Unless you\u2019ve been living under a rock the size of Gleison Bremer\u2019s incredibly broad shoulders, you probably already know that Juventus\u2019 last two outings have been rather interesting. They\u2019ve both included thrilling, last-minute comebacks both domestically and in Juve\u2019s first European fixture of the season. But they\u2019ve also shown that this team still has its flaws \u2014 but it\u2019s not like we didn\u2019t know that already.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The wild 4-3 win over Inter Milan this past weekend marked the first time since Max Allegri\u2019s first final season with Juventus that the Bianconeri have started a new campaign with nine points out of a possible nine. That was followed up all of three days later with a stoppage-time comeback against Borussia Dortmund in which Dusan Vlahovic and Lloyd Kelly were the late heroes to allow Juve to get a point in a game they had no business drawing once stoppage time got underway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Lots of goals. Lots and lots of goals. So many goals! Lots of mistakes, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But they\u2019re two results in which Juventus have certainly provided plenty of thrills as well as moments to potentially be concerned about as the first busy portion of the schedule with midweek fixtures gets going.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
So what\u2019s been good and what\u2019s been not-so-good during this two-game stretch of impressive goals and not-so-impressive defending? Glad you asked. Let\u2019s take a look at a few things.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
It\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve seen Juventus score a combined total of eight goals within a two-game stretch. It\u2019s impressive even when you don\u2019t even see how the goals were scored and who scored them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But then when you see the goals, they\u2019re even better.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
We\u2019ve seen Kenan Yildiz score two absolutely gorgeous goals, which feels like it\u2019s becoming more and more of a common sight as he gets more experience under his belt. We saw Vasilije Ad\u017ei\u0107 score what has to be one of the more first senior-level goals we\u2019ve seen from a Juve player in quite a while over the weekend. We\u2019ve gotten not one but two goals out of Kelly, a player who up until this past weekend had been thought of more for things he hadn\u2019t done in a Juve shirt rather than providing big game-changing moments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Plus, the impact Vlahovic made off the bench against Borussia Dortmund. That\u2019s pretty impressive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Is expecting Juventus to score four goals every game from here on out the norm? Of course not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But with an attacking group of players that just feels more dynamic than a season ago and Igor Tudor wanting to play a much more direct style of play compared to the guy he took over for this past March, Juve suddenly find themselves scoring goals \u2014 and absolutely worldies at that \u2014 at a rate we haven\u2019t seen often over a two-game period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Who knows how long it will last, but it\u2019s at least enjoyable in the moment. Except for one thing \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
And long-range goals at that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
This is basically the opposite of what we saw in Juventus\u2019 first two Serie A fixtures in which we were praising the Juve defense for a pair of shutouts and appreciating the simple fact that Bremer was back in the lineup.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The thing is, though, things have quickly changed \u2014 and not for the better.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Seven goals have been picked out of the Juventus net over the last 180 or so minutes of game action. Many of those goals \u2014 hell, almost all of them \u2014 have been of the long-range variety in which Juventus midfield and\/or defense have been made to pay for not closing down their man outside of the box. It happened against Inter, it then happen again against Dortmund and Juve were made to pay because of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
It\u2019s been both simple bad defending by individuals as well as team defensive breakdowns to allow some of those impending goals to happen. As much as a couple of them were incredible individual efforts \u2014 see Inter\u2019s first two goals in the Derby d\u2019Italia \u2014 there\u2019s also more Juve could have done to prevent some of the others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
With the team showing they can score on a more consistent basis compared to last season \u2014 I know, it\u2019s a small sample size, but just go with it since it\u2019s a different manager \u2014 trying to shore up the defense again has to be the biggest priority that Tudor has on his to-do list right now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Whether Juve can actually do that and start getting shutouts again remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
You get to a point where you can only describe a budding star so many ways. It\u2019s starting to feel like that for Yildiz simply because of how he\u2019s played for much of Tudor\u2019s time as Juventus\u2019 manager.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
