JUVENTUS SEASON 2026-2027

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Juventus message sent by Gatti and Conceicao: ‘Never give in, fight against everyone’

 

 

Federico Gatti insists the late Juventus equaliser confirms his ‘history, as I never give in, I fight against everyone and everything,’ while Francisco Conceicao claims Milan ‘did nothing.’

 

It was a dramatic night in Turin, as Alphadjo Cisse had opened the scoring somewhat against the run of play with a well-taken solo effort, controlling the Samuel Chukwueze cross-field pass and drilling through Pierre Kalulu’s legs.

However, after Francisco Conceicao thumped the woodwork, Juve got their late equaliser in stoppages through a Gatti header on the Teun Koopmeiners cross.

 

When he was celebrating, Gatti screamed into the crowd of Juventus fans “it’s always me!” ............

 

“I’m sorry you are shocked, this is what I’ve always done in my past,” Gatti said.

 

“This is my history, I have an inner strength, I never give in, I fight against everyone and everything with this level of determination.”

 

There had been reports that Gatti was for sale and would be sent to Napoli, following his old coach Max Allegri, along with potential exits towards the Premier League or Turkish Super Lig.

 

“Clearly, I’ll be honest, this brings a point and enthusiasm, but we need to do a lot more if we want to win these games and aim higher.” ............

 

“During the 90 minutes, I feel the truth is that we deserved to win the game,” Conceicao said.

 

“Milan scored the goal, but did absolutely nothing else. I hit the post, Fede scored, so it was in a way good that we didn’t lose, but we deserved all three points.” ............

 

Conceicao was named Serie A Player of the Match despite not finding the back of the net, as he has rattled the frame of the goal twice this season.

 

“I have been working on my finishing, but I hit the woodwork twice this season, I know if those shots were a few centimetres the other way, people would say now I’m a great hitman. I know, this is football, I am working to make the difference with those 5-10 centimetres and get it into the net.”

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Read more -> https://football-italia.net/juventus-message-gatti-conceicao-never-give-in/

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Juventus 1 - AC Milan 1: Initial reaction and random observations

 

 

Being the highly competitive person that he seems to be thanks simply to the career arc he’s been on over the last decade, Federico Gatti would surely prefer to be somebody who plays more than seven or eight minutes in Juventus’ first three games of the season. He may be a Juventino at heart, but he’s also somebody who surely isn’t content with sitting on the bench come the opening three games. ............

 

 

Rather than Fred Cats sneering at the back as Juve tried to lock down a win, Luciano Spalletti threw Gatti on to be the aerial threat that his team had been virtually lacking all game long on Sunday night. How did Gatti announce his presence on the field? By doing what Striker Gatti does — scoring a late header to snatch a result, this time giving Juventus a 1-1 draw against AC Milan when it looked like they were headed toward their for loss of the 2026-27 season.

 

Gatti celebrated with the curva as you would expect him to, with the steward right on the other side of the advertising board seemingly trying to not get absolutely tramped by what was happening right above and behind him.

 

You can be happy that Juventus still have a zero in the loss column. Or you can be frustrated that it took another instance of Striker Gatti to salvage a point in a game in which Juventus were the better side for large swaths of the 90-plus minutes. Both cases can be fair — especially when you look at how little their opponent did outside of the goal they actually scored.

 

Juve limited a Milan side that entered the Allianz Stadium on the back of their own two-game season-opening winning run feeling rather good about where things were under new manager Ruben Amorim. And yet, it was that same Milan side that finished with three shots all game, had an xG of 0.09 (!!) and all of seven touches in the opponents’ penalty area.

 

That is to say, in a shorter way, Juventus’ defense got the job done outside of one very well-placed shot that gave Milan the lead with just over 20 minutes to go.

 

So where does that leave us? Right back to a constant theme of these first three games of the new season: Juventus’ inability to score consistently.

 

This wasn’t like the first two games of the season where Juve were blowing chance after chance after chance. Their shot count wasn’t pushing 30 and you were left pounding your head on the table because of just how many goals they should have as compared to how many goals they actually have. But, Juventus hit the post (again), they forced some very good saves out of Mike Maignan in the Milan goal and certainly shouldn’t have been in position where they were chasing the game in the final 20 minutes.

 

Yet they were. Because in this second game without Kenan Yildiz to lead the push forward from the left wing, this team just ain’t clicking up front. And now that the schedule is very close to getting very busy, you just can’t help but wonder when their misfirings in attack is actually going to truly come back to bite them and they can’t overcome it with some randomness like we saw Sunday night.

