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Rest" Ha, there?s no such thing as rest when you?re in the middle of a stretch with seven games in 22 days. It happens every single season, folks. There?s that point where you wonder, probably for the first time all season long, where the time has gone. When Juventus walk off the Allianz Stadium field Wednesday night, a quarter of the Serie A season will officially be a thing of the past. Two months gone just like that, which has still seen a whole lot of games packed into the schedule now that Juve?s back in Europe once again.

Matchday 9 was certainly quite the whirlwind for Thiago Motta and Juventus, with a Derby d?Italia result that surely no one of us will forget about for a long, long time. But the thing about this season?s schedule ? and especially this stretch of games between the October and November international breaks ? is that there?s no time to rest. At all.
That meant just a few short hours after the 4-4 draw with Inter at the San Siro, Motta?s squad was back on the field preparing for Parma?s visit to Turin on Wednesday night. Three days after facing the reigning Serie A champions, they?re now about to face a squad in Parma that is back in Italy?s top flight for the first time since 2021. Their return to Serie A hasn?t exactly gone all that great so far, with Juve going from facing an Inter team that had won five straight games in all competitions to a Parma tea...