This weekend we the derby of the Mole, first it’s Juve to host Torino. Juve can make the 25th straight home win to be honest how sweet will that be if so the case, no better victory than a derby win.
But Juve will have to be very careful as a derby will bring the best out of any team, Juve are under more pressure than the hosts as no one would give the guests a chance whiles the hosts are expected to win.
The last five league games the bianconeri have won 4 and lost 1 (away to Genoa) whiles on the other note Torino have won 1 (Parma 1-0) drawn 1 (Atalanta 0-0), the last 10 encounters between the two (home and away) Juve scored 16 goals and conceded a total of zero goals.
Home record so far this season reads played 5 won 5 scored 17 and only conceded 2, whiles the guests played 5 with 1 win and 4 defeats found the net 4 tines but conceded 10. One player Juve will have to look for is Quagliarella as he would know better how to beat the Juve defense who by the way are short of two Barzagli and Caceres. Also out is on form Kwadwo Asamoah, the Ghanaian scheduled to undergo and arthroscopic procedure on a knee injury next week.
Allegri will probably be fielding 4-3-1-2 formation the front attacking trio being Pogba – Tevez and Llorente leaving the likes of Giovinco, Pirlo and Morata on the bench. With Torino they have a couple of players out their top scorer is none other than Quagliarella with 4 then a group of players on 1 each. Kick-off is 17.00.
Roma can stand back and watch the game as they host Inter in the late Sunday evening game by then they would know what is happening still chasing Juve.
The weekend opens with in form Sassuolo hosting out of form Verona, since they held Juve to a draw Sassuolo found form with 3 wins and two draws in the last 5 games as Verona have only managed three draws in their last five. The late Saturday game sees Chievo host Lazio, Chievo are currently struggling at the wrong end of the league but their guests are not faring better in the results department as they suffered two consecutive defeats.
On Sunday there is no lunch time game the rest kick off at 14.00. Milan host Udinese both teams are knocking on the Europa door both teams are 18 points both teams are struggling to win a game, Cagliari host Fiorentina the hosts are just above the drop zone and their guests are another team who cannot put two wins together, Empoli host Genoa the hosts are on a two win run whiles Genoa are on a two draw run again another game difficult to call and finally Palermo host Parma the hosts are starting to find their feet in Seria A whiles Parma have forgotten how to win and are beginning to drift away at the bottom.