Juventus 1 - Hellas Verona 1: Initial reaction and random observations

Juventus 1 – Hellas Verona 1: Initial reaction and random observations

At factors of the second half on Saturday night, there was an rising feeling that Juventus may not even come away with a single level throughout their annual go to to the Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi.

For all of the possession, for the entire time on the ball and for the entire benefit in passing that Juve had over the host Hellas Verona, it wasn’t the staff in bianconero regarded the extra prone to really win. It didn’t matter what number of attacking gamers Igor Tudor threw on because the second half went on, issues have been merely off and definitely nowhere near replicating what they’ve executed of their first two video games out of the September worldwide break.

Juventus have formally recorded their first irritating results of the 2025-26 season, a 1-1 draw with Hellas Verona by which it might have simply been all three factors dropped and a primary loss on the document of Igor Tudor’s squad. It was the form of efficiency befitting of a staff that has expended a lot power over these earlier two video games by which wild late-game comebacks have been wanted to get the win over Inter Milan and a draw with Borussia Dortmund, respectively. However finally, Juventus’ ineffectiveness and sub-par efficiency for a lot of Saturday’s journey to Verona doomed them as they dropped factors for the primary time domestically.

And in some methods, you are feeling like Juventus received fortunate to get some extent on this one due to how they performed.

It wasn’t displaying. There weren’t the form of highs that we noticed within the win over Inter and the high-scoring draw with Dortmund. Juventus could have had 72% of the possession and greater than doubled up Hellas Verona by way of passes accomplished, however the Bianconeri ended up getting out-shot by the house facet, 14-10. For the second consecutive sport by which he began towards a home opponent, Dusan Vlahovic was extraordinarily remoted and a digital non-factor outdoors of a few transient moments. The midfield misplaced so many passes you in all probability misplaced depend even earlier than halftime. The protection, taking part in their first sport of the season with out the resting Gleison Bremer, regarded removed from the robust unit that Juve was towards their first two provincial opponents this season.

With all of that possession Juve had, they completed with a grand complete of 0.38 xG. That’s not good — in any respect.

In fact, of their earlier two video games through the previous week, they have been scoring objectives that appeared near-impossible after they have been about to hit the again of the online. Even Francisco Conceição’s opener within the nineteenth was removed from an xG monster. However in these two video games, they have been additionally creating scoring possibilities to allow themselves to truly get extra than simply the primary aim.

They barely did that towards Hellas Verona.

Positive, Hellas performed nicely and proved to be a greater performer than what their desk place coming into the weekend was. But it surely’s not possible to flee simply how a lot Juventus struggled to do sufficient to win in a matchup that they shouldn’t normally be dropping factors in regardless of how tough a go to to the Bentegodi might be.

Due to it, Tudor can’t stake declare to what different Juventus managers like Giovanni Trapattoni, Marcello Lippi, Antonio Conte and Max Allegri have all executed of their first (full) seasons as supervisor — win their first 4 video games of a brand new season. Juve should still be unbeaten this season, however this one looks like a reasonably decently sized letdown regardless of how predictable it was a number of hours earlier than kickoff.