We are in the twentieth day of Serie A, and the Turin standings read eighth place. A convenient position that doesn’t make Ivan Jurić feel very calm.
We are in the twentieth day of Serie A, and the Turin standings read eighth place. A convenient position, which does not make Ivan Jurić feel very calm. Yes, because despite the placement in the upper part of the standings, the points away from sixteenth Sassuolo are only 7. In short, not enough to sleep peacefully. Also considering that the second part of the season could hide some pitfalls.
It is true, however, that Toro can aim for the Conference League: this is the opinion of foreign betting sites analyzed by calcioseriea.net. To be optimistic, in fact, the points away from sixth place are 10, and in the remaining eighteen days they can easily be reduced. Of course, it is not an easy undertaking, but the potential is there.
Jurić’s men have a scorecard that reads: 7 wins, 6 draws and 7 defeats; 21 goals scored and 22 conceded. The 27 points obtained are the result of 3 wins and 3 draws at home (12 points) plus 4 wins and 3 away draws (15 points). If they manage to repeat themselves in the second round they could get the same points as last season. Which would mean, however, tenth place and no European cup. To get there, much more would be needed.
At the end of the 2021-22 championship, there were 50 points in the standings, with 13 wins, 11 draws and 14 defeats. 46 goals scored and 41 conceded. A perfect balance between the first and second round, made up of 25 points each, but an imbalance between the points obtained at home (29) and away (21). However, not a bad season if we consider the previous one.
The 2020-21 championship was probably the worst of the last ten years in the history of Turin: 17th place in the standings just 4 points from relegation; 7 games won, 16 drawn and 15 lost; 50 goals scored and 69 conceded. A start to the championship that brought only 14 points in the first round and the exemption of Marco Gianpaolo. Thanks to the change of Davide Nicola, ex-granata in 2005-06, Toro leaves the relegation zone and finds salvation a day early. There will be 23 points obtained after the halfway point.
The 2019-20 season is another one to forget: 16th place finish, with 11 wins, 7 draws and 20 defeats; 46 goals scored and 68 conceded. Walter Mazzarri sits on the bench until the 22nd matchday, in place of him Moreno Longo until the end of the championship. And yet, the premises at the beginning of the season seemed very good: the first round ends in eighth position with 27 points, one less than sixth place which means Europa League preliminaries. Then total darkness. The second round will bring only 13 points, the result of 3 wins, 4 draws and 9 defeats.
If we want to find a connection between past seasons and the current one, one would hope that Toro will be able to repeat the trend of the past season and therefore reach 52 points. A mid-table condition which, all in all, belongs to him but which would not satisfy the desire for Europe of his fans. The fear, on the other hand, is not to repeat the disastrous 2019-20 season, and thus see all the work done so far wasted. However, the coach has shown that he knows his stuff, and we believe that he can repeat, if not improve on, what he showed last season.
The next matches on the calendar include Udinese, Milan, Cremonese and then the derby with Juventus on 28 February. Four games that could tell us a lot about the continuation of the championship.
