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Crotone easily beaten (3-0), Juve is third, minus eight from Inter and minus four from Milan. And the question that someone is still asking is whether Pirlo’s team, which has the game against Napoli to recover, is still in the race for the title.
I have already expressed myself on the subject, but it bears repeating. If Juve ever got to minus five (virtual situation, also because we don’t know when the match will pick up), then they should aim to win the direct game at home with Inter to reach a potential minus two. However, assuming this happens, you should expect Inter to miss a few shots here and there. Contrary to this theory, I remain convinced that Juve will miss some shots again (on Saturday they go to Verona without the suspended Danilo and the victory is far from obvious), while Inter – gassed by the primacy and the reassuring advantage – it will not. do it wrong.
Championship decided? For me it’s fine, also because -milan declining- Juve certainly does not have its strength in continuity.
Having said all this, it should be written that the Bianconeri, despite a renewed team, against Crotone are lasting longer and longer, appeared in recovery after the defeats in Naples and, in the Champions League, with Porto. They scored three goals, but it could have been a double with a goalkeeper other than Cordaz. Ronaldo scored two goals, thus beating Lukaku again, but missed at least two goals with the empty net.
Too bad for him (he could have taken off among the scorers) and good for Juve, which nevertheless has it. Otherwise, who would have unlocked the game?
I say that many times I am critical of the Portuguese champion for the excess of individualism, but it must be reiterated that neither Kulusevski, increasingly close to the goal and less and less convincing, nor the midfielders (Ramsey missed a goal in the first and second half) could have made up for it.
Therefore, despite a sensational error a stone’s throw from the wide-open door (28 ‘, Chiesa’s low center), It was thanks to CR7 if Juve went seven minutes from the end of the first half. At Alex Sandro’s suggestion, Ronaldo escaped from all possible brands and headed for the corner. Referee Marini waited a long time for Var’s ratification, but the Portuguese position was fair.
Juve not only deserved the advantage (a minute before Ramsey, with his head, had crashed into the crossbar, always on Chiesa’s signal), but they did it more and in the three minutes of recovery doubled with Ronaldo and, always with him, he shot the third goal.
In CR7’s 2-0 goal it was fantastic. First, from the edge, he threw hard forcing Cordaz to be repelled, then, realizing that Ramsey had landed on the ball, he shot like a bolt into the goalkeeper’s area to score again with his head. A very rare example of how a champion can, on occasion, prop the occasion and score in the same action.
If he had been less in a hurry, Ronaldo would have scored, before the break, also the third goal, always with an assist from Ramsey, who grew from a distance and more inclined to play for others than to shoot.
In all this there was Crotone (deployed by Stroppa with the 4-4-2) and during the first half hour he was even better, for quality of maneuver, compared to Juve. An essential problem is the shot on goal, which is only attempted Messiah. However, after the first goal of the bianconeri, the team died, the rhythm dropped and on the pitch, while it slowed down, only Juve remained.
As mentioned, also e especially thanks to Chiesa, Ronaldo could have scored repeatedly, but a little ‘imprecision (strange for someone of his level), a little’ from Cordaz prevented both the personal and collective goal.
Thus, from the corner of Chiesa, he scored McKennie (66 ‘), one who is scoring more in Serie A than all Juve midfielders put together.
The very young central midfielder was able to make his debut in a game that is now being addressed Beans (instead of Bentancur), endowed with vision of the game, clean touch and good dynamism. Of course, after seeing him at the Coppa Italia, he only played twenty minutes, but he liked him for his initiatives and strong personality. A promising guy that makes sense to bet on.
TABLE
Juventus 3-0 Crotone
Scorers: 38 ‘st, 46’ Ronaldo; st 21 ‘McKennie
Assist: pt 38 ‘Alex Sandro, 46’ Ramsey.
Juventus (4-4-2): Buffon; Danilo, Demiral, De Ligt, Alex Sandro (41 ‘Frabotta); Chiesa (41 ‘di Pardo), McKennie, Bentancur (25’ Fagioli), Ramsey (31 ‘Bernardeschi); Kulusevski (31 ‘Morata), Ronaldo. Available Szczesny, Pinsoglio, Dragusin, Peeters. Pirlo herds.
Crotone (5-4-1): Cordaz; Pereira, Magallan, Golemic, Luperto (1 ‘Marrone), Reca (22’ Rispoli); Messias, Molina (26 ‘Zanellato), Vulic, Ounas (26’ Simy); Di Carmine (31 ‘riviere). A disp. Festa, Crespi, Cigarini, Dragus, D’Aprile, Petriccione, Eduardo. Everyone. Stroppa.
Referee: Marini of Rome 1
Var: Banti di Livorno.
Ammoniti: point 20 ‘Ramsey (J); 5 ‘Danilo (J), 7’ Marrone (C), 46 ‘Frabotta (J).
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