Juve-Fiorentina 0-3: Vlahovic, own goal Alex Sandro and Cáceres. Red in Square

The afternoon started badly and the night ended worse: Juventus lost the 3 points they had won at the table against Napoli (a game that will be played again) and then got three goals from Fiorentina. It is Pirlo’s first defeat in the league, marred by an expulsion (from Cuadrado) less than twenty minutes away. Juve, however, have the serious lack of having been at a disadvantage before the numerical inferiority and after being sunk: everyone hurts, especially the defense.

GOAL AND RED

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Pirlo had said on the eve of the game that he feared Ribéry above all and in fact he was not wrong, because it is from his intuition that the goal of the viola advantage was born: vertical ball for Vlahovic, guilty kept in play by Bonucci, who burn De Ligt in the click and then taunt Szczesny. The goal after three minutes creates apprehension and confusion in the Bianconeri, already forced to give in to Rabiot, who in Pirlo’s plans was going to start instead of McKennie, very close to the match for the sentence on Juventus-Napoli (Rabiot had once the disqualification sentence has been fulfilled during that match, for Juventus with the repetition of the match the player could not be used). The worst, however, is yet to come: in 18 ‘Juve also lost Cuadrado, sent off for a serious foul on Castrovilli (the yellow then turned red with the intervention of Var). So Pirlo is forced to redesign His Lady: Ramsey outside and Danilo inside for a 4-3-2 with Chiesa on the right. Fiorentina understands the delicate moment and tries to make an encore before the break: Castrovilli almost succeeded with a great shot deflected by Szczesny. Juve in the first half is only Cristiano Ronaldo, who in the face of numerical inferiority does not give up and tries to put the game on its feet in every way, but then he also gives up.

Shipwreck and controversy

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In the second half, Pirlo takes Morata out and puts Bernardeschi on, but the most animated of the Juventus troops is another former, Chiesa, who is about to tie. The game is very hard and the referee soon loses control: Borja Valero, already warned, would have deserved a second yellow on Bentancur, he doubts that the contact in the Ronaldo-Castrovilli area is even more than between Bernardeschi and the Milenkovic-Dragowski couple. Instead, it was correct to cancel CR7’s header due to an obvious offside. Fiorentina seems almost satisfied with the advantage, until the Juventus defense arrives again to give them a hand: on the center of Biraghi Alex Sandro (disastrous) in an attempt to postpone a deflection in his goal, also deceived by the empty intervention by Bonucci. As a mockery of the mockery in the final comes the goal of the first, Cáceres (on Biraghi’s ball, again him) who puts the tombstone in the match. This is how Fiorentina rose, finding the first victory for Prandelli’s leadership thanks to the best match played in this championship, while Juventus will have to ask themselves some questions. The summit recedes and after the break the Bianconeri will face Milan, Sassuolo and Inter in sequence (with the unknown of the match against Naples to recover): certainly not a soft start to 2021.