On Sunday, January 22, in Turin, at the Allianz Stadium, the match of the nineteenth round of the Italian football championship will take place, in which Juventus Turin and Atalanta Bergamo will play. The starting whistle of the referee Livio Marinelli from Tivoli will sound at 21:45 Kyiv time.
Juventus
Turin Juventus in a disgusting, although not the worst way in recent years of its history, began the current campaign in the domestic arena, but later was able to return to the big championship race. At the same time, the defense of Massimiliano Allegri’s team, during an outstanding winning streak, managed to pass for the best in Serie A. It continued to have such a status until the ill-fated confrontation against Napoli on the road, in which the Old Signora received five goals in their own net, while since the beginning of the football year in the championship at that time she missed only seven (1:5).
This result made it clear that Juventus, in its state of transition, is not able to really qualify for the Scudetto, which allowed the team to somehow take the soul away from the loud defeat in the game against Monza in the Coppa Italia, the day after which the real one exploded in Turin info bomb. Minus 15 points, which is an impressive part of the team’s total production for the previous 18 matches played – this is the verdict of the Italian football authorities as a punishment for financial fraud. Juve have experienced harsher punishments in their history, but in the context of the current campaign, such an unexpected turn could become a full-fledged test shot in the head for an already troubled team.
Atalanta
Echoes of the Turin sensational news definitely reached neighboring Bergamo and definitely improved the mood of the local Atalanta, which slightly improved its own position in the standings due to the punishment for Juventus. The team of Gian Piero Gasperini this winter released the Ukrainian midfielder Ruslan Malinovsky to the French Marseille, so the attention of the fans of our country to this team will definitely decrease in the near future. And the conditions that the “Goddess” demonstrated during the first part of the season do not at all compare with what the team had at the time of signing Malinovsky.
Atalanta really continues to fight for places in European competitions, not wanting to repeat the negative experience of the absence of international matches of the current season’s model. The team from Bergamo is constantly actively scouring the market in search of new reinforcements for its starting lineup, but it seems that Gasperini is too carried away with the reforms, and now the results of his team are rather chaotic. To ship eight balls to Salernitana (8:2) or five to Spice (5:2), Atalanta is still quite capable, only its defense looks far from being the most reliable, which in matches against “big” opponents can cause a lot of trouble.
Estimated compositions
Juventus: Szczesny – Bremer, Bonucci, Danilo – Kostic, Rabiot, Locatelli, Faggioli, Cuadrado – Milik, Vlahovic.
“Atalanta”: Musso – Scalvini, Palomino, Toloi – Ruggieri, Pashalic, de Ron, Hatebur – Ederson – Hoylun, Lukman.
Not to play: Caio, Ihattaren, De Sciglio, Peters, Bonucci, Vlahovic, Pogba – Kopemeiners, Muratore.
Forecast for confrontation
We believe that in the upcoming game Juventus will try to cheer themselves up. Our bet will be the position – Juventus will not lose and TB 2.5 with a coefficient of 3.00 through the Parimatch line.
January 22, Sunday
“Juventus” – “Atalanta”
Turin. Juventus Stadium. 21:45 Live TV broadcast – MEGOGO video service
Arbitrator: Livio Marinelli (Tivoli, Italy) Forecast Aroged – 2:1
