Allegri’s team Juventis defeated Frosinone 4-0
Max Allegri handled a Juventus game for the 400th time on Thursday evening. And with that extremely noteworthy achievement, one could argue even with a good dose of irony that a beloved corto muso kind of victory would be the ideal way to commemorate the event. Even if Max was shouting on the outside, it would have been something you knew would make him grin on the inside.
Although it wasn’t nearly as convincing as Juventus’ rout of Salernitana to start 2024, it was quite close. Juventus scored one of their biggest goals in a single game in recent memory on Thursday night for the second straight Coppa Italia match at the Allianz Stadium.
Allegri’s team defeated Frosinone 4-0 to extend their unbeaten streak in all competitions to 16 games. Kenan Yildiz’s most recent individual miracle was capped by a hat trick from Arek Milik and two outstanding assists from Weston McKennie.
With 400th match as Juventus coach, Massimiliano Allegri is only the third manager in club history to reach that feat, joining Giovanni Trapattoni (596) and Marcello Lippi (405). How wise was Allegri to add McKennie back to the team during the summer? How does it appear thus far? The guy has been one of Juve’s three or four top players this season without a question. Now that he is back at Juventus, the player who struggled at Leeds United appears to be entirely rejuvenated.
In the Coppa Italia Round of 16, Frosinone’s team easily defeated Napoli, the defending league winners (barf), to go to their first-ever quarterfinal. However, considering the situation, the coach named a very thin starting lineup. Di Francesco deployed a 3-4-2-1 system, which is unusual for him. At its base sat Michele Cerofolini, backed defensively by Simone Romagnoli, Caleb Okoli, and Mateus Lusuardi. In midfield, Luca Mazzitelli and Marco Brescianini were flanked by Pol Lirola and Luca Garritano, while Kaio Jorge was supported up front by Arijon Ibrahimovic and Abdou Harroui.
Along with it comes the last position in the Coppa Italia semifinals and a two-leg match to attempt and repeat as champions, something they failed to do the previous year, against Maurizio Sarri and Lazio.
Even though Mattia Perin was plucking the ball out of his own net just a minute into the match against Salernitana last Thursday, things didn’t start off the same way Wednesday night against Frosinone. The first ten minutes weren’t particularly lovely, with passes going everywhere and Juventus finding it difficult to maintain possession. Ten minutes in, Milik gave Juventus the lead with a penalty kick after Fabio Miretti was fouled. Then, after trading passes with US international Weston McKennie, he finished a counterattack. After receiving another assist from McKennie, Kenan Yildiz scored his fourth goal through a tap-in.
Juventus to put it simply, did what they had to do in the Coppa Italia once again. Salernitana and now Frosinone are currently in good form and simply beating them would have been something that you file under “taking care of business” and then moved on to the next fixture. I is unexpected knowing how Juventus has played for much of the 2023-24 season (and much of the previous two years before that), was the vision of Juventus outscoring those two opponents in the Coppa Italia by a score of 10-1 and scoring some of the goals they did in a pretty easy-on-the-eye kind of fashion.