It was a little less than month ago in which I posted an article on this here website with the following title: “This is Juventus’ best start to a Serie A season since the last year of Max Allegri 1.0.” It was a result of three straight wins to start the 2025-26 season, with the most recent of which coming in the wild 4-3 victory over Inter Milan in the first Derby d’Italia of the new campaign.
The catch was that it was just the first three games in a long season, with a very obvious question of “Can
they keep it going?” hanging over everything.
Wellllllllllllllllllll …
While three straight wins to begin the season was something that we hadn’t seen in a few years, you can’t exactly say the same thing about how things have gone since that point. Igor Tudor’s squad have recorded three consecutive draws following the thrilling win over Inter last month, with five straight draws in all competitions being one of the biggest sticking points as we sit here in the early days of the October international break. And with those draws comes this little piece of information that is not the best of omens when it comes to things: it’s the fact that Juve now have just as many points as they did last season with Thiago Motta through the first six Serie A fixtures.
That’s right, folks. As our friends at ilbianconero.com tell us, that numbers don’t lie.
- Juventus points under Thiago Motta through the first six Serie A games: 12
- Juventus points under Igor Tudor through the first six Serie A games: 12
Yeesh, is it getting a little hot in here? Because that omen … that ain’t good.
That’s the funny thing about this time of year, right? You can go from having one of the best starts to a season in close to a decade after three weeks, then all of a month and three more games later it’s comparable to a season that was widely considered a massive disappointment and had a manager who was supposed to be the main character in a new project but was ultimately fired after just 10 months.
The man who replaced Motta was Tudor, who is now dealing with his own issues with this squad as they currently sit in fifth place and level on 12 points with the same Inter squad they beat in the first fixture out of the September international break.
But, a lot like last season, the race for the top four and one of Italy’s Champions League spots is going to be a heated battle. Napoli aren’t showing signs of slowing down during the early days of their title defense. Roma, AC Milan and Inter — all clubs with new coaches — are sitting second through fourth, respectively. Juventus are just ahead of one of the clubs in which one of their five straight draws in all competitions came against, Atalanta.
Sure, it’s just six games and things can change quickly this time of the season, but things are already crowded at the top of the table. The last thing Juventus can afford is to continue to drop points and fall even further behind not just the league leaders but also the other contenders for the top four.
It’s looking to be just as competitive as it was last season. So if Juventus continue on this trend of lots of draws and a point total that resembles what the club did a season ago, then it could be another interesting spring for the man who is managing at Juventus.
