Viola in view

Massimiliano Allegri’s men spent Thursday evening’s training session in the atmospheric setting of Juventus Stadium just two days before they kick off their campaign in earnest against Fiorentina in the awe-inspiring arena.

After warming up under the lights, the Bianconeri focused on tactics for the visit of Paulo Sousa’s Viola before ramping things up a gear or two with a practice game.

Allegri and company will fine-tune their preparations for Saturday night’s Serie A curtain-raiser with another workout tomorrow afternoon, this time in Vinovo following the boss’ pre-match press conference at the club’s Media Center at 13.00 CEST, for which fans can follow live tweets on Juventus’ official English language Twitter profile, @juventusfcen.