Juventus to open Max Allegri’s second stint as manager against Udinese

Wednesday began with a diminished variety of gamers exhibiting as much as J Medical in Turin for his or her first day of preseason preparations. Paulo Dybala, Weston McKennie and the opposite gamers who didn’t participate nationwide workforce obligation this summer time rolled up in Jeeps and hopped out to formally get their 2021-22 seasons below approach.

The day ended with one other key piece of the puzzle: the schedule launch for stated 2021-22 season.

The second period for Max Allegri as Juventus supervisor will start on the highway in Udine when the Bianconeri, and not using a Scudetto patch on their jersey for the primary time in a decade, face Udinese on Sunday, Aug. 22. Allegri’s Juve will open its dwelling schedule — probably with a good variety of followers filling the Allianz Stadium seats — per week later when newly promoted Empoli rolls into Turin on Aug. 29.

There’s a twist that got here with the schedule launch this season: The andata and ritorno gained’t be utterly equivalent with the one factor being flipped is the placement the place the video games are performed. As an alternative, Juventus will open the second half of the season in opposition to Napoli after enjoying them the third week of the season in September.

Juventus’ full schedule is under:

With the schedule not matching up with Matchdays 1-19 and Matchdays 20-38, that creates some attention-grabbing stretches within the schedule which may not have been there in earlier years. The primary massive stretch comes proper after the primary worldwide break of the 2021-22 season when Juventus faces Napoli and Milan in back-to-back weeks. However, like I stated, that gained’t be replicated in the identical approach within the second half of the season, with Juventus enjoying Napoli to open the return dates after which enjoying Roma the primary two weekends of January.

One other key stretch seems to be the start of October when Juve go Torino-Roma-Inter whereas additionally hitting the meat of the Champions League group stage schedule.

It doesn’t matter what, although, issues are beginning to come collectively once we have a look at Allegri’s first season again at Juventus. Now, with such a diminished group in Continassa for the primary couple of weeks of preseason coaching, the eye will possible shift to what’s occurring off the sphere and what the roster Allegri should work with seems like as in comparison with who Max is screaming at that day at coaching.