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Juventus, the Italian hegemony, began their march to the tenth consecutive Serie A title with a clear 3-0 victory over Sampdoria in Turin.
Two of the successful goals were scored by newcomers Dejan Kulushevski (13 ‘) and Leonardo Bonucci (78), and star great Cristiano Ronaldo squandered plenty of goal positions. In the 88th minute, the Portuguese still opened his season account after an assist from Aaron Ramsey.
The match marked the official technical debut of Andrea Pirlo and under his leadership the champions showed a pleasant and varied football, especially in attack.
In the next round, the Juve Master has a much more difficult task: to visit Roma, while the “sailors” will seek the first points in the new season at home against rookie Benevento.
Juve’s official focus was 5-4-1, but during the match the formation was seen to vary between 3-5-2 and 3-4-1-2 as Aaron Ramsey often played behind the forwards. From minute 1, coaching rookie Andrea Pirlo opted for Schalke 04 recruit Weston McKenney. Gianluca Frabota, 21, played on the left flank, who so far only had two encounters with the “black and white” team.
Dejan Kulushevski assisted Cristiano Ronaldo in the top positions, and Danilo played alongside Leonardo Bonucci and captain Giorgio Chiellini on defense. Samp coach Claudio Ranieri, for whom this was a №424 match at Calcio, bet on an attack by Federico Bonazoli while Fabio Quagliarella sat on the bench.
At the beginning of the match, it was clear that Juve de Pirlo will bet on direct football, will take advantage of every opportunity to attack and will not rely on a slow game like Maurizio Sari. And this approach obviously appealed to Cristiano Ronaldo and company, because in the first half the champions created a lot of dangerous situations, but they scored only one goal.
It was the work of debutant Deyan Kulushevski, who in the 13th minute took the ball and with an unavoidable kick to the ground beat Emil Audero by 1: 0! Before the goal, a dangerous shot from Danilo flew over the goal, and the goalkeeper stopped a shot from Cristiano, which was taken only by Aaron Ramsey against him.
Then the five-time Ballon d’Or winner squandered two more chances to double the hegemony advantage. First, Ronaldo received a fantastic pass and shot hard, but off the crossbar. In the 34th minute, Ramsey made a deft pass to Cristiano, who rushed into empty space. However, he received a slight rebound, so the forward stayed one step behind the ball and sent it.
Late in the half, Weston McKenney’s shot missed its mark and Fabio Depaoli fired from the edge of the box along the left post. At halftime, Claudio Ranieri made a triple change in an attempt to change Samp’s pale performance. Depaoli, Mehdi Lerish and Lorenzo Tonelli left the match. In their place appeared respectively Gaston Ramirez, Fabio Quagliarella and Maya Yoshida. This changed the game from 4-5-1 to 4-3-1-2.
In the 49th minute, Juventus lost a new position. Gianluca Frabota came out and fired into the left corner, but Audero saved. Then the guests created two dangerous situations, but Bartosz Berezinski did not hit the door and Ramírez made a mistake in the decisive pass. In the 58th minute Juan Cuadrado finished off Ronaldo, who turned around and fired, but within the out.
In the 71st minute, subsidiary Matthias De Chilio was able to put an end to the dispute. He controlled and shot to the far corner, but there was a rebound and the ball went to the corner, after which nothing interesting came out. A quarter of an hour before the end, Ronaldo fired hard from a foul, but Audero conceded.
In the 78th minute Juventus reached the second goal. After a corner, McKenny and Leonardo Bonucci collided. Berezhinsky couldn’t clear and the American intercepted. The goalkeeper scored, but in extra time the defender could not miss by 2: 0.
Then Wojciech Szczesny intervened safely after a corner kick, and McKenney and Quagliarella didn’t take their chances either. In the 88th minute, Ronaldo finally scored. He received a pass from Ramsey and with a shot in the far corner formed the final 3: 0!
Juventus – Sampdoria 3: 0
Goal scorers: 1: 0 Kulushevski (13), 2: 0 Bonucci (78), 3: 0 Ronaldo (88)
Juventus: Shesni, Frabota (67-De Chilio), Chiellini (83-Demiral), Bonucci, Danilo, Cuadrado (78-Bentancur), Makkeni, Rabio, Ramzi, Kulushevski (81-Costa), Ronaldo
Coach: Andrea Pirlo
Sampdoria: Audero, Berezinski, Koli, Tonelli (46-Yoshida), Augelo, Torsby (70-Damsgaard), Ekdal, Lerish (46-Quagliarella), Depoali (46-Ramischer), Yancto, Bonazoli (70-Vere)
Coach: Claudio Ranieri
Turin, st: “Allianz Stadium”
Judge: Marco Piccinini
Yellow cards: Frabota (Juventus); Tonelli (Sampdoria)
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