The Juventus football market of this season 2018/2019 was among the most expensive and left many expectations on the Juventus team. In fact, in summer there was the return of defender Bonucci, the acquisition of the excellent talent Cancelo, the arrival of Emre Can from Liverpool, that of the strong young goalkeeper from Genoa Mattia Perin but especially the arrival of the phenomenon four times Golden Ball Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid in a total operation worth over 200 million euros.
The "Old Lady" with these operations has decided to bet the Champions League of arrogance, trophy touched twice in the last five years reaching and losing two finals, one against Cristiano Ronaldo. The team of the Agnelli family in Italy finds no rivals for the award of the "Scudetto" that has been assigned in their bulletin board for seven years, consecutively.
The immense operation this summer has brought a breath of positiveness into the environment, especially concerning the Champions League goal, and Juventus has been following so far and exceeding all the best expectations. In Serie A they are first with 21 wins and 3 draws in 24 matches played, and in the Champions League have passed first in the group. The problem was the draw that already in the second round led to Juventus one of the toughest opponents to face: Atletico Madrid Cholo Simeone able to fight and put in trouble anyone, in every game, with their style of wrestlers.
Just yesterday, the first match of the UCL round of 16 took place between these two clubs and the final result was a clear 2-0 for Griezzman & co. able to exploit the set pieces and make Dybala and Cristiano Ronaldo inoffensive. Match played in Atletico style by Atletico and Juventus style by Juventus, in fact, we saw a very physical game, with many contacts and little play and scoring opportunities created. Juventus seemed harmless, Atletico cynical in the few balls thrown into the penalty area. The VAR saves Juve twice on 0-0, first by canceling a penalty whistled unjustly by the referee and then canceled a goal to Morata for a doubtful foul on Chiellini. In the end, however, is 2-0, a result that seems to sentence the end of the dreams of glory by the bianconeri, and today the stock market Juventus has recorded a resounding -11%.
Considering that Juventus won hands down in the last seven years in Italy, and the arrival of CR7 among others was to try to win the Champions League, a hypothetical but at this point more than possible elimination in the second round, would mean bankruptcy season for Juventus?
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