It was reasonable to see Vlahovic played the game late from the bench because he is being prepared for more crucial match in the Champions League next Thursday. It does not really matter if he did not score goal in the last match as the main purpose of a team is to win the game no matter who score the goals. The most important thing from the 3 points is to keep them comfortable enough in their current position.
It is very important to save players for the Champions League matches, because Juventus have enough injured players. Juventus beat Sampdoria very competently, 3 shots on target and three goals scored (of course, an own goal is out of statistics, but it doesn’t matter). This is what I call lazy victory. Sampdoria spent the whole match very actively, but lost on the class.
I think Sampdoria's front line was very frustrated in that match. 16 shots only 5 on target. and created 1 goal near the end of the second half.
while Juventus played very simply. possession of the ball in the middle lures Sampdoria defenders out. make attacks and score goals. very simple but effective. Juventus know very well they have to save the performance of their players for matches in the Champions League. Juve certainly does not want to lose the first leg.
Sampdoria looked quite frustrated, many shots were taken by Sampdoria players but only created one goal. Even Sampdoria's players missed
the chance to score through a penalty kick, I see Sampdoria are quite good in building attacks, but Sampdoria are inferior in quality to Juventus
players. Because the Juventus players have much better quality, so not many kicks were taken by Juventus players, but Juventus managed
to score 3 goals. Even though the match looks even but indeed Juventus really deserved to win.
This Juventus victory makes the difference in points with Napoli closer, because now Juventus is only one point away from Napoli. Of course Juventus
victory will put pressure on Napoli players, when Napoli faced Verona whose match was about to start soon. We'll see if Napoli can get out of
the pressure and win the game or even Napoli will drop points against Verona.
If we look at Dusan Vlahovic who hasn't played from the start of the game, it's clear that Allegri rotated players, so that when facing Villarreal
in the Champions League Vlahovic can be fit. Because facing Villarreal is one of the important matches that Juventus must win to be able to advance
to the next round.