 

Or maybe you wouldn’t consider Striker Gatti coming up big again.

 

At this point, I don’t think I’d blame you considering that this isn’t the first time he’s been the leading role in that aforementioned late-game randomness. At the very least, we know that he is going to be able to put his head on the ball — which is something that we couldn’t say for some of the other Juventus players on the field in the 92nd minute on Sunday night. ............

RANDOM THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS

• Seven points in the first three games. Four of those are thanks to goals from central defenders. Just as we all thought would be the case before the season began.
• The last thing Randal Kolo Muani needed was to start the season like he has.
• For a man who is coming off a rough season in the Premier League — and, if you followed Spurs at all, you’d know not all of those struggles were exclusive to him — getting back to the place he truly wanted to be was looked as a much-needed (second) fresh start. Instead, he’s now gone the first three games without scoring and the natives are already getting restless. (And not just our comment section.) This man needs a goal in the worst possible way.
• Juventus were the better team on Sunday. That is what I know.
• Guessing the general message behind this chat was “GO SCORE A GOAL FOR US!” At least that is what I am going to pretend it was and you can’t tell me otherwise.

• Amorim this. Amorim that. Did you see how little Milan actually did in the final third? As much as the attack is still a total question mark, it does appear that Juventus’ two summer signings in defense — as well as Bremer being a few more months removed from his comeback — has tightened things up at the back in a big way. ............
• This was a mixed first start in a Juventus shirt for Kerim Alajbegović. He started out strongly, was very involved, got a couple of pops on goal and looked pretty dang lively even if those shots were off target. But he definitely faded — especially in the second half — as the game went on. Was it conditioning? Probably. Still a decent first start, even if it was quiet last part before he was subbed off.
• Teun Koopmeiners with two goal involvements in his last two games. Just as we all predicted.
• I think it’s pretty safe to say that Nico González was absolutely spent by the time that he was part of the double sub that brought on Koopmeiners and Jérémie Boga in the 64th minute. That man ran his socks off and was an absolute menace for a lot of his time on the field. ............
• Juventus have now hit the post at least once in all three of their games this season. More shots on goal rather than actually on the goal, please. ............
• So that wasn’t a foul on Kolo Muani that led to Milan’s goal? Do I have that right? Because it did look like a foul to me, but then again I am totally biased and don’t want to see Juventus allowing dumb goals.
• Zeki Celik being Juventus’ left back has brought just so much more calm defensively compared to the man who manned that position for much of the last few years. Juventus needed just a consistent, confident defender who won’t continuously shoot his team in the foot — and that feels exactly like what Celik has done so far since moving to Turin. And at a position we weren’t expecting him to play just a few weeks ago. ............
• Pure, genuine rima punta Woltemade is not. But he certainly showed to be a more technical player than this current version of Kolo Muani. (Which, I know, isn’t saying much with how rough Kolo Muani’s touches on the ball were in this game, but just trying to use a little comparison, folks.) ............

Read more -> https://www.blackwhitereadallover.com/previews-reviews/41284/juventus-ac-milan-2026-serie-a-matchday-3-final-score-result-initial-reaction-and-random-observations

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Spalletti refuses to blame referee for Milan’s goal, appears to taunt journalists

 

 

Juventus coach Luciano Spalletti admits Koni De Winter didn’t foul Randal Kolo Muani in the build-up to Milan’s opener last night: ‘I’m not going to complain about these things.’

 

Juventus and Milan picked up a 1-1 draw in their meeting at the Allianz Stadium on Sunday. ............

 

“Mariani is one of the best Italian referees, and in my opinion, the line we are seeing is correct,” Spalletti replied.

 

“If you want to play in Europe, you have to adapt; these are not fouls, and they don’t get called. That’s the right way to do it. Of course, there can be incidents where a foul isn’t given or a yellow card is missed, but at the speed of the game, these things can happen even to a good, experienced referee like him.” ............

 

Spalletti seemed to take a dig at journalists, saying the new refereeing rules might limit their talking points after games.

 

“As I said the other time, this world ‘contact’ that you like to use,” he said.

 

“They teach you that contact means nothing. [Referee designator] Orsato will take the music away from you. Because it’s like a melody, and he takes that away from you because he doesn’t blow the whistle for a contact. Either there is an impact, or there is a foul, or you have to call it something else.

 

“I’m not going to complain about these things; I want to see my team fight until the very end. We were lucky, because we should have taken the goal home earlier.” ............

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Read more -> https://football-italia.net/spalletti-referee-milan-goal-journalists-juve/