts. The final scores may be the same, but it was very much a different kind of deal than what we saw in Juve’s 4-2 win against Torino almost two weeks ago. It created a situation in which not only Juve saw their lead completely disappear with what felt like the snap of the fingers but also were pegged back for pretty much the rest of the first half by a team that came to Turin struggling to do much of anything right this season. Because of how Sampdoria roared back into this game with two goals within 61 seconds, Juventus’ easy road to three points became anything but that. We didn’t think they would need to be in that kind of mode - especially after Bremer and Rabiot both headed home first-half goals to set Juve on their way to put their team ahead 2-0.Īh, that was the catch in all of this. It was far from what should have taken place after building such a strong early lead, but with the blackouts come the aftermath, and in this case it was Juventus trying to survive a complete disaster against a Sampdoria side that entered as the team that has scored the fewest goals of any club in Europe’s top five leagues. And while there were still plenty of odd things to make you all go “HUH?!” - like, for instance, Dusan Vlahovic’s entire night - Juventus were able to survive all of the weirdness to beat relegation-bound Sampdoria 4-2 and jump into seventh place in the Serie A table. Thankfully, Juventus’ complete first-half defensive meltdown didn’t extend into the second 45 minutes. How odd and strange this game ended up being made about as much as sense as why the crowd at the Allianz was as quiet as they were for the vast majority of this game.
There was nothing routine about this night. Then maybe you thought it would be a routine win when Juve went up 2-0 on a pair of powerful headers within the first 26 minutes against last-place Sampdoria. We should have known this would be anything but a routine night when there was barely any sort of atmosphere inside the Allianz Stadium as things kicked off Sunday night.
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