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Another important game has arrived on the schedule ? which will be a pretty consistent theme the rest of the 2023-24 season. We are closing in on the portion of the Serie A schedule were you only need a set of hands to count how many games remain. As we sit in the second weekend of March, Juventus have 11 league fixtures remaining. And of those 11, it?s not like a lot of them are against the level of competition in which much of January and February had on the docket.

That means, no matter what form Juve are currently in, there?s virtually important matchups from here on out until April showers turn into May flowers.
We saw it last weekend in Naples ? which didn?t end all that well on a multitude of levels. And we?re about to see it again this weekend as Juventus return home to the Allianz Stadium hoping that a little home cookin? will be the thing that hopefully gets them back on the right track when they face Atalanta on Sunday evening. They will, however, have to do it without their leading goal scorer since Dusan Vlahovic is suspended due to yellow card accumulation as well as the ongoing numbers crunch in midfield, even though it?s alleviated slightly with the return of one of Juve?s two injured starting midfielders. Regardless of who actually is available and who isn?t, the last six games Max Allegri?s squad has played have not been very good at all. Like, the kind of one-win...