Juventus recover the lead of the Calcio

Juventus squad celebrating their victory against Milan

For more than half of the season a huge surprise was happening in the Italian Legue as Napoli was leading the table and not Juventus.

La Vecchia Signora, as Juventus is called in Italy, is by far the most successful team of that country during the last few years. Proof of that, they have won in the past 6 years more than 10 local titles, including 6 consecutive championships of the 'Serie A', the professional league of Italy. In addition, they have first level team with recognized players like Gonzalo Higuaín and Paulo Dybala from Argentina, Gianluigi Buffon and Giorgio Chiellini from Italy and Juan Guillermo Cuadrado from Colombia. It was very shocking, therefore, to see that Juventus was not leading the table having such a good squad.

It must be said that Juventus was playing well and that they weren't far from the lead, they were just 1 point away from Napoli. However, it must also be said that The Light Blues were having incredible performances with high percentages of ball possession, many completed passes during the games, and amazing goals, scored by their brilliant forwards: Lorenzo Insigne, Jose Maria Callejón and Dries Mertens.

There were 2 consecutive turning points that gave Juventus the tip of the standings- a defeat and a draw from Napoli. After having lost at home 4-2 against Roma, and tying without goals with Inter at their stadium, Juventus took advantage of the situation by winning their corresponding matches taking a 4 points advantage over their rival.

Still missing 8 games in the tournament, including an epic clash between Juventus and Napoli, the faith of the Serie A is not sentenced yet. Thus, we can expect that the end of the season in Italy is going to be crazy.