Angel Di Maríaa officially debuts at Juventus. Photo Robyn Beck / AFP
Argentinian Ángel Di María will make his Serie A debut with his new team Juventus on Monday in the home game against Sassuolo for the first date of the 2022/23 season.
The match will be played from 15:45 with a broadcast on ESPN 2 and the Star + platform, after the other match that completes the date: Hellas Verona-Napoli (13:30).
Di María, 34, joined the Turin club for a year after being released from Paris Saint-Germain in France and previously developing his career at Rosario Central, Benfica, Real Madrid and Manchester United.
And he may not be the last Argentine to join it, given that in Paris it is said that Leandro Paredes will follow in the footsteps of Di María and will join the Old Lady, who this season got rid of Paulo Dybala, who was sold to Rome, who in the inauguration date won 1-0 as a guest of Salernitana.
“We are a team that has a duty to win again. We work well, but it is normal not to be in optimal conditions: there are four, five or six teams very well prepared for the Scudetto like Milan, Inter, Rome, and we are among them”, analyzed Juventus DT Massimiliano Allegri.
The coach offered a press conference on the eve of the duel against Sassuolo, against which Juventus will try to start a path that will allow them to fight again for the “Scudetto” after finishing in fourth place in the two previous editions of the Italian championship. . .
The “Old Lady”, who ended the 2021-22 season without a title, will also be looking to show a better version of herself against her fans following the painful 4-0 home defeat to Atlético Madrid in the last friendly match of heating.
“The beautiful defeat against Atlético Madrid did us good, I felt too much triumphalism and we are a team with a duty to try to win. Against Sassuolo it will be a good match, also because last year we lost against them in home. The first game always generates curiosity, you need the 3 points “, underlined Allegri.
The DT also stressed the importance of “being in the top four in mid-November”, when Serie A is interrupted by the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
“Compared to the other vintages, a lot has changed: in the past seasons we had to be in the top four in March, now we will have to be in the top four in mid-November”, underlined Allegri.
Instead, he refused to comment on the news in the Italian press on possible new Juventus reinforcements: “I’m not talking about the transfer market and I don’t know if we are stronger than last year, but I can say very well the players left and arrived. Distracted by the transfer market. “We have the opportunity to take advantage of these four games and we will have to work in silence. Arthur will not be there, he has a problem with his ankle and there are market rumors involving him. Allegri has warned about the Brazilian midfielder.”
Allegri will also not be able to count on the Polish goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, injured like Federico Chiesa and on the French midfielder Paul Pogba, one of the reinforcements with the Argentine Ángel Di María and the Brazilian Gleison Bremer, who will be the owners.
“We need to review the regulation, because it is one thing if they will expel him on the last date of the championship, another is if after 38 dates a warning is still valid: it is for the show and for the good of all the teams”, he questioned. Allegri, who also could not field the suspended Moise Kean and the French midfielder Adrien Rabiot.
possible formations
Juve: Mattia Perin; Leonardo Bonucci, Bremer and Alex Sandro; Manuel Locatelli, Denis Zakaria and Fabio Miretti; Juan Cuadrado, Àngel Di María and Dusan Vlahovic.
Sassuolo: Andrea Consigli; Martin Erlic, Gian Marco Ferrari, Mert Mûldûr and Georgios Kyriakopoulos; Matheus Henrique, Davide Frattesi and Kristian Thorstdevt; Domenico Berardi, Giacomo Raspadori and Andrea Pinamonti.
Referee: Antonio Rapuano
Now: 15:45 from Argentina
TV: ESPN 2 and Stella +
Source: Clarin
