Juventus-Frosinone 2-2
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Juventus-Frosinone 2-2, Dušan Vlahović scores again in the 32nd minute.
Juventus-Frosinone 1-2, Marco Brescianini scores in the 27th minute.
Juventus-Frosinone 1-1, Walid Cheddira equalizes in the 14th minute.
Perfect cross from Zortea from the right, Cheddira passes into the area between four opponents and hits Szczesny with a header that is as strong as it is precise.
Juventus are too soft in this situation.
Juventus-Frosinone 1-0, goal by Dušan Vlahović in the 3rd minute
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Gatti's launch for the depth of McKennie, who stops great and slots it horizontally into the area for the Serbian striker.
Vlahovic does not betray with the inside right and scores his 75th goal in Serie A.
After a streak of 17 consecutive useful results, Juventus have lost two of their last three championship matches and are fresh from a draw (2-2) with Hellas Verona.
However, the Bianconeri have only been defeated once at home (0-1 by Udinese), compared to eight wins and three draws.
With 54 points in 25 days, the Lady has perhaps definitively seen her Scudetto dream come to an end.
Frosinone hasn't won for over a month: the 3-1 win over Cagliari dates back to January 21st and coincidentally that was also a Sunday lunch match at 12.30pm.
The yellow and blues are also fresh from three consecutive defeats and boast the worst away record in the entire Serie A: zero wins, three draws and nine defeats, with 10 goals scored and 30 conceded.
The formations
OFFICIAL LINEUPS: Juventus lines up with a 3-5-2 formed by Szczesny - Gatti, Bremer, Rugani - Cambiaso, McKennie, Locatelli, Rabiot, Kostic - Vlahovic, Chiesa.
All. Allegri.
Available: Pinsoglio, Daffara - Alex Sandro, Djaló - Miretti, Weah, Alcaraz, Nicolussi Caviglia, Nonge - Milik, Yildiz, Iling-Junior.
Mister Allegri has to deal with Danilo's injury and does not start Carlos Alcaraz from the first minute, as many expected.
In attack, teaming up with Dusan Vlahovic, is Federico Chiesa: thus disproving the hypothesis of an offensive trident, the usual 3-5-2 and Kenan Yildiz starting from the bench.
OFFICIAL LINEUPS: Frosinone responds with a 3-5-2 featuring Cerofolini - Romagnoli, Okoli, Lirola - Valeri, Brescianini, Mazzitelli, Harroui, Zortea - Soulé, Cheddira.
All. Di Francesco.
Available: Frattali, Turati - Monterisi - Barrenechea, Garritano, Gelli, Ibrahimovic, Reinier - Baez, Ghedjemis, Kaio Jorge, Kvernadze, Seck.
Mister Di Francesco opts for a mirror 3-5-2 in which he relaunches Walid Cheddira to pair up in attack with Matias Soulé.
In midfield the Brescianini-Mazzitelli duo is very confirmed, while the returning Nadir Zortea moves forward to play the winger in the five in the middle of the field.
The statements from the day before
Allegri tries to charge his team
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"In football there are these small periods, we have the objective of returning to winning against a Frosinone team who play well", says the Bianconeri coach commenting on the team's moment and the objective of regaining the three points after four games in a row in dry.
"We played three similar matches - he continues on the eve of tomorrow's lunch match - which were Bologna at home, in Sassuolo and in Verona: they were games split in two, fortunately we drew two. We are not for these games, we have to return to be more orderly and compact".
Eusebio Di Francesco shows the way to seek a positive result
: greater concreteness in front of goal and more attention in defence.
The objective is to break the negative streak of three defeats in a row.
Despite the difficult moment, the coach has not lost faith.
"We need to improve the defensive phase, find the aggressiveness that was missing against Roma in some episodes. I don't know if repeating Sunday's performance will be enough in Turin. The match will have to turn in our direction and a lot of cynicism will be needed. We knew we could go through periods complicated but I think anyone would have signed to now be at 23 points. Sooner or later something will have to come back to us because we deserve more than what we have collected"
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