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Juventus had been relegated in the 2006-07 season and it was their first season in Serie B. Since then, they took over the Italian League by thunder and have won 7 Serie A titles along with playing brilliant football at the UEFA Champions League.
The Italian giants have won 1 UCL title in their history, but recently they managed to reach the finals on 2 occasions in the past 4 years only to be beaten by FC Barcelona and Real Madrid respectively.
The current Serie A champions have won 7 consecutive Serie A titles and are playing exceptional football in the past few years. The Italian club owned by the Agnelli family, shocked everyone during this transfer window as they landed the current UCL,UEFA Euro, Ballon D’or winner Cristiano Ronaldo in Turin on a four-year deal, handing him a contract of 30 million Euros per year.
Juventus looked in top form offensively as they managed to score a whopping 86 goals, which is 9 more than what the second-placed Napoli scored in 38 games in Serie A 17-18. Apart from firing cylinders offensively, Juve were also well-organized in terms of their defence because they only let 24 goals being scored against them. These were the least number of goals conceded by a team in Serie A and second amongst top 5 European leagues, only behind Atletico who conceded 22.
Juventus look all set for the upcoming season as the club has signed Emre Can from Liverpool to strengthen their midfield and the best player in the world, Cristiano Ronaldo, who guarantees to score 50+ goals per season, regardless of his age.
Let’s look at the 3 reasons why Juventus would be unstoppable this season:
#3 Well Composed Midfield
With the current Juventus squad, it is obvious that manager Allegri would like to play a 4-2-3-1 formation, with Dybala playing as a number 10. The inclusion of Emre Can from Liverpool ensures that with Pjanic and Emre Can together, they can make key passes to unlock any defence and create goal-scoring opportunities for the forward.
Can is defensively strong, but picks up too many cards. As we all have already seen that Pjanic, despite being a central midfielder, plays like a defensive midfielder guarding the defensive line, but is also a threat in the attacking build-up and can score from long ranges when needed.
Emre Can and Pjanic together would supply in the attacks and would also help in the defence. That’s more of a complete composed midfield, which Juve really requires at the moment as they already have powerful attacking options upfront.
#2 Rock Solid Defence
Juventus is a club who had been known for its defence lately, and expectations from them are high once again. Juventus looks to organize a brilliant defensive line once again as the potential defensive back-four for the season comprises Alex Sandro, Chiellini, Mehdi Benatia and Santiago Arias.
Also, there are growing speculations about the departure of Sandro and arrival of Marcelo from Real Madrid, who reportedly told Florentino Perez that if Cristiano Ronaldo leaves the club, he would follow him.
Juventus conceded only 24 goals in the Serie A 2017-18 season. And keeping up their traditionally brilliant form over the years, they would still be the best defence in top 5 European leagues, competing with Atletico Madrid.
Looking at the abilities of the Juventus back-four, it is quite obvious that once again, it would be a tough task to break the Italian giant’s defence, which looks more powerful now with the addition of Emre Can, who would be supporting them defensively.
#1 Attacking options surrounding Cristiano Ronaldo
The Turin-based club surprised the world football as they signed arguably the best player in the history of football, Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid. Ronaldo is a player, who was a part of almost 50 percent of the goals scored by Real Madrid in recent years.
Ronaldo plays exceptional football in UCL and had been the top scorer of the competition for a record 6 seasons running. Ronaldo’s presence in the Juventus attacking line-up would ensure that they would be scoring unimaginable number of goals in the approaching season.
D. Costa, Higuain, Dybala, Mandzukic and Cristiano Ronaldo are some scary options Juventus would be using to attack. With Dybala playing as a number 10, it would supply too many opportunities for Cristiano to score and he never fails to get on the score sheet.
Cristiano’s scoring ability, free kick threats, penalty kick perfection, aerial threat would just make Juventus unstoppable and they are now looking as the early favourites for the UCL title.
