Game Time Thread: Juventus vs. AC Milan
27/04/2024 16:40
Big game tonight. Very big game.
Tonight marks one of the final times that Juventus will take to the Allianz Stadium field this season and try to earn three points in front of their hometown crowd.
Over the last three months, like a lot of things having to do with Juve, playing in front of the home crowd hasn't always meant that things are going to go all that well. Up until the final days of January, Juve had one of the best records at home in all of Serie A, with plenty of wins and very few goals allowed. Since then, though? Yeah, not great.
It's a very mid-table kind of six games played and nine points earned.
No, that's not nice. Nothing about the last three months of Juventus has been all that nice.
So as Juve take the field tonight against rival AC Milan in a matchup between second place and third place, trying to get some sort of positivity going again — both at home and in the grand scheme of things — is very much the main objective. Same goes for not letting those who currently sit in fourth and fifth get any closer to Juve in third no matter how much Serie A getting a fifth Champions League spot might have changed how we suddenly look at the league table.
Either way, Juve need to not continue to do what they've been doing a lot of over these last three months — drop points, play like crap, put out an overall product that resembles a team that is very much ready for the season to be over with. It's been a pretty brutal stretch for coaches, players and supporters alike. (Lucky for you, dear reader, is that you don't have to try and write about this team every weekend!)
Here's to hoping that this big game doesn't look like pretty much all of the others from February until now. Or even the last time Juventus played a team from Milan. It was bad to see that kind of thing happen at the San Siro, but if it happens in Turin? Yikes, don't get me started on what that will do for the mindset of this team entering the final month of the season.
MATCH INFO
When: Saturday,April 27, 2024.
Where: Allianz Stadium, Turin, Italy.
Official kickoff time: 6 p.m. in Italy and the Central European time zone, 5 p.m. in the United Kingdom, 12 p.m. Eastern time, 9 a.m. Pacific time.
STARTING LINEUPS
Juventus starting XI: TBA
Juventus bench: TBA
AC Milan starting XI: TBA
AC Milan bench: TBA
HOW TO WATCH
Television: TNT Sports 4 (United Kingdom).
Online/Streaming:Paramount+ (United States); fuboTV Canada (Canada); discovery+, discovery+ app (United Kingdom); DAZN Italy, Sky Go Italia (Italy).
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