The Old Lady Speaks Podcast, Episode 226: Juve improve, but still can’t get past Milan

The last three months have not been easy by any means. Poor results, even worse performances and a whole lot of dropped points along the way over the last three months like you would sprinkle breadcrumbs or something else on the ground to try and find your way back to where it all started.

Saturday’s scoreless draw was the latest batch of crumbs to be dropped along this now 13-game stretch of the season in which Juventus campaign has gone from potential title contention to now hanging on to a Champions League spot by a few threads. The performance was improved, sure, but the fact that Juventus dropped points again even though Milan were very much shorthanded just highlighted some of this team’s biggest issues that have hampered them over these last three months (and furhter back than that).

So on and on it goes. When it will stop, we actually do know — and that’s because the 2023-24 season finale is less than a month away.

On Episode 226 of The Old Lady Speaks Podcast, we discuss:

• Takeaways from Juventus’ scoreless draw on Saturday — including how the Bianconeri showed again that they are capable of playing a different style of football like they did in the second half against Milan, how we all are left wondering why it took until the second half to put a very shorthanded and makeshift Milan defense under serious pressure.
• Thoughts on Juve’s draw with Milan. It wasn’t that bad, was it?
• Max Allegri changed things up and got them mostly right in the second half, but why can’t we have those nice things more often?
• What needs to happen for Juventus to not miss out on the Champions League next season?
• Twitter questions — including which players we’re excited to see come back form loan, why we’ve barely heard from Juventus’ board of directors lately, if Federico Chiesa is worth the potential pay raise he wants with his new contract, if there’s any chance of Juve bringing Max Allegri back for next season due to financial reasons, and what about Allegri winning fewer trophies than Juve’s two previous managers although he’s been in Turin for three years.

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