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The last-gasp winner ended Juve?s four-game winless skid, but didn?t put questions of the team?s form to bed. Juventus? 2023-24 season has seen its fair share of last-gasp winners. Stoppage-time goals against Hellas Verona, Monza, and Salernitana have clinched key victories, and even Juve?s reverse fixture against Sunday?s lunchtime opponent, Frosinone, saw Juve win the game within the last 10 minutes.

On this day, Daniele Rugani made the latest entry on the chart of the cardiac kids, hitting a flicked corner first time under Frosinone keeper Michele Cerofolini with 21 seconds left in added time. The miracle winner, from the most unlikely of sources, ended Juventus? four-game winless run and picked up three critical points for a top-four race that has suddenly become a lot tighter. But those three points are about all Juventus should be happy about about Sunday?s game. (OK, also the performance of Dusan Vlahovic.) It was another shambolic performance against a relegation-threatened team. After a lightning-quick start, Juve spent the rest of the game?s first half hour being thoroughly dominated on their own pitch, coughing up that early lead and actually trailing for a short time before going into the half in a 2-2 tie. The team looked unfocused and, frankly, unprepared, and the second half didn?t go all that much better. Juve only really began to turn the screws on their visitors with 20 minutes to go, and the...