Juventus still does not shine, but unlike the start of the season – they win. And Allegri and his men are getting closer to the fourth position, their secondary goal, since the main target – Serie A title was banished after only a handful of games this season. They still don’t look like Juventus from Max Allegri’s first spell at the club, but they are getting there slowly. With the victory over Cagliari (4:0), the fourth in the last five championship matches, the Old Lady continued her rise on the table and awakened hope for the fans that they will watch their team in the elite European competition for the 11th consecutive season.What makes this Juventus reminiscent of the old Juve, champion Juve, is the defense. Wojciech Szczesny took the ball out of his net only twice in the previous eight games in Serie A. It could be said that the Italian expert tightened his defense, although tonight he found himself in a draft caused by the breakthroughs of the right back of Cagliari, Raul Bellanova. The product of Milan’s school, now a borrowed Bordeaux player, had five minutes in the middle of the second half, when he twice brought his players in ideal opportunities to annul the advantage of Juventus, one in the first and second in the second half, but the first time, Dalbert missed the empty goal from five meters and the second time, Szczesny was there to keep the clean sheet.On the other side, it was Federico Bernadeschi who finally delivered, with an assist after which Moise Kean scored the first goal, and then with his own goal, first after 513 days in Serie A, which ‘killed’ the game, although he could have done it a little earlier, for the sake of his fans. Kulusevski’s first touch was brilliant to take it away from Carboni, and he found Bernadeschi, who was precise this time: 2-0, game over.And with this win, good news arrived to Turin. Atalanta continued with it’s second bad result and is in danger of being overrun by Juventus. After a surprising 4-1 defeat by Roma at home, Atalanta went to the relegation strugglers Genoa and failed to win. A bore 0-0 draw allowed Juventus to move closer, and Allegri’s men are now just four points away.SERIE A – Round 19TuesdayUdinese – Salernitana POSTPONEDGenoa – Atalanta 0-0Juventus – Cagliari 2-0 (1-0)/Kean 40, Bernadeschi 83/Wednesday18.30: (2.10) Sassuolo (3.50) Bologna (3.80)18.30: (4.40) Venezia (3.60) Lazio (1.90)20.30: (1.35) Inter (5.50) Torino (9.50)20.30: (1.60) Roma (4.10) Sampdoria (6.25)20.30: (2.95) Verona (3.40) Fiorentina (2.55)22.45: (4.60) Empoli (3.70) Milan (1.85)22.45: (1.25) Napoli (6.75) Spezia (13.0)***odds are subject to change
