07/26/2020 - 13:31
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Juventus hosts Sampdoria in search of the win that allows take the title for the ninth time in Serie A in Italy , a figure with which he extended his own record in Europe.
On the other side will be an opponent who needs just one point out of the nine that remain in play to avoid relegation without depending on other people's results.
The match, which closes on the 36th date of the Italian league, will be played at 4:45 p.m. (Argentine time) at the Allianz Stadium with live and live television from ESPN 2 (channels 103 of Cablevisión and 623 of DirecTV) .
An image that has gone five entire matches without seeing each other: Dybala accumulates 537 minutes without converting goals. (EFE)
Juventus wasted last Thursday the first concrete opportunity to become champion when he lost 2 to 1 on his visit to Udinese, in Friuli, a worrying defeat not so much on the way to the scudetto but for the poor performance shown by the Turin team, facing the other great goal that lies ahead of the season, the Champions League.
La Vecchia Signora, with 80 points, to win will reach 83, a figure impossible to reach for the three teams behind them on the two dates that will remain to be played: Inter (with his victory against Genoa reached 76), Atalanta (at equaling against Milan remained at 75) and Lazio (before this date it has 72 units, and with nine to play it could achieve 81).
The Turin team's streak reached eight consecutive Scudetto last season, a figure that equates it with Bayern Munich in Germany, winner of the Bundesliga between 2012-13 and 2019-20.
Cristiano Ronaldo will seek to lead Juventus to his ninth consecutive Scudetto. (Photo: EFE / EPA / GABRIELE MENIS).
If crowned, Juventus will go back to command alone in the major European leagues because no other team has achieved nine consecutive conquests . It would also be the 35th scudetto in the history of the black and white club, which will continue to expand this record domestically. Milan and Inter follow with 18 each.
Of these eight previous titles, he won the first three with Antonio Conte as coach (2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14) and the other five with Massimiliano Allegri (who had already achieved the 2010-11 head of Milan). , the last champion before Juve's streak.
In this way, it will also be the first league conquest of coach Maurizio Sarri, who only accredits a title in the Europa League, in 2019, managing Chelsea.
Maurizio Sarri (here he celebrates with Ronaldo) goes for his first league title. (DPA)
In addition, Cristiano Ronaldo will seek to win the goalscorer's title in Italy for the first time, in a hand-to-hand fight that he has with Ciro Immobile, from Lazio, who has a somewhat advantage, 32 against 31.
In his initial season at Juventus, CR7 reached 21 goals and was fourth on the cappocannonieri's payroll , behind Italy's Fabio Quagliarella (26), Colombia's Duván Zapata (23) and Poland's Krzysztof Piątek (22).
In the resumption of Series A after the confinement for the coronavirus pandemic had been lifted, Juve had four consecutive victories that allowed him to make differences at the top, and therefore could not be reached by his pursuers in the negative streak that came later. , in which he got just five of the fifteen points contested and played at a low level .
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Inconsistent and less solid defensively than usual, Maurizio Sarri's team is far from convincing since the resumption of the Italian championship. The context is worrying two weeks after the return of their Champions League round of 16 match against Lyon , in which they must overcome a 0-1 win in the first leg played in France.
Sarri will once again trust trident Cristiano Ronaldo, Paulo Dybala and Federico Bernardeschi , who enters for the injured Douglas Costa. In addition, Leonardo Bonucci will return to the defense after having met the suspension date for accumulation of yellow.
The technician had to define whether to restore confidence to Bosnian Miralem Pjanic, who has decreased in performance since his transfer to Barcelona was confirmed. Who seems immovable in midfield is the Uruguayan former Boca Juniors Rodrigo Bentancur.
Sampdoria , with 41 units, has virtually confirmed his stay in Serie A, for which he needs just one point if he does not want to depend on other results.
Claudio Ranieri is almost safe from relegation to Sampdoria. (Reuters)
The Genoese team comes from losing in the city classic against Genoa, which also struggles for permanence and is even more committed in the standings (36).
Coach Claudio Ranieri does not have the suspended Omar Colley and Ronaldo Vieira at his disposal, nor the injured Albin Ekdal. In attack, the pair would be Manolo Gabbiadini and Fabio Quagliarella, while Argentine Gonzalo Maroni (whose pass belongs to Boca) should wait on the bench for substitutes .
Possible formations
Juventus : Wojciech Szczesny; Juan Cuadrado, Leonardo Bonucci, Matthijs De Light, Alex Sandro; Rodrigo Bentancur, Miralem Pjanic, Adrien Rabiot; Federico Bernardeschi, Paulo Dybala and Cristiano Ronaldo. DT : Maurizio Sarri.
Sampdoria : Emil Audero; Bartosz Berezinsky, Maya Yoshida, Julian Chabot, Tomasso Augello; Fabio Depaoli, Morten Thorsby, Karol Linetti, Jakub Jankto; Fabio Quagliarella and Manolo Gabbiadini. DT : Claudio Ranieri.
Hours : 4:45 p.m. (Argentine time).
TV : ESPN 2.
Stadium : Allianz Stadium.
Referee : Francesco Fourneau.