When you’ve won eight successive Serie A titles, the entire league is trying to bring you back to earth, as is the case with Juventus. The Old Lady’s top flight hegemony has hardly been challenged for the better part of a decade as they’ve always found ways to wear out the chasing pack.
Their stranglehold came under threat in 2017-18 when Napoli, managed by Maurizio Sarri, ran Massimiliano Allegri’s troops close, with Gli Azzurri claiming 91 points to Juve's 95.
That was the closest and most entertaining title race in Italy in about a decade, but Sarri’s departure to Chelsea, meant Napoli couldn’t push Allegri's side in 2018-19 like they did the previous year.