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00:00 In the last four seasons, Milan, at the Turin Stadium, against Juventus, has won two games and two draws.
00:07 No defeat. Absolutely incredible, really.
00:10 The stadium of the long line of results from the nightmare has become the stadium of the warm caress, of the positive results.
00:18 It all started in October 2011, with Milan, who was strong, who was a favorite, who had the scudetto on his chest.
00:24 In the previous season, with what he himself had called a "chofeca", Reino Gattuso had scored to his great dear friend of the Berlin World Cup, Gigi Buffon, in Juventus-Milan, 1-0 for the Rossoneri.
00:37 It was the last game at the Turin City Stadium, which in the meantime had become an Olympic stadium thanks to the 2006 Winter Five Circles.
00:45 But years later, it seemed that a black and red cycle had begun, Juventus had to rebuild itself and it seemed that it would take a long time for the black and white team to return to the top level.
00:55 Instead, with important changes on the pitch, on the bench and in the management, the black and white team was good at opening the gap, in the open.
01:04 Last game at the City Stadium, first game at the stadium, the start of the defeat series.
01:10 The one who really managed to create the foundations of the nightmare of the stadium for Milan was Claudio Marchisio, a boy who has always played for Juventus,
01:18 who became a black and white in 1993, in the youth teams, and left the first team in 2018. 25 years of Juventus for him.
01:27 That evening, early October 2011, the Milan champion of Italy was a bit incomplete, a bit down, the same Ibra kept the point, played, but he was not at his best.
01:36 It was so that after many black and white attacks, the result at minute 88 was still 0-0, but just at minute 88, and then at minute 93, the double arrived, Claudio Marchisio's 1-2.
01:50 The first real challenge glove launched by the new Juventus to the Milan of the many champions and the many outclassed in the team.
01:57 From that precise moment on, the stadium became a black and white fortress for many years. For eight years, Juventus always victorious and Milan always defeated.
02:08 Even when it seemed that the rhythm was not high, even when it seemed that it did not pull the wind in the opposite direction,
02:15 even when it seemed that the challenge between Juventus and Milan at the Turin Stadium could end on a quiet and calm 0-0,
02:23 here that almost inevitably, almost inexorably, in essence inevitably, at a certain point, Juventus' goal arrived.
02:32 Like in the spring of 2013, with the black and white practically already certain of their title of champion of Italy,
02:39 and with the red and black who were climbing the table to place themselves steadily in one of the useful places for the qualification to the Champions League of the following year.
02:48 In short, it had the whole air of being a Juventus-Milan from 0-0, a balanced Juventus-Milan, a Juventus-Milan with a calm game.
02:57 And instead, at a certain point, suddenly, an exit from the goalkeeper of Milan, Marco Amelia, the fall of Asamoah, and from one moment to the next, the penalty transformed by Arturo Vidal.
03:07 It was a fate that was consolidating, that was laying the foundations, it was an inevitable closure of the games.
03:15 Everything seemed written even before it started.
03:19 Not only Claudio Marchisio, also Andrea Pirlo had become a regular of the goals and assists against Milan.
03:27 Many assists, goal 1 in October 2013, when to take advantage of the red and black was Sulley Muntari.
03:36 Then three goals for Juventus and then again goal for Muntari in the 90th with Milan trying to overturn the fate in the minutes of recovery, even if nothing to do, 3-2 for Juventus.
03:47 In the line also came the games of the arbitral controversies, for example in February 2015 Juventus-Milan 3-1, a controversial position of possible outplay of Carlito Stevez, which made the Milanese leaders angry, a lot.
04:01 And so much so that after that challenge of Turin at the stadium between Juventus and Milan, there was a lot of talk, there was a lot of controversy about geometry, geometric teams, goniometers, triangles and various amenities.
04:13 Big controversies also in the Juventus-Milan return to the championship 2016-2017, after the goals of Benatia for Juventus and Carlos Bacca for Milan seemed over,
04:23 when a ball that arrived on the arm attached to the body of then Milanista Mattia De Sciglio, led the coach to whistle the penalty for Juventus.
04:32 Controversial outbursts with Gigi Odonnarumma who left the field screaming.
04:36 In the nine years of nightmare at the stadium for Milan, always defeated, there were also goals under both flags and with both shirts by Leonardo Bonucci,
04:47 who scored with the black and white shirt against Milan in the 2014-2015 championship and who scored with the red and black shirt against Juventus in the 2017-2018 championship,
04:58 so goal with alternate shirts for Bonucci, but Juventus always victorious, always with the same score 3-1 in 2015, 3-1 in 2018.
05:06 But the real flagellum, the real appointment with the defeat for Milan at the Turin Stadium, would then have had a name and a surname, always stable in time.
05:17 The face and the looks, the features of Paolo Di Bala.
05:22 Just think that for five consecutive championships, against various coachs, red and black, who alternated, Di Bala, always him, had always scored against Milan in Turin.
05:33 The first to do so was Sinisa Mihailovic in the first half of the 2015-2016 championship.
05:40 That game also seemed to go towards 0-0, but at a certain point Di Bala scored with a ball to the end of the post.
05:46 The same thing in the 2016-2017 championship. The penalty of the controversy at the minute 97 turns it into the black and white joy.
05:54 The Argentine champion would have scored again in the next championship, 2017-2018, and in 2019, when Rino Gattuso would have returned to the Milan bench, Di Bala always scored in time.
06:07 And goal also against Milan coached by Stefano Pioli, 2019-2020 championship, a game that seemed to go towards 0-0, but Cristiano Ronaldo came out and he scored, and the whites won 1-0.
