Juventus Incar Tiket Liga Champions Saat Jamu Fiorentina di Turin

Juventus membidik tiket kualifikasi otomatis Liga Champions saat menjamu Fiorentina di Allianz Stadium dalam laga pekan ke-37 Serie A pada Minggu, 17 Mei 2026 pukul 12.30 CEST.

Skuad asuhan Luciano Spalletti saat ini berada di peringkat ketiga klasemen dengan 68 poin, unggul dari AC Milan, Roma, dan Como, serta hanya terpaut dua angka dari Napoli di posisi kedua.

Dilansir dari Goal.com, Juventus yang belum terkalahkan dalam 10 pertandingan liga terakhirnya hanya membutuhkan satu kemenangan lagi untuk mengamankan posisi di empat besar.

Di sisi lain, Fiorentina dipastikan aman dari ancaman degradasi ke Serie B setelah bermain imbang tanpa gol melawan Genoa pada pertandingan sebelumnya, dan kini menduduki peringkat ke-15 dengan 38 poin.

Penyerang Juventus, Dusan Vlahovic, menjadi sorotan utama karena akan menghadapi mantan klubnya setelah mencetak gol penentu kemenangan dalam laga terakhir melawan Lecce.

Catatan dari Juventus.com menunjukkan bahwa Vlahovic merupakan satu-satunya pemain dalam sejarah Serie A yang mampu mencetak minimal 40 gol untuk Fiorentina dan Juventus.

Kreativitas di lini depan Bianconeri juga ditopang oleh pemain muda Kenan Yildiz yang telah mencatatkan 16 keterlibatan gol serta membuat 73 kreasi peluang di Serie A musim ini.

Legenda Juventus, Alessandro Del Piero, turut memberikan pandangannya mengenai talenta yang dimiliki oleh penyerang internasional Turki tersebut melalui wawancara dengan La Gazzetta dello Sport.

"Nico Paz, Arda Guler dan [Rayan] Cherki excite me, and then Yildiz." kata Alessandro Del Piero, Legenda Juventus.

Mantan pemain nomor 10 tersebut menilai talenta-talenta kreatif masih terus bermunculan di kompetisi sepak bola Italia saat ini.

"Every national team has players of great creativity and flair. It is a matter of discovering them and watching them carefully." cetus Alessandro Del Piero, Legenda Juventus.

Ia menolak anggapan bahwa sepak bola Italia telah kehilangan sentuhan keindahan dan kreativitasnya di dalam lapangan.

"Creativity in Italy is dead? No, it is always present here, perhaps in other sports more than football right now. It will be rediscovered on our pitches too, by working in the most appropriate way." tutur Alessandro Del Piero, Legenda Juventus.

Di kubu lawan, kepala editor Viola Nation bernama Tito membagikan keluh kesahnya mengenai jalannya musim ini kepada Black White Read All Over.

"Well, Danny, you’re a cat guy. Some people might even say a cat daddy. I wouldn’t go that far, of course, but some people are saying it. Imagine for a moment that you own a cat that has, for the past 9 months, been leaving a dead rat somewhere inside your house once or twice a week. You don’t know where the rat is. Sometimes it’s creatively hidden. Sometimes it takes days to find, sometimes boom, it’s right there on your pillow. Fortunately, in this metaphor that’s in the process of really getting away from me, your local vet knows a pet hypnotist and has gotten you an appointment in a couple weeks. Until then, you’ll just have to deal with the rodent corpses. Does that make it better? Not really. I mean, a dead rat is a dead rat, even if you know it’s the penultimate dead rat of the season. You just can’t wait for this whole episode to be over. Yeah, this metaphor has really gotten away from me. Sorry. I can only plead Fiorentina-induced psychosis from watching this team for all year." ungkap Tito, Kepala Editor Viola Nation.

Tito menambahkan bahwa situasi musim ini sangat menguras emosi karena timnya harus membagi fokus antara kompetisi domestik dan Eropa.

"Fiorentina’s mathematically safe but spiritually speaking, this team deserves to get relegated. Remember back in the fall when your buddy Max Allegri named his Champions League contenders and ignored Fiorentina? Stefano Pioli made a point of writing that on a white board in the dressing room as motivation, which is like a washcloth being mad that it hasn’t been considered a candidate to dry out the Pacific Ocean. Anyways, it’s been stressful, man. Beyond the horror of being stuck in a real relegation scrap for the first time in nearly a decade, there are a bunch of ancillary terrors in there. For one thing, not a lot of teams in the drop zone also have to cope with midweek European games. Don’t get me wrong: the prospect of getting relegated and winning the Conference League was a good bit, but it was also physically and emotionally draining for everyone involved. Oh, and that relegation? It would’ve meant spending the club’s 100th year anniversary in Serie B, which is a humiliation too great to imagine. There’s also the additional stress of the refurbishment of the Stadio Artemio Franchi, which generates unforeseen expenses on a monthly basis and lends a real tinpot feel to the broadcasts and matchday experience. Throw in the organizational chaos of losing 2 head coaches in a matter of months along with the 3 highest-ranking back room figures (Rocco Commisso, Joe Barone, and Daniele Pradè) in the same year and the stress of a potential sale in the wake of the owner’s passing and you’ve got a unique cocktail of misery, which is a fitting epitaph for any Viola season, really." jelas Tito, Kepala Editor Viola Nation.

Meskipun demikian, ia mengaku tetap menyukai atmosfer unik yang ditawarkan oleh kompetisi kasta ketiga Eropa tersebut.

"I’m on record as being a big Conference League fan and that hasn’t changed. I find the ultra-optimization of the very highest level to be boring: every team is trying to be either PSG or Arsenal. The stylistic monoculture just doesn’t do it for me. I know this makes me sound like a hipster (is that a term that applies after 2016ish?) and maybe I am, but the idiosyncrasies and weird archetypes you get in" pungkas Tito, Kepala Editor Viola Nation.

Football Italia melaporkan Fiorentina dipastikan tampil pincang tanpa Moise Kean akibat cedera pergelangan kaki, sementara Albert Gudmundsson dan Roberto Piccoli dilaporkan belum fit sepenuhnya.