Seven rounds into the Serie A season, Juventus's numbers have become the club's sorest subject. Under Luciano Spalletti, the Bianconeri have collected 11 points, with defeats to Lazio and Sassuolo already on the record. A year earlier, the same opening stretch had produced one point more under Igor Tudor, the Croatian who held the job before him. By that basic count, the current coach has started worse than the man he replaced. The club now sits eight points off the top of the table. Management still voices confidence in Spalletti, with the caveat that this support holds only for the moment. Every dropped point between now and winter feeds the argument that the numbers, however harsh, do not lie.