Here we are, Massimiliano Allegri has been unveiled as the new Juventus manager…again.

The Italian has returned from his two-year hiatus to take over from Andrea Pirlo, and he’ll be hoping to replicate some of the unprecedented success he enjoyed during his first reign between 2014 and 2019.

Here are some of his best moments from his first spell in charge.

Allegri was fortunate enough to inherit a defence which was arguably Europe’s scariest at the time, but injury issues meant he didn’t get to enjoy it for almost an entire season.

When Juve travelled to Palermo in March 2015, Allegri finally got his first taste of the famous ‚BBC‘ defence – the trio of Andrea Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini.

Unsurprisingly, they kept a clean sheet that day and Juve never looked back.

It’s safe to say Allegri faced a bit of scepticism when he first arrived at Juve. This was the former AC Milan boss who had just led his once-mighty Rossoneri to eighth in the previous season, and he was now expected to replace serial winner Antonio Conte. No pressure.

Despite many fans believing he couldn’t do it, Allegri remained focused on the job at hand and eventually won those supporters over by delivering the team’s fourth straight Serie A title in his debut season.

It was a comfortable victory as well, with Juve sealing the title with four games to go and finishing a whopping 17 points clear of second-placed Roma.

If anyone still had doubts over Allegri’s pedigree, Juve’s return to the Champions League final in May 2015 helped address that.

12 years since their last final, Juve managed to dispatch of Real Madrid to the tune of a 3-2 aggregate victory which saw Alvaro Morata come back to haunt his former employers.

It was a great day for Juve, so we don’t need to talk about how they lost 3-1 in the final to Barcelona, do we?

For all of Conte’s league success with Juve, he could never get over the line in the Coppa Italia. Conte’s side reached the 2012 final, but that was as good as it got.

Under Allegri, that narrative changed immediately as Juve romped to cup glory, 18 days after winning the title and seven days after booking a spot in the Champions League final. Things were looking good.

Their run to the final included thumping victories over Verona and Fiorentina, before Lazio fell 2-1 in the grand finale.

Banger of a free-kick from @paulpogba ?
Solo finish from @SamiKhedira ?
Deadly double from @AlvaroMorata ✖️2️⃣

Not a bad #ToroJuve in 2015/16 ? pic.twitter.com/TE8pgHWYRO

— JuventusFC (@juventusfcen) November 2, 2019

The Allegri bubble looked to have burst early in his second season. Ten games in and Juve were sat down in 12th in the table, having won just three games. It was a nightmare and it was going to take something special to wake Juve up.

A 26-game unbeaten streak turned out to be the perfect medicine.

Juve would go on to win 24 of their next 26 matches, with a 0-0 draw with Bologna and a 2-0 defeat to Verona (which came after they had already been crowned champions) the only blotches on an otherwise perfect run of form.

? Bonucci’s ball
? Sandro’s cross
? Higuain’s touch
? Mandzukic’s finish

What a goal we’ve just witnessed…#UCLFinal pic.twitter.com/dTeYQHXqBh

— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) June 3, 2017

The 2016/17 season saw Allegri guide Juve to their second European final in just three seasons, and although this one ended in defeat as well, the Italian side did offer up one of the best goals the Champions League has ever seen.

Seven minutes after Cristiano Ronaldo had opened the scoring for Real Madrid, Mario Mandzukic responded with a worldie of a bicycle kick from towards the edge of the penalty area that looped over Keylor Navas and into the back of the net with pinpoint precision.

Real bagged three second-half goals to win the trophy, but Mandzukic provided the best moment of the game without a doubt.

Smashing records was a regular part of life for Allegri, whose greatest claim to fame came as he led Juve to their fourth straight league/cup double in 2018.

They had to work incredibly hard in the league, fending off fierce competition from Maurizio Sarri and the Napoli side widely seen as the biggest threat to Juve over the past decade, but their Coppa Italia triumph came a little easier.

Atalanta did their best in the semi-final but were powerless to stop the Allegri machine, and Juve went on to dismantle his former side AC Milan in the final with a thumping 4-0 victory.

Juve stopped time for a moment in July 2018 when they struck a £100m deal to sign Ronaldo from Real, signalling their intent to the rest of the world that they meant serious business.

It was a sign of Juve’s faith in Allegri that they were prepared to give him such an expensive toy to play with, and the boss didn’t disappoint as he brought 28 goals and 11 assists out of the Portugal international to win even more silverware.

In hindsight, signing Ronaldo hasn’t gone as perfectly as Juve might have hoped, but you can blame the bigwigs in the boardroom for that, not Allegri.

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