The true centre-forward that Luciano Spalletti requested never quite arrived. Kolo Muani and Woltemade — the two market choices tasked with relaunching an attack left without Vlahović and scarred by a disappointing season from David and Openda — have opened their accounts in the Europa League but remain goalless in Serie A and do not appear to have the characteristics of an out-and-out top scorer. Yıldız is injured. Boga is injured. And yet, in the opening six competitive matches of the season, Juventus have found an answer that no statistical analysis of the squad could have predicted with confidence: a goals cooperative. In five Serie A matches and one Europa League fixture, they have used ten different scorers to produce thirteen goals.
The Numbers in Full — Second in Europe Behind Only Brighton
The statistic that makes this genuinely extraordinary is confirmed by the Corriere dello Sport’s cross-European data. In all of European football’s top leagues, only one club has achieved a wider distribution of goals than Juventus’s ten different scorers: Brighton, who have used eleven different goalscorers across seven matches and twenty goals.
The comparison with other major European clubs is striking. Bayern Munich, Manchester City, Atlético Madrid, and Lyon have all used nine different scorers — behind Juventus’s ten. Inter, Serie A’s leaders with sixteen goals from six matches, have achieved that superior total with nine different scorers. Roma’s fifteen goals come from seven different sources, with Malen responsible for six of them in the league alone. Lazio, the third Serie A co-leader alongside Como and Frosinone, have used five different scorers for their eight league goals.
The Ten Scorers — and What the List Says About This Juventus
The full list of Juventus’s ten scorers in the opening six competitive matches reveals a squad in which goals are emerging from every position, every profile, and every functional category. Defenders have scored — Bremer twice from set pieces, Gatti once from a long throw, Çelik once from a full-back surge in the Europa League. Midfielders have scored — Koopmeiners from the bench against Parma. Wide attackers have scored — González twice, Conceição once. The late-arrival substitute has scored — Zhegrova twice from the bench at Sassuolo, though in defeat. And the strikers have scored — Kolo Muani once in the Europa League, Woltemade once from the penalty spot.
The Absence of a Capocannoniere — and Why It Has Not Hurt
The most intellectually interesting dimension of Il Corriere dello Sport’s analysis is what the ten-scorer statistic says about this Juventus’s structural identity. In the years of Ronaldo — who scored 81 goals in three seasons — and Vlahović — who contributed 57 goals in four seasons — the club relied on a single dominant offensive personality around whom everything else was organised. That dependency produced efficiency in one sense and vulnerability in another: when the top scorer was neutralised, the team’s attacking threat diminished proportionally.
This Juventus, as Filippo Bonsignore argues, has found a different answer. The absence of a Cristiano Ronaldo is not a problem to be solved through emergency recruitment — it is a philosophical orientation that Spalletti has deliberately built and that the squad has embraced with genuine collective enthusiasm. When no single player is expected to score, the pressure is shared and the defensive task for opponents is immeasurably complicated. When the goals can come from anywhere — from the centre-back at a corner, from the substitute left winger, from the right-back surging forward in Europe — the attacking threat never goes away simply because one player is having a difficult day.
Ten scorers in six matches. Only Brighton have been more democratic in Europe. The cooperative has found its formula.