And you also get the sense that this could be just the start, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Anadolu via Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n At 20 years old, it feels pretty safe to say that Yildiz is one of the best U-21 talents in the world today. He\u2019s not only arguably Juve\u2019s best player at the moment, but he\u2019s becoming the kind of player who is only getting better as time passes. Ever since the 2025-26 season began, there is just a different look to Yildiz\u2019s game \u2014 and that is saying something based on how he played during the previous year and a half when he got his first shot at top-flight football.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The goals he\u2019s scoring this season are fantastic. The assists he\u2019s providing for his teammates are pretty great, too. He\u2019s becoming more and more of the opposition\u2019s No. 1 focus defensively, and that is not going to change any time soon as long as he keeps being a major threat every time the ball is at his feet. And despite all of that, his still out there scoring banger after banger and replicating goals against Borussia Dortmund like his idol Alessandro Del Piero did all those years ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n We can worry about Yildiz and the transfer market at a more pressing time in the future. Why? Because, for now, Yildiz looks like he\u2019ll sign a new deal with a big-time raise sooner rather than later and the club is doing whatever they can to keep their biggest asset as happy as can be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n I\u2019m just happy Yildiz is a Juventus player in 2025 because it sure is fun to see him become such an impressive player eight in front of our eyes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This man continues to be a conundrum. He just is \u2014 and I\u2019m rather stumped what needs to happen to see him show positive signs that he\u2019s returning to his form from his Atalanta days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n There are plenty of theories as to why he\u2019s still struggling to replicate that form from his final season in Bergamo. For all we know, it\u2019s a combination of a few of those theories \u2014 or it could be something completely unrelated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Whatever the heck it is, Koopmeiners still remains a player who doesn\u2019t look close to the one he was when he was one of the best midfielders in. Serie A during the 2023-24 season. With Francisco Concei\u00e7\u00e3o out injured coming out of the international break, Tudor has shifted his formation a bit to bring on an extra midfielder in Koopmeiners. However, the results haven\u2019t been as we have hoped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Koopmeiners is doing a lot of work off the ball \u2014 he\u2019s been amongst the leaders in ground covered \u2014 but that feels like one of the only positive figures to come out of the last two games for the 27-year-old Dutchman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Tudor looks like he wants to give Koopmeiners some continuous run to try and get some confidence going again. And you can understand why because there is still a good player in there somewhere. It\u2019s just a matter of it will actually show its face again soon, or if the same kind of struggles we\u2019ve seen for much of the last 12 months only continue to roll on as we approach 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Because you can count me as though who didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Maybe that\u2019s just me thinking it was going to be more of the same from Vlahovic that we\u2019ve seen for much of the last couple of years. He would have good moments, but the full picture told us he was a player who wasn\u2019t living up to his lofty, Serie A-high salary that he got when he moved from Fiorentina nearly four years ago. (Not that it\u2019s his fault Juve\u2019s former management team led by Fabio Paratici gave him that contract. That was one of his final gifts before he left Turin and headed over to Tottenham.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But when you play well, you deserve the kudos that come with it. And Vlahovic is certainly in that camp.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Vlahovic, for whatever reason, has taken to this super sub-like role. All of his goals this season have come when he\u2019s been an option off the bench for Tudor. His performance against Inter wasn\u2019t great, but that was more down to how isolated up front \u2014 he only had 14 touches total! \u2014 rather than his own doing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hell, he even scored with his weaker right foot on the goal that pulled Juve within one and started the unthinkable comeback in stoppage time against Dortmund. That deserves some props right there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n For a player who many of us \u2014 maybe all of us? \u2014 didn\u2019t expect to even still be a Juventus player at this point, it\u2019s pretty impressive to just see him go out and ball. I don\u2019t know how long this will last with Vlahovic, but it sure is fun to watch compared to the alternative where he\u2019s all grumpy on the field because he just missed a sitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Look, this is not a pressing of the panic button of anything close to it. Since preseason training began in late July, David hasn\u2019t even been with his new teammates for three months. That means we\u2019re still very much at the infancy stage of a talented player trying to develop a rapport with his new squad \u2014 and especially with an attacking group that saw a good amount of change over the summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But after his goal in the season-opening win over Parma, David has been rather quiet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Of course, with Vlahovic scoring as much as he has, it\u2019s offset David\u2019s output thus far if you want to think about it that way. But I guess that\u2019s trying to spin it into a little bit better of a light, so maybe you won\u2019t follow that line of thinking. Either way, David has not been a hugely productive player during his first few games in bianconero.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The good thing is that he is still contributing even if he isn\u2019t getting a ton of scoring chances. That\u2019s evident by the fact that he got the assist on Ad\u017ei\u0107\u2018s stunning game-winner against Inter. You just hope that he could get more chances in front of goal or put away the chances that he does get. (Because he is getting them.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s still very early in David\u2019s time in Turin, and there\u2019s still a lot to like about the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 he brings with him to Turin. We\u2019re just waiting for that player to be on display because it will just add even more to a dangerous attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nGood: Contract Year Vlahovic<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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