Juventus will face a great test this Saturday as they will be without up to five key players, due to injury or suspension, for the match in Turin against Lazio, a team with whom they are tied for third place in the Serie A. A, three points behind leaders Naples.
The Italian-Brazilian Thiago Motta He has a problem in front of him in the Juve infirmary. The Dutch Teun Koopmeiners, the american Weston McKenniethe Argentine Nico Gonzalez and the Brazilian Gleison Bremer, He is out for the rest of the season with a serious knee injury. And, if that wasn’t enough, the Portuguese Francisco Conceicao, González’s substitute, was punished. Furthermore, the Polish striker Arkadyuz Milik He is yet to make his debut this season after undergoing yet another operation for a meniscus injury
Lazio, Stuttgart and Inter
Five important casualties that made the rivalry against Lazio one of the most relevant for Juve to date, the first in addition to a series of three consecutive games at the highest level, because on Tuesday the 22nd will face they Stuttgart in the Champions League and on Sunday the 27th against Inter again in Serie A, although for those two games they can make up for a good part of their absences.
The spare parts
Against Lazio, at home, they will have to ease the losses with less common players. The Italian Nicolò Fagioli will be the playmaker in the position of Koopmeinersribs affected; the young Belgian Samuel Mbangulawho played the first few days, will be the starting winger for Nico González, with a muscle injury; the italian Federico Gatti and the french Pierre Kalulu They will be the center backs after a serious injury of Bremer, out until the next campaign; and the gaul Khephren Thuram will generate starting insurance in the middle of the field in the absence of McKennie, who came back ‘touched’ from the United States team.
The match against Lazio is very important for both teams in the tight start of the campaign in Serie A. Between the first and the eleventh there are only 6 points. Lazio and Juve are tied on 13 points in the Champions League, so the defeat removes them from the lead in the race where Naples, currently, has 16. Inter are second with 14 points.
In addition, Juve wants to achieve 4 draws in the last five games. Of course, this is the team with the best level of defense at the moment, because it has scored only one goal in the domestic championship and it was in the last match against Cagliari (1-1), and it is also the only one that has not experienced any loss in 7 days played.
Source: La Verdad
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