Not quite in a crisis but a long way from success, Juve’s squad have taken the wrong road, on and off the pitch
Massimiliano Allegri could only find one explanation for Juventus’s 2-1 defeat to Napoli. “Football was invented by the devil,” he said. “A badly-struck penalty but the ball winds up in the net, then [Daniele] Rugani misses from two metres out at the other end.”
Long-time observers had heard this turn of phrase before; the devil is one of Allegri’s go-to scapegoats. On a weekend that began with Lazio receiving three red cards in a brutally bad-tempered defeat to Milan, it made a refreshing change from talking about referees.
Continue reading…Not quite in a crisis but a long way from success, Juve’s squad have taken the wrong road, on and off the pitchMassimiliano Allegri could only find one explanation for Juventus’s 2-1 defeat to Napoli. “Football was invented by the devil,” he said. “A badly-struck penalty but the ball winds up in the net, then [Daniele] Rugani misses from two metres out at the other end.”Long-time observers had heard this turn of phrase before; the devil is one of Allegri’s go-to scapegoats. On a weekend that began with Lazio receiving three red cards in a brutally bad-tempered defeat to Milan, it made a refreshing change from talking about referees. Continue reading…
