As Juventus came out of the tunnel to begin the second half Saturday night, Thiago Motta was asked what his team needed to do to stay in front of the current league leaders. Having just taken the lead before the halftime break, Motta told the DAZN sideline reporter that Juve simply needed to continue what they had done in the first half — an opening 45 minutes that was certainly eventful even before his team went in front.
One thing that didn’t take long to see: the Juventus of the second half was very much not like the one that went into the half.
And you combine that with what had to be a classic kind of Antonio Conte halftime talk, and you have what played out over the course of the next 45 minutes in Naples.
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