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On Sunday, Turin's "Juventus" team faces a real challenge. The team defending the "Serie A" champion title cannot afford to waste points and will compete against Bergamo's "Atalanta" club away. The task for coach Andrea Pirlo's pupils will be complicated by the absence of leader Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese, who complains of leg muscle pain, will have to rest, while his teammates will have to defy the unfavorable statistics. It has been calculated that this season, without C. Ronaldo, "Juventus" played six times and only managed to secure two victories - defeating Kiev's "Dynamo" (2:0) and SPAL teams (4:0). Meanwhile, they suffered a 0:2 defeat against "Barcelona" and played draws with "Crotone," "Hellas Verona," and "Benevento" (all 1:1).
