Yesterday, Juventus met at Continassa to prepare for the match against Lazio which will be scheduled for Saturday 19 October, at 8.45pm, at the Allianz Stadium and will be valid for the 8th matchday of Serie A. The Bianconeri worked in pouring rain, but Thiago Motta bullied his players as always. The menu of Juventus’ training session was quite rich as revealed by the club in an official note: “Under pouring rain, the team focused on the pitch – after the usual warm-up phase – on ball possession and physical work” .
Thiago Motta finds five internationals again.
Yesterday, Juventus found their first national team again. In fact, the Juventus group is gradually finding the players who followed their respective selections. The first to return were the Italians Michele Di Gregorio, Andrea Cambiaso and Nicolò Fagioli. The Juventus number 21 was welcomed with particular joy by Thiago Motta who hugged him shortly before starting the session, as seen in a video posted by Juventus itself on Instagram. In addition to the Azzurri, however, Kenan Yildiz, fresh from excellent performances with his Türkiye, and Jonas Rouhi also returned. Therefore, the Juventus group is increasingly numerous, net of the absences of the injured Gleison Bremer, Arek Milik, Nico Gonzalez, Weston McKennie and Teun Koopmeiners. However, the other national teams will also return to Continassa and from today the group will be practically complete. In fact, Francisco Conceicao, Nicolò Savona and Samuel Mbangula are also expected. However, Captain Danilo and Juan Cabal will still be missing and are expected today in Turin. Both will in fact only have Friday to prepare for the match against Lazio.
Pogba wants to stay at Juventus.
After a long time, Paul Pogba broke the silence and spoke again, in a long interview with the Gazzetta dello Sport, and explained that he wanted to remain at the court of the Old Lady: “I am willing to give up even money to play still in Juventus. I want to come back.” The Frenchman seems determined to want to stay in Turin and now hopes to be able to convince Thiago Motta too: “I don’t have to speak, the pitch will speak and then Thiago Motta will judge with his eyes, based on what he sees. The chatter is nice, but I want to play and in Juventus and in France I want to be the best.” Pogba will be able to resume training from January and will be able to return to the field from March as his doping disqualification has been reduced from 4 years to 18 months. Now it is up to Juventus to make a decision and in the next few weeks it will be understood whether the Frenchman’s future will still be black and white or not.