** Messina - Juventus

Fabio Capello said it many times: "The championship is still not closed" and almost to confirm what the coach said, this Saturday there will be a delicate challenge on the first game of the match-day. After the exciting win against Inter, Juventus will in fact be busy again on an away-match in Messina. The Sicilian team is now ranked 15th and comes from a defeat in Genova against Sampdoria. A false step that interrupted the positive trend that starter three match-days ago, on the occasion of the 1-0 home result against Cagliari.

It was at the San Filippo stadium that the Sicilians gained the highest number of points, thanks to two wins and seven draws. The defeats are only three: Messina is, among the teams occupying the medium-low position of the ranking, the one that lost the least and tied the most. In order to avoid being sucked up by the fight for salvation, Mutti's boys need to gain points in every occasions, even when it comes to facing the team ranked first. Next Saturday's will thus be a strongly emotional game, with Messina looking for a result that could re-launch the ambitions of the club, and Juventus focused to conquer the twenty-second seasonal win.


The first-leg match last October ended with Juventus winning 1-0. The critical goal was scored by Alessandro Del Piero, who made up a movie-style goal. He started from the three-quarters, four opponents left behind and a left-kick that beated Storari. Five months away from that challenge, Juventus is looking for another exciting success, in order to keep on staying there, at the top of the rank, with twelve points of advantage on the chasing teams.