Serie A, Turin-Juventus derby –

A complicated derby, like never before. Turin and Juventus need to win, but also to understand. To understand if in the final rush of the championship they will be able to give a turn to a complicated season. We are not used to a Juve that frantically chases the opponents that precede them in the standings; the Bull who gives comforting signs of a turning point and then returns to the abyss inside his own problems makes us reflect on his real potential for salvation. Both teams have something to be forgiven: in the last match before the break for the national teams, Pirlo’s team surprisingly lost at home to Benevento (1-0), definitively abandoning any hope of being able to get back in the running for the Scudetto. , while Nicola’s grenades were beaten (1-0) by Sampdoria in Marassi without making a shot in the face of the goal, but only producing a lot of pressure until the trocar. And on Saturday there is the derby, to redeem himself. In the first leg the Bianconeri won 2-1, but the Turin coached by Marco Giampaolo at the time had immediately taken the lead with NKoulou in the 9th minute and for over an hour had given the impression of being able to win. Instead, in the final, Juve came out of arrogance, who first drew with McKennie (77 ‘) and one minute from the end found the winning goal with Bonucci.

THE NUMBERS

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Considering the last 215 games played by Juve in Serie A, only once did they lose two games in a row, against Cagliari and Rome with Sarri on the bench. Toro, on the other hand, has only won one of the last 29 derbies (2-1 in April 2015), then Juventus dominated with 22 wins and 6 draws. Furthermore, in the last 19 matches against the grenades, Juve have always scored: they ran out of steam for the last time in February 2008, 0-0 with Claudio Ranieri on the bench in the season of the Bianconeri’s return to Serie A. On the grenade field, Juve have won 10 of their last 11 games, keeping clean sheets eight times. For the first time, the Juventus team could win six away matches in a row against Torino. The overall balance of the derby sees 89 victories for Juve, 56 for Toro and 56 draws.

THE PLAYERS

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Andrea Belotti, a grenade striker, has scored 3 goals in 13 derbies with Juve in Serie A. But of the 23 teams that the grenade bomber has faced more than twice in Serie A in his career, the Bianconeri are the only ones not has ever beaten in the league (2 draws and 11 defeats). Simone Zaza scored 2 goals at Juve, but in 2014 when he wore the Sassuolo shirt. And Cristiano Ronaldo? There is a curiosity: in the derby, in July 2020, he scored his only free-kick goal with the Juventus shirt in all competitions (and he tried 72 times).