Juve, what happened in the derby intermission and CR7’s 5 balls

Dear friends and dear friends of Tuttosport,

What happened in the locker room of the Juventus between the first and second half of the derby could become an epic interlude in the narrative of the Juventus harvest, transforming that interval into fifteen most important minutes of the season. It is too early to say, but the clash between the players between the horrendous first forty-five minutes of the match against Torino and the second raptors and winners generated another legendary page. Because as things go from now to May, the 3-0 cut to Barcelona in its stage it will remain in remember of millions of fans that one Juventus so bright, aggressive and winning they hadn’t seen her in a while.

But then, what they said in the middle of the derby last Saturday? Everyone can imagine the dialogues, but the concept was: “It can be lost or tied up, but not in this way. We are Juventus, the team that has won the last nine championships, wearing this shirt does not automatically mean winning, but requires the maximum commitment of all. Juventus cannot play so smoothly, without the basic competitive spirit and the desire to win. “. Changing the Bonipertian motto could be summarized as “Winning is not important, the desire to win is the only thing that matters”. If they have said it or, rather, some senator has said it to the others and the team has perceived it. At that point two things could happen: the game could continue on the boring tracks of the first half and that harangue would quickly fade, wrinkled in the collective consciousness of the team like an old newspaper; or the game could change, the result would overturn and the victory would have enveloped that speech of charisma, transforming new costume law tables. So it was and Juventus, the young Juventus of the young Pirlo, learned a fundamental lesson on the field of play: you have to be united, wrong and focused. Everything else, the tactics, the technique, the schemes, come later. They are important, but they come later.

Thus was bornCamp Nou print, the grumpy Juventus that from the first second bit Barcelona’s ankles, a team in crisis, true, but intimidated and scared by the stormy approach of the Bianconeri. In fact, it is a merit to be able to take advantage of the insecurities of others: by letting Barça out on the pitch, even in the first 5/10 minutes, Pirlo’s team would have offered Koeman’s team an invigorating tonic for the spirit, while the The systematization with which the attack was carried out filled the Blaugrana night with ghosts, deceiving them. How many times has Juventus found itself on the other side of Europe?

Now it’s too early to say that everything will end in triumph. The perfect ninety minutes of the Camp Nou are foundations of the skyscraper by engineer PirloYou have to build several floors and then the roof, however yesterday’s are the most solid and impressive foundations that Juventus could lay. And the measure is all in one number: 5 and it is not the shirt of the positive Arthur, but the balls recovered by Cristiano Ronaldo during the match. by CR7 is an exorbitant number (practically a record), because Cristiano has never, with good reason, considered his duty to snatch the ball from his opponents. But if Ronaldo feels obliged to participate in the defensive phase and do that spectacular Lionel Messi recovery in ’81 ‘with 3-0 for Juventus, running to their own penalty area and blowing the ball to the rival with a maneuver worthy of the best Barzagli, so it means that something has ignited in the team mentality. If he does not come out (and it could already happen on Sunday against Genoa, it will be very insidious from a mental point of view), the Pirlo’s Juventus can go anywhere almost.