Following Sunday’s scoreless draw with Max Allegri and AC Milan, these two things are true about Juventus …

This is where things stand after when happened in Allegri’s first game back at the Allianz Stadium following his departure from the club he coached to five Serie A titles and a couple of Champions League final appearances. The state of the current squad doesn’t exactly feel all that much better than when Allegri left — and that was proof once again on Sunday as Juve struggled with more inconsistencies up front in the final third as well as errors that nearly cost them dearly and could have seen them suffer their first defeat of the 2025-26 season.

Plus, it always helps when your opponent misses a penalty like Christian Pulisic did in the 53rd minute to keep the game scoreless and give Juventus a chance to actually get the win over the subsequent 30-plus minutes.

But again, Juventus were far from a consistently threatening side against Allegri’s squad that has put up some impressive defensive numbers ever since their season-opening defeat against Cremonese. Whether it was that big Jonathan David stumble in the first half that saw one of Juve’s few chances up to that point go for naught or Mike Maignan’s big close-range save on Federico Gatti, it’s not like Igor Tudor’s side was putting a ton of pressure on the Milan defense.

Just on the face of it, is a draw against an in-form Milan side like they are right now a necessarily bad thing? No, despite Juve’s recent success in this matchup between the two historic rivals.

But when you pile on draw after draw after draw after draw and now a fifth straight draw, it becomes a little worrisome to say the least.

This Juventus team doesn’t necessarily feel like it’s made the progress that Tudor is saying they have from the last-gasp win over Inter to now this draw against Milan. It’s been a run n which the weaknesses and shortcomings of this squad have felt more prominent than what they’ve done consistently well. They are a combination of tired, not on the same page, basically whatever you can think of right now.

On this night, a predictably cagey matchup proved to be exactly that. Both teams struggled for a large swaths of the game to get attacking momentum going, with Juve really only having to sustain a big Milan push coming both before and after the PK miss by Pulisic. Other than that, it’s not like either goalkeeper was very busy, although both Maignan and Michele Di Gregorio had to make a few big saves apiece.

Ultimately, this night will be remembered more for what either team was unable to do in the final third more than anything else. That is especially true for a Juventus side that just feels like it’s still without too many ideas other than “Kenan Yildiz and/or Francisco Conceição need to do something cool for us to score.” Neither David nor the man who came on for him, Dusan Vlahovic, were all that involved at all. The best player on the field Sunday night was probably the oldest one, who is just out there casually dropping dimes to set up scoring chances for teammates in the 90th minute like it’s nothing.

There’s a lot for Tudor to think about during these next two weeks of the international break — especially since the later part of October isn’t going to get any easier domestically and in Europe.

No matter what, though, this will be a 90 or so minutes in which we can all probably say we will want to forget about as soon as possible during the international break. At least that’s how I feel all about that.

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