With a whimper, not a bang, we bid adieu to the 2025-26 iteration of Juventus. Only two weeks ago, this team had complete control of their own destiny. All they had to do was beat two teams that were no higher than 12th place in the league table and they could salvage their season with […]

It’s hard to describe just how disappointing the end of the 2025-26 season was. Between the pre-game controversy that led to an hour-long delay, the hammer of Juventus’ elimination from Champions League contention at halftime, or the blown 2-0 lead that led to a disappointing 2-2 Derby della Mole draw to end the season in […]

We all knew it would be unlikely that Juventus would get the necessary help they needed to make it into the Champions League on Sunday. But on a chaotic Matchday 38, the way Juventus’ European fate would be sealed would be unlike anyone expected it. Serious crowd trouble marred the season-ending Derby della Mole. After […]

It was all so simple. Now, it’s anything but. Juventus’ 2-0 loss to Fiorentina on Sunday afternoon was a choke-job, pure and simple. Facing a team that over the last month had recorded three draws — producing precisely one goal over those three games — and a 4-0 drubbing at the hands of Roma, the […]

Juventus’ job was clear. Win their final two games, both of which would see them enter as favorites, and they would be guaranteed Champions League football next season. On Sunday afternoon, against a Fiorentina team that was in the relegation spots for much of the season and hadn’t won a game in a month, they […]

Saturday’s game between Juventus and Lecce looked for all the world like it was going to be a thrashing. Dusan Vlahovic set a club record for quickest goal scored in a league match to put the team in the lead within 12 seconds, and in the next six minutes he nearly scored again and Francisco […]

The third-from-last game of the 2025-26 season was important for both Juventus and Lecce. Juve controlled their own destiny for Champions League qualification, needing to win all three of their remaining matches to guarantee a spot at Europe’s big table. Any slip-up, though, could see Roma, Como, or both get ahead of them in the […]

If it were easy, it wouldn’t be a Juventus season! Right after taking advantage of Como and Roma choking away fourth place in the Serie A table, Juventus had the inside track to stamp their ticket with an extremely soft schedule after a tough visit to Milan to play Max Allegri the Rossoneri. Regardless of […]

After a three-week block where Juventus racked up seven out of a possible nine points against their final (on paper) difficult stretch of the season, surely Juventus wouldn’t trip up on a trap game against a team that had been officially relegated earlier in the week. Right? RIGHT?!!? It was one of those games we’ve […]

Over the last month Juventus have, for once, had the favor of the football gods. The teams they’ve been competing with for Serie A’s final Champions League spot have hemorrhaged points in recent weeks, allowing a Juventus team that a month ago looked like they were all but beaten to head into the final four […]

Those who are still inclined to deride Italian football as too defensive probably look to Juventus and AC Milan as their top piece of evidence. Sunday’s game between the two Italian giants was the fourth goalless draw in their past five league matches. In a match between two old warhorses of the Italian coaching ranks, […]

Games between old hands like Luciano Spalletti and Massimiliano Allegri will always be highly tactical affairs. Of course, those tactics tend to be diametrically opposed. Between Spalletti’s attacking innovation and Allegri’s defend-at-all-costs approach, it’s always interesting to see how the two would work to get the advantage over each other. It’s been hard for Juventus […]

We are in the top four! They bottled it, the absolute chokers bottled it! We will never lose again! Now, we shouldn’t quite be stamping our brand new Juventus kits with the starred football logo of the Champions League just quite yet. Yes, the five-point gap to Como is a lot more comfortable that I […]

The weekend had set itself up perfectly for Juventus. Como had suffered a shock defeat at Sassuolo. Roma and Atalanta had drawn against each other. Napoli had lost. With a win over Bologna, Juve would take a five-point lead over their closest pursuers in the race for the Champions League. Win they did, holding Bologna […]

If you were at the Allianz Stadium on Sunday night, you’d be forgiven for running all over the emotional spectrum during your time in the building. That wasn’t because of Juventus. They rang up a 2-0 victory over a Bologna team that never really threatened to make the game interesting. It took full advantage of […]

