In the afternoon test, the Serbian and French looked good. And the call-up should finally arrive for Monza on Sunday
Green light: Vlahovic and Pogba are ready to earn the first call-up of 2023, like De Sciglio and Cuadrado. They all underwent a 50-minute test with the Next Gen, in fact the last general rehearsal to measure their condition and make an appointment for Sunday against Monza. The Serbian forward (on goal three times, once on an assist from the Frenchman) will find the field again after a period of therapy necessary to remove the pubalgia inflammation that also affected him at the World Cup, for the midfielder (author of two goals) it will instead be the very first time among the enlistables since he returned to Turin last summer. The other two wingers will instead make the emergency return to the right wing, where Allegri has tried to resolve in recent weeks – and not always with good results – with buffer solutions, from Chiesa to McKennie.
THE MORNING AT CONTINASSA
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Trials of 4-3-3 during the morning training session at the Continassa stadium, which was attended by journalists and a hundred fans affiliated with the official clubs. Bonucci is also on the pitch, but he won’t be available for Monza yet: he’s working towards the away match in Salerno next week. The tactical system, for which the squad was built last summer, allows Chiesa and Di Maria to coexist, supporting the center forward even in the event of a 3-4-2-1, the other arrangement tested during the training match in small field. Absent Rugani, kept at rest. Riccio and Huijsen joined, no longer new faces at Continassa even if under the second team. The attention of the fans was also directed towards McKennie, who would seem to be in the last hours in black and white due to the negotiations that Juve and Leeds are carrying out for his immediate passage to the Premier League.
TOWARDS MONZA
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Do you already change form with Monza? Not certain, but certainly conceivable. In today’s tests at Continassa Allegri added Gatti to the Brazilian defenders, among other things always present in all the matches in which Juve faced Monza this year. Danilo and Alex Sandro thus acted as full-backs, alternating in the possession phase in participating in the development of the action on the midfield line. In three in the middle: Rabiot, Paredes and Fagioli; while Kean was the central reference with Chiesa on the left and Di Maria on the right. Milik asserted himself on the opposite front, a training segment with the team A tank top was also done by Iling and later Kostic. Allegri observed as attentively as his collaborators on the technical staff: in the next few days we will need to clear our heads to find the right place not only for the championship but also for the Italian Cup and Europa League.
January 26 – 17:19
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