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Rome wasn’t built in a day. Despite the Luciano Spalleti era starting with a well-deserved win over newly-promoted and plucky upstart Cremonese, Juventus stumbled back to their usual lackluster results with back-to-back draws against Sporting CP and the intercity Derby della Mole against Torino. The malaise following Igor Tudor’s firing wasn’t going to end in […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
Well, well, well. It’s Friday — and that means you’ve made it through another week. And the result of that is being just about halfway done with the November international break. You go another week, and then calcio is back. Maybe not in the same way that Fabio Capello said, but it is back rather […]
3 months ago | 1 read
One of the most notable things to come out of Damien Comolli’s first meeting with the Italian media after becoming Juventus’ new CEO was the revelation that the club and Dusan Vlahovic had come to an agreement to basically table all contract talks until after the 2025-26 season. This self-described “understanding” or “pact” as Comolli […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
One of the best things to come from the initial rush of national team call-ups was the simple fact that some of Juventus’ best players weren’t going to be out on international duty and would get the chance to work with new manager Luciano Spalletti for an extended amount of time before Juventus’ next game. […]
3 months ago | 1 read
Welcome back to the Zona Mista, everybody! It’s Thursday, so you know what that means … Well, other than some nonsense that’s about to follow, it’s also a very important game day for a certain former AC Milan midfielder who is now managing the Italian national team. So as Italy prepares to face Moldova in […]
3 months ago | 1 read
While they try and get things back on track domestically, Juventus Women headed to Spain for a showdown with Atlético Madrid on Wednesday night in the Women’s Champions League. Following the disappointing last-minute loss to Bayern Munich late last month, this was the chance for Max Canzi’s side to try and build some momentum to […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
After an unfortunately time injury right on the cusp of the start of the 2025-26 campaign, young Juventus midfielder Fabio Miretti is back in action after making his season debut in last week’s draw with Sporting CP in the Champions League. It was a return to wearing Juventus colors that had to be delayed for […]
3 months ago | 1 read
Hello, friends. It’s the Wednesday edition of the Zona Mista. And not only is it the official middle of the work week, but it’s also match day in the Women’s Champions League for Juventus Women, who have made the trip to Spain to face Atlético Madrid in a key league phase matchup. While we wait […]
3 months ago | 1 read
Tuesday brought the somewhat expected news that Damien Comolli, who has only been Juventus’ general manager since early June, has taken on a new and much more prominent role in Turin after being promoted to be the club’s new chief executive officer. With the promotion, Comolli will now have a footprint in just about every […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
In a short announcement released earlier today, Juventus announced that Damien Comolli’s role with the club has been greatly expanded. The Board of Directors of Juventus Football Club S.p.A. (“Juventus” or the “Company”), which met today under the chairmanship of Gianluca Ferrero, resolved, inter alia, on the appointment of corporate officers and the granting of […]
3 months ago | 1 read
It’s Tuesday and the Zona Mista rolls on. Doesn’t matter if it’s an international break or not, we’re back in the swing of things as Rino Gattuso heads into his second day of yelling at Italian national team players ahead of their big World Cup qualifiers later in the week. So what is there to […]
3 months ago | 1 read
One of the downfalls that led to Igor Tudor being sacked as Juventus’ manager two weeks ago was the simple fact that his team just wasn’t scoring goals. And, as you can probably figure out, the fewer goals you score, then the less likely you are to win games no matter if it’s domestically or […]
3 months ago | 1 read
It took all of one full week on the job for Luciano Spalletti to personally find out about the issues that have hampered Juventus over the last couple of seasons. You know, the reasons as to why there became a path for him to actually become manager of a team nobody really had thoughts about […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
It’s the beginning of a new work week, folks. It’s also the beginning of a new international break, with no club football on the schedule for the next 12 days or so. From Monday until Friday, we hopefully won’t have much going on when it comes to the club game. Which, a lot like the […]
3 months ago | 2 reads
The old line that every goalkeeper who plays against Juventus suddenly becomes some Titan-level mix of Lev Yashin and Gianluigi Buffon has gotten cliche over the years, but cliches often form around truth. And over the last week, it has been a deep truth. After watching Rui Silva reject shot after shot on Tuesday in […]
3 months ago | 1 read
OK, this is getting ridiculous. Just days after settling for a Champions League point against Sporting CP in large part because goalkeeper Rui Silva went absolutely bonkers and denied what looked to be certain goals, forcing them to settle for a draw, it was deja vu all over again for Juventus in Saturday’s first running […]
3 months ago | 3 reads
At some point, you feel like Juventus should be able to take advantage of the plethora of scoring chances they have created under Luciano Spalletti over the last eight days. The problem is, getting to that point has felt like pulling teeth rather than actually enjoying the fact that Juve are looking better in attack […]
3 months ago | 1 read
MATCH INFO When: Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025. Where: Allianz Stadium, Turin, Italy. Official kickoff time: 6 p.m. local time in Italy and across Europe, 5 p.m. in the United Kingdom, 12 p.m. Eastern time, 11 a.m. Central time, 9 a.m. Pacific time. STARTING LINEUPS Juventus starting XI (3-4-2-1/3-4-3): Di Gregorio; Kalulu, Rugani, Koopmeiners; McKennie, Locatelli (c), Thuram, Cambiaso; Conceicao, […]
3 months ago | 1 read
Once the final whistle sounds Saturday night at the Allianz Stadium, Luciano Spalletti will hopefully have a chance to breathe a little bit. He has been Juventus’ manager for all of a week now, but he’s about to manage his third game over that span because the schedule is unrelenting in the year 2025. And […]
3 months ago | 5 reads
Welcome to the Friday edition of the Zona Mista, everybody. Congrats — you’ve made it through another work week. And now, we’re just a day away from the first Turin derby of the 2025-26 season. So while we wait for things to go down at the Juve shareholders’ meeting, here are some news items. Away […]
3 months ago | 1 read
It’s time to tap the mic to make sure this thing is still on. Has anything happened since the last time we were able to find the time to drop a daily edition of the Zona Mista on you guys? (I check, but I’m pretty sure we all know the answer to that.) But now […]
3 months ago | 1 read
It is not breaking news that Juventus’ domestic and European campaigns have not exactly gone all that well through the first 2 1/2 months of the 2025-26 season. It is why Igor Tudor found himself out of a job two Mondays ago, thus resulting in the arrival of Luciano Spalletti and his much more accomplished […]
3 months ago | 1 read
It was an excruciating day at the J Stadium on Tuesday, as Juventus came agonizingly close to a winning goal against Sporting CP, only to be denied by last-second blocks, misjudged runs, or high-level saves by goalkeeper Rui Silva. In short, rotten luck. Given the position the result puts Juve in in the League Phase, […]
3 months ago | 1 read
When I was a freshman in high school, my homeroom teacher’s name was Mr. Bobo. No, I’m dead serious, that’s actually his surname. Mr. Bobo was — well, is, the man’s still very much alive — a man of few words, who often watched the world in front of him with an attitude that could […]
3 months ago | 1 read
If Luciano Spalletti’s first two games as Juventus manager have shown us anything, it’s that he’s been able to unlock a few things when it comes to this team’s previously frustrating chance creation issues. The finishing of those chances, though? That’s still a problem. Juventus outshot Sporting CP by nearly a 5-to-1 margin on Tuesday […]
3 months ago | 1 read