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After consecutive victories over Bologna and Roma in direct clashes at the top end of the Serie A table, Juventus went into Saturday’s game against Pisa looking at a five-game stretch against provincial sides. It was a major opportunity to rack up points and put pressure on the teams above them in the race for […]
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Saturday night was Juventus’ first visit to the Arena Garibaldi in nearly 12,800 days. In case you’re not able to do the quick math in your head — and who could blame you with that kind of number — that’s nearly 35 years, with a mid-January visit to Pisa in 1991 being the last time […]
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MATCH INFO When: Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. Where: Stadio Romeo Anconetani, Pisa, Italy. Official kickoff time: 8:45 p.m. local time in Italy and across Europe, 7:45 p.m. in the United Kingdom, 2:45 p.m. Eastern time, 1:45 p.m. Central time, 11:45 a.m. Pacific time. STARTING LINEUPS Juventus starting XI (3-4-2-1): Di Gregorio; Kalulu, Bremer, Kelly; McKennie, Locatelli, Thuram, Cambiaso; Yildiz, […]
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Just like that, we’re down to the final 90 minutes of Juventus football for the 2025 calendar year. It’s been quite the eventful year — which is not news to anybody who has even casually followed the happenings surrounding this squad, who has coached it and who has been there to try and assemble a […]
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After taking a break on Christmas Day, the Zona Mista is back as we get ready for the final weekend of 2025. And this one will have a little different twist on it. Since it was Christmas and things were pretty quiet for many over the past 24 hours, we’re going to go ahead and […]
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Is that a smidge of consistency I see? Do I detect some notes of an actual style of play? Is there, perhaps, some semblance of optimism in the air? Juventus have authored two of their most impressive wins of the Luciano Spalletti era with back-to-back solid victories in Serie A over Bologna and Roma. The […]
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The Kenan Yildiz contract extension talks have taken a new turn. It’s not necessarily a bad one per se. Nor is it one that we should be particularly surprised by considering his extremely fast trajectory to impending stardom. But it’s a development nonetheless — and one that feels like it’s now on Juventus’ table to […]
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Mattia Perin has routinely said in the past that playing a part-time role at Juventus is something that matters more to him than being the full-time starter at pretty much any of the other clubs in Italy. It’s why, even after such a lengthy stay in Turin, there hasn’t appeared to be a temptation for […]
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Good morning, everybody! It’s the Christmas Eve edition of the Zona Mista. Get all of your shopping done yet? Not over here! No matter what, though, we are eagerly counting down the days to Christmas … and Juventus’ final fixture of the 2025 calendar year this Saturday on the road at newly-promoted Pisa. More on […]
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Juventus will be looking to make it seven wins from eight as they close out the 2025 calendar year against Pisa on Saturday, and they’ll be counting on Manuel Locatelli to deliver the goods and win the midfield battle against the newly-promoted side that has only one Serie A win to its record so far […]
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It’s Tuesday! And it’s the Zona Mista! Put 2 and 2 together and you’ve got 4 … and the Tuesday Zona Mista! How ‘bout that, my friends? With the final fixture of the 2025 calendar year only a few days away and there thankfully being no midweek fixtures right around Christmastime in Italy, we can […]
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The long wait for Juventus to hire a new sporting director appears to be finally set to reach its official end. According to just about all of the big-name reporters and sports media outlets in Italy on Monday night, Juventus have verbally agreed to a deal to bring in former Genoa director Marco Ottolini as […]
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It was a good weekend for Juventus. Just in the same kind of way in which last weekend was a good weekend for Juventus. Funny how that works when you win and move closer than you have been in weeks to the top four in Serie A? That’s something we haven’t been able to say […]
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Hello again, everybody. It’s Monday, and that means the return of the Zona Mista after having the weekend off. Did you miss it? Of course you did! Look at us just providing you plenty of content to start out your week. So enough stalling. Let’s get to business. Let the man cook Look who finally […]
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Sunday was the last in Juventus’ three-game stretch against direct competitors at the top of the table, and they acquitted themselves as well as they have in quite some time. In what may have been the most complete performance we’ve seen the team put in since the false dawn of Mottaball against AC Milan this […]
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The month of December has been nothing but Big Games for Juventus. In the last 18 days, they’ve played a Coppa Italia knockout match, a must-win Champions League match, and league games against three of the six teams that were ahead of them in the standings on Dec, 1. They’ve ended up acquitting themselves quite […]
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For the second straight week, Juventus were lined up against a team in which they are in direct competition for a spot in the top four in Serie A. And it was maybe even a greater challenge than last week no matter how tough it has become to pick up three points in Bologna the […]
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MATCH INFO When: Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. Where: Allianz Stadium, Turin, Italy. Official kickoff time: 8:45 p.m. local time in Italy and across Europe, 7:45 p.m. in the United Kingdom, 2:45 p.m. Eastern time, 1:45 p.m. Central time, 11:45 a.m. Pacific time. STARTING LINEUPS Juventus starting XI (3-4-2-1): Di Gregorio; Kalulu, Bremer, Kelly; McKennie, Thuram, Locatelli (C), Cambiaso; Conceiçao, […]
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We are down to the final 180 minutes of football for Juventus in 2025. It has been a calendar in which three different men have managed Juventus — which, honestly, is something you never want to see take place no matter if you’re a team competing for Europe or simply not get relegated. But this […]
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Juventus’ final game before Christmas arrives is a rather important one, with one of Serie A’s biggest early-season surprises making their way to Turin to try and keep their positive momentum going. In just four months at Roma, Gian Piero Gasperini has turned the Giallorossi into one of Europe’s best defensive units. Gasp’s squad certainly […]
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We’ve made it to Friday, everybody. Thank goodness. It’s been a week! But enough about me … We are one day away from another Juventus game day — and a very important one at that. But just because there was no midweek fixture for Juventus doesn’t mean nothing is happening. Let’s look at some links. […]
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Weston McKennie is currently not the biggest name under the microscope when it comes to contract talks at Juventus, but he does have this simple fact attached to him: Unless something changes, the American midfielder who has been at Juventus since 2020, will be out of a contract in Turin. And as things stand right […]
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We’re one day closer to the weekend, folks. And hopefully it’s a good weekend for all of you. Before we get there, though, there’s still a couple of shifts to put before we can officially call it the weekend. Let’s get to some links. Just a couple of 10s cuttin’ it up So close Here’s […]
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Thanks to a strong start to the 2025-26 season, Hellas Verona fullback Rafik Belghali has become the interest of a good number of Italy’s bigger clubs. It just so happens that Juventus look to be one of those clubs who are interested in trying to secure the services of the Algerian-born right back. That is […]
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It’s the Hump Day edition of the Zona Mista, folks. Just think about it — after this day, we’re just a couple more days away from the weekend and Juventus returning to the field. Maybe that turns out a good thing. Maybe … well, we won’t think negative thoughts right now. There is some Juventus […]
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