On Saturday morning, Juventus hosted Alessandria for a friendly encounter at the Continassa training ground.
The Bianconeri were naturally without the vast majority of their first team players who are currently away with their national teams during the current international break.
Moreover, Alvaro Morata and Paulo Dybala also did not take part against the recently-promoted Serie B side as they are still recovering from injuries they sustained against Sampdoria last month.
Max Allegri started with a 4-3-3 lineup, with Mattia Perin between the posts. Daniele Rugani lined up alongside Diego Stramaccioni in defense, while Mattia De Sciglio and Luca Pellegrini occupied the fullback slots.
Arthur returned to the action following months on the shelf, leading the midfield alongside Emanuele Zuelli and Tommaso Maressa. The attacking trio was made up by Matias Soulè, Marley Aké and Kaio Jorge.
Maressa opened the scoring for the Bianconeri with a wonderful goal in the first half, and the result remained the same almost until the end of the match.
But in the final minutes, Alessandria found the equalizer at the 90th minute, only for Juventus substitute Angel Chibozo to score the winner at the death, as the match ended 2-1.
According to ILBianconero, the Old Lady’s two young scorers were amongst the most impressive players on the pitch, alongside the vastly talented Soulè.
On the other hand, the Brazilian duo of Kaio and Arthur appeared to be short on fitness. The striker had very few touches on the ball, while the midfielder found little success with his vertical plays. Moreover, Pellegrini didn’t impress either as he continuously failed to deliver accurate crosses.
pellegrini was the driving force in our attacks, made many attemps and a shot.
he took the corners and one of them almost made rugani scores.
shule made 2 or 3 good try and suddenly became one of the impressive player? lol
rugani made a solid appearance and leads his younger team mates.
the goal from Alexandria made from corner, it’s not rugani or pinso faults as rugani marked his man the no.30 in the far post, but his CB patner left the goal scorer no.18 free to headed the ball.
the last juventus goal came from rugani long pass from the back. i don’t believe one bit that rugani didn’t deserve to be chiellini or bonucci backup this season.
arthur was missing in action. same with kaio jorge who only made 1 clear shot.
judging by how the midfields played, the level set by ranocchia, faglioli and luca clemenza still too far for this friendly match midfields.
but i hope to see more of miretti and max giving rugani, perin, pellegrini and de sciglio chances.
im not worry with juve midfields at all, so many amazing talents in the middle.
faglioli already made 2 assist and 1 goal, what about arthur melo? we should stop the habits of giving too much credits for foreign players.
the italian youngster from this generation is AWESOME.