​Juventus midfielder Kerim Alajbegovic (17) celebrates with his teammates after scoring his goal to make it 1-0 during the Serie A football match n.10 JUVENTUS vs NAPOLI, at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, Piedmont, Italy, on November 1, 2026. (Photo by Matteo Bottanelli/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | NurPhoto via Getty Images As you could probably understand, I was rather worried about how the final hours of Juventus’ 129th birthday might actually go. Not because of who they were playing, but mostly because of what they did the last time they took the field. They looked like a team that was on the cusp of even more badness — which, in all fairness, could still be the case a month or two from now.But on this night, Juventus showed they still have some fight in them.You combine that fight and mindset with two absolute beauties of goals from Kerim Alajbegović and Jérémie Boga, Juventus actually showed that they can function as an actual team compared to the performance from midweek in Genoa. The 2-0 win on Sunday night over Napoli and old friend (yet suspended) Max Allegri does not fix the problems that we’ve seen for much of this season, but considering this team spent the last couple of days in ritiro, was called out in a team meeting by their still-new CEO and had a certain section of the fan base protesting their recent efforts in the couple of hours leading up to kickoff.Those goals, though.Those beautiful, beautiful goals.Just when you were waiting for somebody in that black and white home kit to do something on a night when Juveentus’ two strikers struggled mightily to do much of anything in front of goal, leave it to a young man who turned 19 years old all of six weeks ago to deliver this kind of goal when his team desperately needed it.Just look at that strike. For as good as Boga’s goal was to seal the win, the way Alajbegović struck that ball and sent it to a place where Napoli goalkeeper Alex Meret had absolutely no chance was simply lovely. Then you get the kiss off the far post and just realize how much velocity the ball had on it as he bounced across the goal line and into the other side of the net, it’s highly unlikely that he could have hit the ball any better than he did.And, again, Juventus needed that.Boy, did they need that.One win over a Napoli team that has had its own struggles and was without two of its most important pieces, Stanislav Lobotka (injury) and Rasmus Højlund (illness), won’t be the thing that suddenly makes us believe that Juventus are a well-oiled machine again. As much as Juventus were the better side for much of Sunday night’s game, this was a scoreless affair until the 70th minute. Juve defended well for much of the night, but they also struggled to test Meret for much of this game. Even as they saw Napoli have much of the possession for large portions of the game, Juve were the team who were getting into the box more, causing more trouble for the opposing defense but not actually testing th