There have been a lot of constant reoccurrences during this [Juventus](https://www.blackwhitereadallover.com) season — and there’s been plenty of them that haven’t been very good whatsoever. Before the recent maangerial change, we’ve seen plenty of issues with many of them still nowhere close to being resolved.
But one of the biggest constants has been the injuries that Juve have suffered at the back. It hasn’t been just one or two major injuries, either. It’s been a multitude of injuries on top of a pair of season-ending knee injuries that occurred all of six weeks apart back in the fall.
From early October until the final matchday in March, Juventus has seen at least one defender go down with some sort of injury — and many of them have cost them weeks, if not months, on the sidelines. It has added up to something that we’ve rarely seen at the club in recent years, a kind of total scramble to figure out what to do at the back for former manager Thiago Motta as well as a January transfer window that saw multiple defenders arrive on loan simply because it was needed to provide some sort of depth.
That ain’t a joke, folks. Ever since the fall months arrived in October, we’ve seen a Juventus central defender or fullback suffer some sort of injury that has put their respective seasons on hold. We’ve got the proof right here ...
* **October:** Gleison Bremer suffers a season-ending torn ACL in Juventus’ comeback win over RB Leipzig in the Champions League.
* **November:** Juan Cabal suffers a season-ending torn ACL while on international duty with Colombia.
* **December:** Andrea Cambiaso suffers sprained ankle after blocking a shot in the first 10 minutes of Juventus’ draw with Bologna. It’s an injured ankle that is still bothersome more than three months later.
* **January:** Nicolo Savona develops pubalgia injury that suddenly sees his playing time decrease and may force him to have surgery over the summer.
* **January:** Pierre Kalulu suffers thigh muscle injury in the first half of the final Champions League league phase fixture against Benfica. It’s an injury that keeps the Frenchman out for a month.
* **February:** Renato Veiga, on loan from Chelsea, suffers a calf injury in the opening minutes of the decisive second leg of the UCL knockout phase against PSV Eindhoven. It keeps him out for three weeks.
* **March:** Federico Gatti will miss at least a month after suffering a compound fracture in his calf bone in the first half of Juve’s win over Genoa at the Allianz Stadium.
That’s a long list.
A very, very long list.
And it’s not even the entirety of what we’ve seen this season.
Over the course of the aforementioned six months above, it comes to a grand total of seven injuries to seven different players. No matter how you try and spin it, that’s a whole hell of a lot of injuries for any manager to try and cope with — especially one that was attempting to put in a whole different system than the man he took over for and with it being with an incredibly overhauled roster.
That is not an excuse and forgive Juve’s now-former manager for what took place over his short time in charge, of course. Every team has dealt with injuries over the course of the 2024-25 season. Although, maybe not as much as Juventus has ever since Bremer’s ACL first went pop and subsequently resulted in the Bianconeri’s best player suddenly being done for the season. It was not Motta’s fault that Juve went into the season with so few center backs thanks to Cristiano Giuntoli’s massive undertaking of a roster revamp. The same can’t necessarily be said about the falling out with Danilo that resulted in Juve having to add so many defenders during the January transfer window.
But all of it has added up to the amount of center back combinations that Motta was basically forced to use during his time as manager hitting double digits. If there had been more depth or one or two fewer injuries, maybe Juventus don’t need to sign somebody like Lloyd Kelly in January and that amount of money they will likely be sending to Newcastle on top of the loan fee they paid in the final hours of the winter transfer window could have been better allocated elsewhere. (Or, ya know, not even needed to be spent.)
It’s an issue that Igor Tudor will now have to deal with as well over the course of the final eight games of the Serie A campaign. He won’t have Gatti available for all of April, and that means it’s slim plickins for his new three-man backline. Not exactly what you want to hear knowing that Juve need as many points as possible to try and get back into the top four.