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Juventus have had a poor league performance this season, playing 21 games and scoring just 38 points, ranking 5th, 11 points behind Top Inter Milan. Inter also played one game less than Juventus. Such a gap makes Juventus' hope of winning the title slim. For Juventus, competing for Champions League qualification is a more reliable goal. In recent times, Juventus has gradually entered a good situation, remaining unbeaten in 7 consecutive league rounds, including 5 wins and 2 draws, and scoring 17 points. This allowed Juventus to close the gap with the team in front of them. At such a critical moment, Juventus suffered a heavy blow, and Chiesa sprained his cruciate ligament in his left knee during the team's match against Roma and will undergo surgery. That means he will be sidelined for at least 6 months, which is too much of a loss for Juventus.
Chiesa is a very important player in the Juventus squad and he is very sharp on the offensive end. Currently, Chiesa is the most expensive player in the Juventus team. The latest value of the German transfer shows that The value of Chiesa has reached 70 million euros. Behind Chiesza is De Ligt, who is worth 65 million euros. Dybala is worth 50 million euros, ranking 3rd. Morata and Locatelli, both at €35 million, are tied for 4th. Clearly, once Chiesa is missing, Juventus are missing a very important solution on the offensive end. In this case, it is extremely difficult for Allegri to improve the team's attack, which is not good enough.
The league is currently in a white-hot stage, which will make Juventus's competition for the fourth place more suspenseful, after all, there is still a certain gap with the team in front of him, and the gap with the team behind him is not very large. The top 2 teams are no match, with Juventus five points behind Napoli in third place and Three points behind Atalanta at no. 4. Juventus is not much different from Atalanta, but Juventus mostly plays 1 game than Atalanta. Atlanta still has a large initiative. Roma, Fiorentina and Lazio all had 32 points, all six points behind Juventus. If Juventus wants to keep the 5th place, they need to keep scoring points and can't easily lose.
Juventus will next face Inter Milan, and the italian Super Cup final will attract much attention. As we all know, Inter Milan is now in a very hot state, achieving a wave of 8 consecutive wins in the league. Under the tutelage of Inzaghi Jr., this Inter Milan team is full of aggression and at the same time the defense is very stable. Currently, Inter are the team with the most goalscoring in Serie A, scoring 51 goals. Juventus only scored 32 goals. Meanwhile, Inter conceded only 16 goals, the second fewest in Serie A, while Juventus conceded 21. Now that Juventus are missing Chiesa, it will be too difficult to beat Inter in this focus battle.