06:20 Di Bala, a name, a torture.
06:22 But after the nine consecutive victories of Juventus against Milan at the stadium, and after the fixed appointment with Di Bala's goal in favour of the opponents, something changes.
06:38 Almost by magic, almost by an invisible, just whispered delivery. As soon as the black and white star of Paolo Di Bala is eclipsed, the positive period of Milan begins in that same stadium, under that same sky, between those same doors.
06:54 Exactly on May 9, 2021, Juventus-Milan is there. And the historians remembered May 9. On that same date, another Juventus-Milan was played in 1999. Milan in the fight for the Scudetto, and at the Alps stadium, they celebrate, hand in hand, Fonimir Boban and Jorge Uea, 2-0 for Milan.
07:13 On May 9, 2021, again, black and white, against Torino. Both teams were fighting for a place in the Champions League for the next season. For Milan, it was very tough, Juve had a slight advantage.
07:28 Ibra had a knee injury, the team was not in an exceptional moment, but with the tactical insight of Stefano Pioli, Milan did it. Here is his first win at the stadium, more than ten years after the double of Marchisio. 4-4-1-1, the module with Brahim Diaz, lined up under the goal, behind Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
07:48 And it is the Malagueño who scores the first goal for the Red-Black. Then, however, he misses the penalty and whispers "Ari, here it is, the curse of the stadium". And instead, no, Rebic scores. Tomori also scores.
08:02 Since that evening, Milan has not lost at the stadium, black and white. He had not even lost in the Coppa Italia 0-0 in the semi-final of the June 2020 return post-Covid, at Porte Chiuse. Elimination in the semi-final for the Red-Blacks after the 1-1 of the first leg, but in the meantime, in Torino, Milan had not lost, despite having played 10-11 for most of the game.
08:23 Same thing in September 2021. Ready, go, immediately goal for Juventus. Morata on the run and Morata goal. Here it is, here it is, the curse of the stadium, he thought. Morata, one of the years of Di Bala, now it's hard. And instead, Ante Rebic scores. And Milan also takes the victory in the final of the race. It's not over.
08:42 The feeling with the historical dates is renewed. May 28, 2003. What a date! A crazy date, 20 years after May 28, 2003. The night of the only all-Italian final of the Champions League won by Milan at the Manchester Stadium, the Old Trafford, against Juventus, with penalty kicks.
09:00 And in that stadium he had played many times, both with Arsenal's shirt and with Chelsea's shirt, a certain Olivier Giroud. It's up to Oli to score. The goal of 1-0 and Milan wins a black and white at the stadium. With a great cross from Calabria, happy that evening for the Champions League qualification, and the comment, in turn, satisfied by Stefano Pioli.
09:21 I remember the team that for the first time two years ago, three years ago, Milan had won here at Juventus Stadium and so there was a possibility to re-impose our goal. I think it's a satisfaction for me as a player to beat such an important opponent, as strong as Juventus, and to have won a place in the Champions League even for the next year.
09:42 The last match not lost by Milan in Turin against Juventus is April 2024, still at the stadium. In this case, the goalkeeper for everything was Marcos Portiello for Milan. Often the challenges between Rossoneri and Bianconeri were anomalous, atypical for goalkeepers.
09:58 For example, in October 2005, in San Siro, absent Buffon in Juventus due to an injury, here are intestinal problems prepared for Abbiati, at the time Juventino. Chimenti plays, the third goalkeeper. The Rossoneri win 3-1.
10:13 Also in 2013, when Juventus won the Milan game, the goalkeeper was changed. Christian Abbiati had started the match, but after 14 minutes Marco Amelia had come in. Eleven years later, another substitution between the Rossoneri goalkeepers, even with the match not yet started.
10:34 The warm-up was the moment when Marcos Portiello came back to Juventus. The challenge of the first leg, in fact, in San Siro, that of October 22, had to be his match. Mike Mignana had been expelled to Genoa in the last match before the international break in October and it was his turn. But things went differently.
10:53 Nothing Sportiello. Only on December 5, 2023, Marcos Portiello would have returned to work on the pitch. The second goalkeeper Rossonero, who dreamed of playing for Juventus, had been injured a few days earlier, on October 18, during the break, a few days before the big challenge.
11:08 Injury to the left calf and 10 days of pain before a new magnetic resonance. It was thought that the break could last a long time and in fact it was. But the ex-Atalanta had started to see the light at the end of the tunnel in the Christmas month of 2023.
11:25 A lot of work after a delicate injury and then the return to the pitch. And Juventus, called Desiderio, has come back to cross its path. In the return to Turin challenge, more than six months after the departure of San Siro, Mike Mignana was present in the official distinction. But a resentment to the adductor in the warm-up blocked the French goalkeeper and it was his turn, to Marco, the great absence of the departure.
11:48 And Sportiello in goal has gone. From the first minute, he also wanted to leave behind the three goals suffered by the whole team in Reggio Emilia against Sassuolo. And at the stadium, more than three saves have arrived from the goalkeeper, the number one of Desio, who had already entered the hearts of the Milanese fans in the Champions League, against Newcastle.
12:07 On Vlaovic, on Kostic, on Milik, the three great saves of Marcos Portiello, with the time of the departure, recovered, on the return.
12:16 You always have to be ready for a goalkeeper, it's a little different. If I can afford it, it's a little more difficult. But lately, in recent years, it has happened to me often. So, to tell you the truth, I'm quite prepared for that.
12:30 But it was an important and delicate game. I'm happy with my performance. I didn't play much apart from Sassuolo. A few weeks ago I didn't play for a long time after the injury. So it went well.
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