Two out of two, Allegri’s summer goes on smoothly. After the 3-1 against Cesena on his debut on the Juventus bench, the coach makes an encore at the Berlusconi trophy against Monza: the level of the opponent rises, passing from a series C to a series B, and his team wins 2-1. The bianconeri are still without big players, with Dybala and Ronaldo postponing their debut this season and Morata, McKennie and Bentancur are also at rest, as has already happened at Continassa, it is the youngsters who show off. Ranocchia, for example: the class of 2001 opens the scoring with a splendid left-handed around, then offers many interesting ideas.
In the second half, Kulusevski thinks about doubling, with D’Alessandro’s goal in the final to put some apprehension in injury time. The defensive phase, in fact, still needs to be improved: Allegri starts with the De Ligt-Demiral duo, Monza devours an opportunity at the opening of the race and highlights some too many difficulties.
“It wasn’t easy because we worked a lot during the week, the important thing was to start well – says Kulusevski at the triple final whistle – and I’m learning a lot too: I feel good with the new coach, every day you learn something new”. And on the seasonal goals, the Swede reveals: “Last year we took home two trophies and a qualification for the Champions League but it didn’t go as we wanted: now we want to win the Scudetto, we work for that”.
On the market objectives, on the other hand, vice-president Pavel Nedved takes care of taking stock of the negotiation to bring Manuel Locatelli to Turin: “We want to close and we are confident, we have already talked to Sassuolo and have made an offer: in our opinion is congruent with the player’s value, we will try to solve the last things to be clarified ». At Juve there is a cautious optimism, the next few hours can be the decisive ones to give Allegri the quality man for the 1998 median.