This will be a great test to see how much each team has matured over their past 6-12 months respectively.
It seems we've taken great confidence from a strong CL campaign last season despite the craziness of 12 league losses. juve also seem to have stabilized on what was an even crazier season for them featuring a dismal European campaign and umpteen controversies.
The only question is whether our rediscovered self-confidence and recent European pedigree enough to overcome the mental block we have against juve as well as the haphazard, yet surprisingly effective repair job Allegri has done on this juve side.
If both teams played "at their best", there's no question we should win. We are hands down the better footballing side, without question. Player by player, I think we are much better as well. Like who the fuck is taking fucking Kean or Weah, Miretti, Cambiaso, McKennie or Gatti over the likes of Thuram, Frattesi, Augusto or Pavard? Get fucked seriously.
Having said that, it's almost irrelevant because we never play at our best against these cancer rats. In 20 years I can barely recall a handful of games where we ever played anything near it. The last time we convincingly outplayed them was in the scudetto season under Conte. If Lautaro hadn't been a spastic that day we could've won 5-0.
I'd like to believe we have the mentality, tactical nous, and personnel to overcome this juve. Despite Allegri's impressive terrorist activities, this is the worst juve squad in the last 10 years. That said, there's too much experience for me to think we'll rise to the occasion (like a phoenix) and magically rip them apart 4-0 in some footballing symphony.
So I'm taking either a snoozefest 0-0 draw or a disgusting 1-0 juve win mired in controversy where we play like absolute trash, but the biggest talking point of the game is the ref either awarding juve a controversial penalty, controversially not awarding us a penalty, or failing to spot an obvious juve foul in the build-up to a goal, or failing to send off a juve player for an obvious second yellow offence etc etc. you all fucking know the deal.