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The Italian hegemony Juventus achieved a difficult victory with 2: 1 at home against the rival of the city of Turin in a match of the tenth round of Serie A.
The Bulls took the lead in the 9th minute through Nicola N’Kulu. Then the guests missed good opportunities to double the lead, and after half-time Juan Cuadrado’s goal was annulled by an ambush. The Old Woman tied in the 78th minute through Weston McKenna, and in the end Leonardo Bonucci brought dramatic success.
Thus, Juve saved another penalty shoot-out at Calcium and occupied the 2nd place in the standings with 20 points, but also with one more game than Inter and Sassuolo, who add 18 points each. Torino remains in the relegation zone with 6 points.
Interestingly, Juventus won the Derby della Mole with a late goal for the third time in 6 years. In all three cases the result was 2: 1, and in 2015 the team was in a similar situation to the current one, but with a long winning streak again. won the Scudetto. In general, in the last 7 matches at the “Old Lady”, the hosts always score goals after the 80th minute.
Andrea Pirlo made five changes to his squad, compared to a 3-0 win over Dynamo Kyiv in the Champions League. The most significant absences were those of Merich Demiral and Alex Sandro, injured. Juan Cuadrado and Danilo acted as wingers. Dejan Kulushevski moved to the left wing while Adrien Rabio played in the middle of the field.
Paulo Dybala is expected to take the place of the penalized Álvaro Morata in attack. Turin started in a 3-5-2 scheme with forwards Andrea Belotti and Simone Zaza. Before the match, Ronaldo received his Serie A Player of the Month award as well as a special jersey from club president Andrea Agnelli for goal №750 in his career.
In the first half, Juventus pressed, but Torino scored and created dangerous situations.
The Bulls took the lead in the 9th minute. After a corner kick, Cristiano Ronaldo missed Nicolas N’Culu, who beat Voischech Szczesny 1-0 with a diagonal kick.
The champions launched attacks immediately, but in the 13th minute they almost conceded a second goal. Simone Zaza came face to face with the goalkeeper, but Schesni stopped the forward with great intervention.
Then Juve attacked, but could not make an accurate shot on Salvatore Sirigu. Later, Carol Linetti could fend for herself against Schesny at another counter in Turin. But the only Bianconeri player to play at that level, Matthias de Licht, stopped him with a magnificent intervention.
After just over half an hour of play, Ronaldo crossed well in front of the goal, but Federico Chiesa and Juan Cuadrado were too far behind to catch the ball at the gate. In the 44th minute, Juventus made their first accurate shot of the match, but Paulo Dybala did not obstruct Sirigu.
Time ended with a new opportunity for Torino, after Andrea Belotti was exposed and attempted a scissor shot, but the ball went over the crossbar. In the 58th minute Juan Cuadrado scored a great goal from a movement shot, but VAR suggested to Daniele Orsato that Leonardo Bonucci was in ambush and the goal was disallowed.
This led to the 78th minute, when Quadrado crossed and Weston McKenna leveled with his first goal for the “black and white” team. This led to the 89th minute, when Bonucci handed Juve a dramatic victory after intercepting an excellent cross from Quadrado with his head for the final 2: 1.
Juventus – Torino 2: 1
Goal scorers: 0: 1 N’Kulu (9), 1: 1 McKenna (78), 2: 1 Bonucci (89)
Juventus: Schesni, Cuadrado, De Licht, Bonucci, Danilo (71-Sandro), Kulushevski (57-Ramzi), Bentancourt, Rabio (71-McKenna), Chiesa, Dibala, Ronaldo
Coach: Andrea Pirlo
Turin: Sirigu, Lanco, N’Kulu, Rodríguez, Singo, Meite, Rincón, Linetti, Ansaldi (93-Bonazoli), Zaza (75-Lukic), Beloti
Coach: Marco Giampaolo
Turin, street: “Allianz Stadium”
Judge: Daniele orsato
Yellow cards: Kuluszewski, De Licht, Square (Juventus); Ljanko, Lukic, Bonazoli (Turin)
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