Juventus pulled a fast one on us on Saturday. Usually the team that pays for poor finishing when on the front foot, this time the Bianconeri were the ones who performed the smash-and-grab. After weathering an Atalanta storm in the first half, an ugly goal by Jérémie Boga early in the second gave Juve a […]

It’s a tale that any Juventino/a could a thousand times over the last few years. The team dominates the flow of the game, but can’t cash in on any chances and eventually succumb to a smash-and-grab goal by their opponents that sees them drop points. Saturday night’s opponent, Atalanta, was one of the more recent […]

Juventus did their job against Genoa on Monday night. Their performance in the first half was incredible. Genoa were completely sealed into their own half, and the Bianconeri were up 2-0 before seventeen minutes were on the clock. They ought to have been up by a lot more, but poor finishing left some other excellent […]

When you’re the chasing team in the standings, it’s always good knowing what your quarry had done. When Como played out a goalless draw in Monday’s lunchtime kickoff against Udinese, Juventus knew they had a massive opportunity. If they beat Genoa, they would close to within a point of the upstarts from the lake, and […]

There’s no hurt quite like World Cup hurt. It probably has something to do with the periodicity of the world’s biggest football competition. You can’t shrug and say “Well, there’s always next year!” in the World Cup. A final defeat in the World Cup is four years of building expectations, qualifying process, thousands of small, […]

The onus is always on the chasing team when involved in a late-season race for table positioning. They need to keep winning games in order to put pressure on the team they’re pursuing, and any slip-ups can see the gap between the two teams widen at inopportune times. Juventus are in that unenviable position right […]

With Juventus chasing after fourth place as the Serie A season reaches the home stretch, they couldn’t afford too many slip-ups against teams that they should be beating. Unfortunately for the Bianconeri, their footing got a little less sure in the second half of Saturday night’s match against Sassuolo. Juve dominated the first half and […]

It was a must-win game on Saturday when Juventus visited Udinese. Well, they all feel like must wins in a race for the top four this late in the season, but this one more than most. With the two teams immediately ahead of them, Roma and Como, playing each other on Sunday, getting three points […]

Saturday night’s matchup between Juventus and Udinese was a critical one for the visitors. Coming into the day, Juve were in sixth place on 50 points, only a single point behind Roma and Como, their immediate competition for Italy’s final slot in next year’s Champions League. With the two teams ahead of them playing each […]

Here’s the thing about the current version of Juventus — at least they are not boring. Sure, when you catch them on a bad day and they will leak goals left and right. But sometimes, when they do, they have found the extra gear and chutzpah to always find a way to get back into […]

Usually, when you say a game was a story of two halves, one team or the other is on top of things before their opponents turn the tables in the second half. Saturday’s match between Juventus and Pisa was a slight modification of the usual trope. Juventus remained in control of the game for the […]

When you’re chasing in the standings, there are two stark realities: 1) you can only move up if you get help, and 2) even if you don’t get the help, you still have to win to stay in striking distance. So was the situation on Saturday night in Turin, when Juventus welcomed Pisa to the […]

All looked lost on Sunday night at the Stadio Olimpico. Down 3-1 to Roma with 25 minutes left, Juventus were staring at the prospect of a seven-point deficit for Serie A’s final Champions League spot with 11 matches left to play. But the Bianconeri dug deep once again, pulling out their second unexpected comeback in […]

Sunday night’s game between Juventus and Roma was a six-pointer in every sense of the word. A win for the Bianconeri would see them pull within one point of the capital club in the race for the fourth and final Champions League place. Lose, and they would fall seven points back with only 11 games […]

What a difference a couple of weeks makes, huh? Not that long ago, we were talking about the Luciano Spalletti-led Juventus looking like they were turning a corner. The team was scoring in bunches, playing fun football and finally showing glimpses of life. As we sit here in the final days of February now, Juventus […]