Football: Juventus Turin and Maurizio Sarri, it's over

It's not even a surprise. The title of champion of Italy did not weigh heavily at the time of the balance sheet. The elimination in the Champions League is an affront to the old lady who decided this Saturday to dismiss her coach, Maurizio Sarri.

Beaten 1-0 in Lyon in March, Juventus was unable to reverse the trend on Friday (2-1 victory). A setback experienced as a fiasco which punctuates an overall insufficient season.

A year after leaving the quarter-finals, Juventus will watch Lisbon's "Final 8" from afar, but the elimination of this season is even more embarrassing than that of last year. It comes a round earlier and, without disrespecting OL, Italian observers do not see the same qualities as at Ajax Amsterdam last year and do not imagine any Lyon player leaving like De Jong or De Ligt in Barcelona or Juve for more than 70 million euros.

Recruited to add a touch of aesthetics to a team that always won but rarely seduced, Sarri missed his bet and did not make Allegri forget. The contract was not fulfilled, with a suffering collective game all season and, above all, declining results, with this early elimination in C1, two defeats in the Cup final and in the Supercup and a scudetto won at the end of the fingers at the end of a championship concluded at a pace of promoted overdue.

A lack of lucidity

After the match on Friday, Sarri spoke, in addition to the refereeing, of an "excellent match" and a hypothetical "classification of the C1", of which Juve would be "first or second with six wins, one draw and one defeat ”. So many statements interpreted Saturday by the media as a lack of lucidity, even as the unsuitability of a man in a context.

Not surprisingly, the transalpine media had anticipated the fate of the coach. “Sarri Out! ", Headlined Tuttosport, using the hashtag which on Twitter has accompanied the Tuscan technician all this season, hardly liked by Bianconeri supporters.

The Corriere dello Sport switched to French to say "Adieu Maurizio" and the Gazzetta headlined a "Black Night" and cited from its front page the names of Simone Inzaghi and Zinedine Zidane as possible successors, Mauricio Pochettino and Massimiliano Allegri being others. options.

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The post-match statements from Juventus president Andrea Agnelli confirmed the trend: “The record is bitter and bitter. It has been a very difficult season and we have had a superb result winning a ninth championship in a row. In the Champions League, however, it is disappointing. It is for us, for the players and for the tifosi. We are going to take our time and we are going to think about how to face the next season with renewed enthusiasm, which should allow us to always aim to win all the competitions in which we participate. "

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The Turin leader also recalled that the Champions League was no longer a dream but a goal and it was quite obvious that when he recruited Cristiano Ronaldo, the plan was not to pile up the scudetti and fall before the high altitude facing Ajax or OL.