February?s Monthly Juventus Thoughts: Broken Defense
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In sharp contrast to the spectacular month of January, February was an absolute disaster. Juventus, and Italian football in general, has always been known for its solid defense. The foundation of a title-winning team is built on clean sheets and not giving away many (dangerous) chances. Defense first; everything else comes later.
This season, Juventus has been very good at defending and remains the second-best defense in the league. But February was a month in which we saw an alarming decline in the one thing Juventus has been so good at. Remarkably, 31% (6/19) of the total goals conceded in the league this season came in February.
With only one victory in four games to talk about, let?s see where it all went wrong over the past month. Not great, Bob!
We kicked off February with an absolute must-win game against Inter. As we discussed during the preview, it has been a long time since we?ve truly had to win a game at all costs, and this was one such game. Lose and the title race was, especially based on Inter?s relentless form, effectively over.
And lose we did.
While the Bianconeri did well to make the game a tight contest, Inter was a class above and controlled the game comfortably. Even though Inter won by only one goal ? an unfortunate Federico Gatti own goal that Marcus Thuram likely would have scored anyway ? they could and probably should have scored more. We have Wojciech Szczesny to thank for two stunnin...
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