Out Rovella, in Thuram: a revelation in Lazio-Juve
Nicolò, who will be redeemed by the Biancocelesti at the end of the season, is the ex who is looking for 'revenge' in the decisive match for qualification for the next Champions League
TURIN - Same role. Same age . And same market value, more or less, skyrocketed in a season that is seeing them among the major protagonists of their team. No, no riddle, the answer is served: the identikits are those that lead to Nicolò Rovella and Khephren Thuram . Both midfielders, both born in 2001. And both leaders - there in the nerve center of the field - respectively of Lazio and Juventus, called to mirror themselves tomorrow afternoon at the Olimpico in a challenge that will put a generous slice of the Champions cake up for grabs. The contest in the Capitoline vortex, between the International tennis tournament and the election of the new Pope, will also and above all pass through their feet.
But role and age are not the only points that unite the careers of the blue and the transalpine, also linked by the black and white colors. For Rovella, Juventus represents a past spent in the blink of an eye , in those 24 minutes divided into three appearances that inaugurated and at the same time concluded his adventure in Turin, in the summer of 2022, before being loaned to Monza. In the case of Thuram, however, the black and white shirt is present and above all future , cornerstone of the current group led by Tudor and already a certainty of the team that after the Club World Cup will be in the hands of who knows who. At Continassa, the former was sacrificed on the altar of the budget in exchange for a 17 million proposal from Lazio, a two-year loan with redemption that will officially start at the end of this championship, while the latter was snatched from Nice, just one year before his contract expires, for 20 million euros. In short, the two midfielders are also united by the value of the operations that involved them, the value of the transfer fee which has already almost doubled in both cases.
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Rovella and Thuram, therefore, will cross studs tomorrow afternoon with different moods, but the same desire to continue the long sprint towards fourth place. The young Lombard will retain a healthy desire for revenge against the black and white club , which had invested so much to bring him to Turin from Genoa in 2021. His French peer will intend to continue the magical moment that is seeing him wear the role of leader. It is difficult to tip the scales to one side or the other in the evaluation of the goodness of the double operation with which Juventus, in fact, "exchanged" the first for the second . Also because the Lazio player is more of a man of order and geometry, while the transalpine uses bursts and physical strength to make an impact in front of goal: this is demonstrated by the five goals and six assists recorded so far, while his "colleague" is still dry of goals. What remains, if anything, is the goodness of the work of Juventus scouting, in both circumstances. Rovella on one side, Thuram on the other. Not necessarily one better than the other, not necessarily a right and a wrong operation. But tomorrow's match , one way or the other, will deliver a partial verdict on the dispute. Unless there is a draw that will force both to look, with a pinch of apprehension , at the results of Bologna and Roma.
TURIN - Same role. Same age . And same market value, more or less, skyrocketed in a season that is seeing them among the major protagonists of their team. No, no riddle, the answer is served: the identikits are those that lead to Nicolò Rovella and Khephren Thuram . Both midfielders, both born in 2001. And both leaders - there in the nerve center of the field - respectively of Lazio and Juventus, called to mirror themselves tomorrow afternoon at the Olimpico in a challenge that will put a generous slice of the Champions cake up for grabs. The contest in the Capitoline vortex, between the International tennis tournament and the election of the new Pope, will also and above all pass through their feet.
But role and age are not the only points that unite the careers of the blue and the transalpine, also linked by the black and white colors. For Rovella, Juventus represents a past spent in the blink of an eye , in those 24 minutes divided into three appearances that inaugurated and at the same time concluded his adventure in Turin, in the summer of 2022, before being loaned to Monza. In the case of Thuram, however, the black and white shirt is present and above all future , cornerstone of the current group led by Tudor and already a certainty of the team that after the Club World Cup will be in the hands of who knows who. At Continassa, the former was sacrificed on the altar of the budget in exchange for a 17 million proposal from Lazio, a two-year loan with redemption that will officially start at the end of this championship, while the latter was snatched from Nice, just one year before his contract expires, for 20 million euros. In short, the two midfielders are also united by the value of the operations that involved them, the value of the transfer fee which has already almost doubled in both cases.
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