Serie A, Cagliari-Juventus –

A Juve poisoned by the elimination from the Champions League is about to enter the decisive week to try to keep alive the hope of reopening the championship race. On Sunday at 6 pm, in Sardinia, he will challenge Cagliari revived by Leonardo Semplici (7 points in 3 games), then on Wednesday he will recover the challenge with Napoli.

from the cup to the championship

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In the first leg, Juventus won thanks to the brace of Cristiano Ronaldo, the very protagonist missed against Porto in the Champions League, much criticized on social media and by the media. The elimination in the round of 16 has, in some way, ruined the recent progress of the bianconeri in the league: only Inter (22), in fact, has obtained more points than Juve (19) in the last eight days: six wins, one draw a defeat for Pirlo, with just three goals conceded. Juventus have also won eight of their last nine Serie A matches against Cagliari (later a defeat), and have not conceded seven times. Chiesa, protagonist in Europe, is also in a good moment in the league: in his career he had never participated in 13 goals (7 goals and 6 assists) in the first 23 games of a single season. Andrea Pirlo must necessarily take advantage of his good vein and hope in Ronaldo’s spirit of revenge: of the 18 A stadiums in which he played, Sardegna Arena is the only one in which he has not yet scored a goal.

eye to the new cagliari

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The Sardinians, after the exoneration of Di Francesco and the arrival of Semplici on the bench, have turned: two victories in a row, in Crotone (2-0) and at home against Bologna (1-0), then the draw in extremis of Genoa against Sampdoria (2-2), thanks to Nainggolan’s goal in the sixth of stoppage, but after leading 1-0 less than a quarter of an hour to go. To get to four consecutive games without defeat, you have to go back to December 2019 (in that case there were 13). Since their return to Serie A (2016/17), Cagliari have scored just three goals in nine games with Juve, but won their last home match 2-0 last July: only between 1965 and 1966 is managed to obtain two successes in a row at home against the Juventus team: Simple will try to make this shot too.