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If this Juventus season has taught us anything, it\u2019s that things are far from being a perfect kind of world at Continassa these days. That\u2019s why any sort of statement that starts with \u201cIn a perfect world\u201d is pretty much something you don\u2019t (and won\u2019t) want to apply to Juve\u2019s 2024-25 campaign unless you simply feel like driving yourself into a fit of craziness.<\/p>\n

And because things are far from perfect \u2014 or really even in the same galaxy \u2014 with Juventus right now, they\u2019re coming off a rescheduled midweek fixture against a relegation battler that hadn\u2019t previously claimed a win when lining up against the Turin giants in a decade.<\/p>\n

That makes the race for the top four even the more congested, the more pressing and just anything in between based on how you want to describe it.<\/p>\n

So now, as Juventus return home after a disappointing performance against Parma at the Tardini, they now have to try and rebound against the worst team in Serie A this season. Monza, a team Juve barely beat a couple of days before Christmas, could very well end up being relegated to Serie B this weekend \u2014 something that has felt inevitable for months with how their season has gone. But Juventus, thanks in large part to how things went against Parma, now enter this final game of a three-week stretch against clubs just above or in the relegation zone in desperate need of points to try and get back into the top four.<\/p>\n

A win over Parma would have done just that. But, as we know, things didn\u2019t materialize the way in which Juve needed them to after waiting two extra days to face a Parma team that got a huge boost in their own fight to avoid the drop to Italy\u2019s second division.<\/p>\n

As much as Parma may have stabilized their poor form over the last month or so following a managerial change, the same can\u2019t be said about a Monza side that hired Alessandro Nesta to replace the Fiorentina-bound Raffaele Palladino, fired him after the December loss to Juventus and then re-hired him seven weeks later when Salvatore Bocchetti was sacked.<\/p>\n

Monza last won a game on Jan. 13, a 2-1 win over Fiorentina that had our friends over at Viola Nation<\/a> wondering if the wheels were starting to come off Palladino\u2019s bus. Since then, they\u2019ve played 13 games. In those 13 games, they\u2019ve only earned one more point (2) than they\u2019ve had managerial changes (1).<\/p>\n

For a club that was already in a relegation fight before the turn of the calendar to 2025, that is not the kind of form that makes you think avoiding Serie B is going to happen.<\/p>\n

Yet this is the same Monza side that nearly held Napoli \u2014 you know, one of the two clubs currently tied atop the Serie A table \u2014 to a draw last weekend despite the fact they\u2019re well-established as the team sitting in 20th place.<\/p>\n

So this is Juventus\u2019 task. Just four days after the first truly poor performance under Tudor, Juventus have to prevent further setbacks from happening against the worst team in the league. On paper, that sounds like something that should be relatively simple \u2014 which has usually been a situation in which Juve\u2019s gotten into trouble this season more than a few times.<\/p>\n

The hope was that Juventus facing three straight opponents just above or in the relegation zone would result in nine points in the bank and a decent amount of good vibes heading into the back-to-back fixtures against Bologna and Lazio. Instead, Juve are now looking to rebound following a loss to Parma in the middle of that three-game stretch.<\/p>\n

Just another turn in a season full of weirdness and confusion, right? This is a season that obviously has been far from perfect, so the last thing Juventus need to see happen is capping off a week of in which they\u2019ve already dropped points with even more dropped points against the last-place club that is on the brink of relegation. <\/p>\n

Especially with Bologna on deck, Juve can\u2019t afford anything other than three points at the Allianz this weekend. There really is only one option at this point in time.<\/p>\n