Juventus fans were promised a new era. The club finally had money to spend on big transfers and were able to reinforce the most neglected area of the squad: the midfield. There have been little flashes here and there, but it has been far too inconsistent to give me much hope for better days.
We started the month with the completely ridiculous annual trip to Saudi Arabia to give them our soul and all our money to play the Supercoppa mini-tournament. Juventus had a dominant first half and deservedly went into half-time with a lead. Samuel Mbangula played a terrific through ball behind the Milan defense to Kenan Yildiz, who was in a 1-on-1 with goalkeeper Mike Maignan.
The Turkish youngster fired a powerful shot past Maignan to give his team the lead. We remained reasonably comfortable for most of the second half until the final 20 minutes of the game.
Suddenly, there was new life in Milan. First, Manuel Locatelli committed a poor sliding tackle in the box on Christian Pulisic, who picked himself up and scored the equalizer from the subsequent penalty. It was a quick one-two punch after that as Milan took the lead a few minutes later. Federico Gatti deflected a cross and Michele Di Gregorio, who had anticipated the cross but not the wicked deflection, was too far out of his goal to prevent the deflection from going in.
An impressive comeback victory for Milan and yet another game in which Juventus lose after taking the lead. Yildiz scored for the second game in a row after a lovely piece of dribbling and a cracking low shot in the 8th minute. Despite being comfortable for most of the game, Juventus conceded an equalizer a few seconds before the half-time whistle. Yann Karamoh weaved his way from the wing to the center of the pitch and passed to Nikola Vlasic.
