Ivan Juric
Five games with a far from simple calendar and three points to recover and then do enough to close the championship in 8th place, which guarantees the ability to play in the play-offs to access the Conference League groups. Leaving aside all the discussions with multiple plots that could lead Italy to have even more places in European competitions. This is madnessas defined by Mister Juric, which separates Turin from the return to Europe. There are still 15 points up for grabs and the classificationwhich is of interest to the Granata, reads: 8th place Napoli with 49 points, 9th Fiorentina 47 and 10th Turin 46. It should be remembered that in case of finishing on equal points, Turin has the upper hand over Napolivictory in the first leg and draw in the return leg, and the worst with Fiorentinadefeat in the first leg and draw in the second leg and that the Viola have to recover the match against Atalantapostponed due to the serious illness which then led to the death of Joe Barone, general manager of Fiorentina, and it is not yet known when it will be played and it could happen even after the championship has already finished.
The Turin calendar it’s not easy we start on Sunday at lunchtime with the away match at the Meazza with theInter new champion of Italy. We continue with the Bologna at home on Friday 3 May in the evening with the Bolognese who are in 4th place, two points away from Juventus who are third, but are being chased by Roma, who yesterday in injury time in the final minutes against Udinese won two to one, who has 58 points; however, both teams maintaining their current position would go to the Champions League. Then the trip with the Veronawho are fighting to stay in Serie A and are 15th with 31 points, the same as Empoli and ahead of Udinese and Frosinone who have 28 points and Sassuolo who have 26. Followed at home with Milan who today are in 2nd place with Juventus 5 points behind them and who are in any case certain of going to the Champions League. And finally the trip to Bergamo withAtalanta which now occupies 6th place with 54 points, followed by Lazio at 52 while Napoli is 5 points further away and with Roma in front at 58, the Goddess still hopes to reach 5th place in order to go to the Champions League and Naples and Lazio to reach the Europa League. In the Italian Cup final, which guarantees whoever wins it access to the Europa League unless they get the pass to the Champions League by placing in the league, there are Atalanta and Juventus.
But it is not enough to consider Torino’s calendar as that of the competitors is also needed and the Florentine still has to face Sassuolo, Verona, Monza, Naples and Cagliari therefore it has a direct clash with Napoli and apart from the match with Monza, which has even less hope than Torino of going to Europe having 3 points less than the Granata, the others are with teams fighting to save themselves and on the last day Cagliari he may have already won a place in A. Il Naples instead he will have to deal with Rome, Udinese, Bologna, Fiorentina and Lecce so it has three clashes with opponents who are committed to conquering either the best possible place in Europe, Roma and Bologna, or access, Fiorentina, and a match with those whose objective is not to be relegated, Udinese, while with Lecce the Viola almost they will surely find the people of Salento safe given that today they have 35 points and it doesn’t take much for them to be sure of it.
For Torino, Europe is madness but, at the moment, not a utopia. Certainly a victory would be needed against Inter on Sunday perhaps taking advantage of the fact that the Nerazzurri are distracted by the many celebrations held and which will also be there after the match to win the Scudetto, number 20. By beating the Nerazzurri the granata would then have an important boost to face the following matches. For sure though Torino must believe in it and be determined when they take the field, not like they did against Frosinone, third from last in the standings, when they showed off a performance that wasn’t up to par and in fact didn’t go beyond a draw without a goal. The Granata’s 17 games without conceding a goal, only 29 in 33 matches complete with the 4th best defense in Serie A, are a Champions League performance but are at the same time an ephemeral boast given that for goals scored, 31 like those of Verona and Udinese, the Granata are like those who fight not to be relegated. And Inter, the first of the matches to make the madness a reality, is the team that has scored the most goals, 79, and the one that has conceded the fewest, 18.
