Juventus Lift Coppa Italia But The Fireworks Were Not A Celebration

Simply three days after making certain the membership will play within the UEFA
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Champions League for subsequent season, Juventus lifted the Coppa Italia however the last whistle appeared to spark anger as a lot as celebrations for these linked to the Bianconeri.

The Turin Giants began the sport brightly, Dušan Vlahović netting in simply the fourth minute of the sport at Rome’s Stadio Olimpico after he latched on to an Andrea Cambiaso via ball and fired previous the Atalanta goalkeeper.

From there Juve delivered considered one of their greatest performances of the season – an admittedly low bar – and had additional possibilities to increase their lead. These included one other effort from Vlahović that was finally dominated out by VAR, whereas the striker had a robust penalty enchantment ignored by the officers.

As they so typically have in current seasons, Atalanta threw warning to the wind and created numerous alternatives to equalise, solely to discover a resolute Juve backline – led by the spectacular Gleison Bremer – standing of their path.

Certainly, the Brazilian defender ensured that ‘keeper Mattia Perin solely needed to make one save over the 90+ minutes of motion, making numerous essential interventions to repeatedly deny Gian Piero Gasperini’s males.

But as full time drew close to, Max Allegri misplaced the plot. Seemingly enraged by a foul on Danilo, the Juve boss ripped off his jacket and tie in dramatic style, yelling on the fourth official and others after he was inevitably despatched off.

That left the Bianconeri with out him for the ultimate six minutes, an nearly unforgivable act given the finely poised nature of the sport and the actual fact it might fairly simply have gone to Further Time and even a penalty shootout had Atalanta scored.

Allegri got here again onto the sector when the sport did come to an finish however, after embracing numerous gamers, it appeared as if he was saying “out, out” and gesturing for membership director Cristiano Giuntoli to go away.

“Nothing occurred, I used to be celebrating with the group and the gamers,” Allegri advised Sport Mediaset shortly afterwards. “I respect the membership, I respect the lads and had no drawback with anybody. I simply needed to have fun with the lads, who had a rare marketing campaign.”

Rumours persist that Juve will substitute Allegri with Bologna Coach Thiago Motta in the summertime, and when requested about that state of affairs earlier than the sport, Giuntoli did little to quieten the gossip.

“It’s an emotional night, the crowning second in an vital 12 months,” he advised reporters. “We’re not fascinated with the switch market but. Clearly, there are lots of competitions subsequent season, we nonetheless want to debate the state of affairs with the coach, the others, so there’s time for that.”

It was the same story with star man Federico Chiesa, who admitted he’s speaking with Juve a couple of new contract however refused to again Allegri, amid stories that the 2 have had numerous disagreements this time period.

“I’ve spoken concerning the renewal with the director and we’ll discuss it on the finish of the season,” stated Chiesa. “We’ll sit down calmly, talk about our tasks, and proceed speaking. I need to keep at this large membership and convey Juventus again the place it belongs.”

But when requested concerning the potential sacking of Allegri, all he would say was “these are evaluations the membership should make, you could ask them.”

With simply two video games remaining in Serie A, the reply is more likely to be revealed pretty quickly.