Danilo, Ramsey and Cristiano Ronaldo decide

TORINO – In the end, for Juventus there is only victory. But it does not matter: it is the only thing that counts and allows Juventus to jump to 33 points in the standings, confirming Milan’s -7 and climbing to Rome’s -1 and Inter’s -4 before going to challenge him on Sunday. in San Siro. All with one game less, the one that will recover with Napoli. This, however, is the happy end of a bad night: in which Juventus once again showed limits of maturity, allowing themselves to reach 1-1 by a Sassuolo who stayed at 10 due to Obiang’s expulsion, and in which Pirlo lost two other players, McKennie with a muscle problem and Dybala with a left knee injury. Tomorrow or Tuesday they will know more, but between the two and the three positives of Covid, Alex Sandro, Cuadrado and De Ligt, the Juventus coach has his men numbered.

Juventus starters Arthur and McKennie

Apart from the forced resignation of De Ligt, replaced by the relaunch of Demiral from the beginning, Pirlo against Sassuolo almost completely confirms the formation that beat Milan at San Siro. The only exceptions are Arthur in midfield instead of Rabiot (whose warning status may have affected the pick) and McKennie as winger instead of Ramsey. Instead, De Zerbi makes up for Berardi’s absence by relaunching Defrel and inserting Traore in place of Boga on the left.

Massa expels Obiang at the end of the first half

Traore himself creates the first hazard, causing two back-to-back corners for Sassuolo in the second of which Ferrari misses a good opportunity. Juventus responded with a great counterattack in the 7th minute, started by Chiesa and finished off with Ronaldo’s heel for Frabotta, obtaining in turn a corner: on whose evolutions, not immediately, CR7 touched an astonishing header goal, climbing higher Than the outstretched fist Of advice. And just as amazing is McKennie’s play shortly after setting up Frabotta’s left foot (deflected for a corner): double hat and heel assist. Incredible and last more or less, because at 19 ‘the Texan comes out, giving way to Ramsey. A lot of dribbling in the field (the two teams with the most possession of the ball in Serie A face each other), but he does not hesitate to seek depth when it is useful: thus Bonucci is forced to warn Caputo in the 13th minute and Chiriches in the closing. in a Ronaldo slip at 27 ‘(thrown by Bonucci himself). At 42 ‘second forced change for Pirlo: Dybala exits, bruised after a collision with Traore, and Kulusevski enters. As if that were not enough, Obiang was about to cripple Chiesa with a bad sliding operation, which Massa punished first with the yellow and then, after seeing him again in the Var, rightly with the red. At the head of a man, Juventus also approaches the lead on the scoreboard with a Demiral heel for Frabotta who is ahead of Consiglio: on his touch, however, Ronaldo does not arrive in time to support the net. Then the encore, with Ramsey delaying a shot and Kulusevski, served by the Welshman, who raised his aim too much. And so the first half ends 0-0.

All the goals of the second half

In the second half De Zerbi tries to face the numerical inferiority inserting López for Djuricic and especially Toljan for Caputo, while Pirlo to make sure to keep him takes the yellow card to Bentancur and inserts Rabiot. Juventus immediately attacked Sassuolo and, after a rejected shot from Ramsey, went ahead with a bolide from outside Danilo’s area, which took advantage of the numerical superiority to further accompany the action. The game is downhill, but Juventus is drifting downhill: so after leaving a wide corridor for Traore on his left, managing to close it, it remains to be seen a maneuvering action by Sassuolo topped by the Ivorian for Defrel, who slides between Demiral and Bonucci and tie. Shocked for a few minutes, Juventus tries to react: the City Council risks a penalty for Ronaldo, Chiesa hits the outside post and Rabiot raises his head. It seems that the goal was scored in the 29th minute when Kulusevski put CR7 in front of Consigli, who misses incredibly with his right foot, blocked by the goalkeeper. Sassuolo suffers, but is not afraid to try to replicate in the Locatelli and Traore-inspired counterattack. Pirlo is about to play Morata and Bernardeschi’s cards for Ramsey and Frabotta, but in the 37th minute the Roman side crosses low and the Welshman scores his first goal of the season (he will come out shortly after, but with him it will be Chiesa to make way Morata and Bernardeschi). Juve again take risks when a bad control by Arthur throws Oddei, but Szcesny blocks the Ghanaian’s left. Sassuolo did not give up, but 20 seconds from the end of the recovery Cristiano Ronaldo sealed the game with a low diagonal shot from Danilo’s launch.