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Cristiano Ronaldo finishes off and assists, so Juventus beat Udinese and returned to the race for the Scudetto. Despite the 4-1, it was not easy for the Italian champions to defeat the Friulans. The first half was tricky, the second half was more convincing only because the spaces had increased. And players like Ronaldo and Chiesa fly in spaces.
DIFFICULTIES’ – Juventus had immediately had the opportunity to pass with a Ramsey header, after a Chiesa cross, Musso was saved with a deflection to corner. It happened at 7 ‘and that ball-goal gave Pirlo’s team the illusion of having solved the post-Fiorentina immediately. In reality, after the scare, Udinese organized well and for half an hour put the Italian champions in difficulty, who played holding the ball, making it travel horizontally, too slow, little imagination, little rhythm and poor intensity. It was an unfinished Juve and so slow that, as soon as they lost the ball, the Friulians had time and a way to get in order. Gotti’s team attacked with more brilliance and scored a very nice goal for construction (De Paul), shot (Lasagna), realization (again De Paul, with a touch of extreme in the near stick): on the occasion Bentancur and De Ligt defended himself very badly. No one, except Abisso al Var, noticed a light touch of De Paul’s hand early in the action. Giacomelli went to the monitor and canceled.
LITTLE JUVE – When Juventus took the field, everyone had fled to the front, except Sassuolo. Milan was at +13, Inter at +12, the last place in the Champions League, occupied by Napoli, 4 points behind. The pressure had increased but it did not justify the little that Pirlo’s team showed. Udinese always had an idea, they were looking for De Paul, they moved the two points, brought Stryger Larsen up on the right and Zeegelaar on the left, leaned on Walace who had the task of stopping Bentancur. Juve no. He never let Chiesa start, the only one capable of sprinting, he insisted on Alex Sandro’s unproductive descents, he had a monotonous game and no way out.
CR7’S LIGHTNING AND NUMBERS – But when you have a guy named Cristiano Ronaldo on the attack, nothing is enough to change a game. And that nothing came of an unforgivable mistake by De Paul who, on Stryger Larsen’s throw-in, got Ramsey to blow the ball to him, a touch for CR7 (which Bonifazi had to score closely, not far …) and lip of the Portuguese in the second post. So Juve solved their problems. Not with Dybala who, on the field from the beginning due to Morata’s injury, ran away without producing anything interesting. Not with team play, but with their champion. Who with this goal, and the one who will score in the second half, has scored other prodigious numbers. Here they are: 14 goals in his first 11 appearances in this league, only in 2014-15 with Real Madrid in La Liga he did better (20); he only achieved what all of Udinese (14 to 14); for the fifteenth consecutive season he crossed the line of 20 goals (now there are 21) in official matches also considering the Portugal team; Finally, no player has scored more multiple goals than him in the first 5 European championships in progress, 6 in 11 games, like Lewandowski in 13. Monstrous figures.
THE COURT OF THE CHURCH – At the end of the first half, Pussetto was injured and was replaced by Forestieri at halftime. But the impression (and something more than an impression …) is that all of Udinese stayed in the dressing room. Juve’s game has certainly changed and now he had a clearer and more accurate idea: to focus on Chiesa’s shot. Ronaldo immediately understood that he took out the former viola with time just behind the Friulian defensive line, Chiesa controlled from the right while running and scored from the left diagonally.. Good goal. Barely 4 minutes had passed, after another three from Juve scored again, this time an assist from Chiesa for Ramsey who had the first shot parried by Musso and put the ball into the net after a scrum. This time too Abyss saw it all in the Var: Ramsey touched the ball with his hand, annulled the 3-0.
THE CROSS OF LARSEN – Chiesa’s position had changed, or rather, now she could cut through the center and, if she wanted, widen to the left as well. His speed has become a weapon for the Bianconeri. But even if Juve seemed to be in control and finally playing with clarity of ideas, Udinese still tried to get back into the game, just a header from Stryger Larsen (lost by Alex Sandro) stopped at the crossbar. The Friulians tried to attack again, leaving too much room for the Bianconeri to restart.
THE DOUBLE CR7 – More than spaces, abysses opened in the Friulian half. Another fumble by De Paul (but Samir’s pass was short) under pressure from Bentancur again launched Ronaldo who had no mercy in front of Musso. However, Udinese did not give up even below three goals, with pride, but despite the game, they kept attacking and Zeegelaar hit the second crossbar of his team after an insistent action on the edges of Juve’s small area . Gotti’s team insisted on playing, Juventus didn’t. The changes of Pirlo (Bernandeschi and especially of Frabotta) helped to lower the tension and the Friulans took the opportunity to score a goal they deserved with Zeegelaar. It was 90 ‘. Dybala thought about putting things back in place at 4-1 with 11 seconds left to recover. A smile for him too.
THE END – Two bars, a goal disallowed by Var for a touch of the hand and a good goal: as an offensive production Gotti could be satisfied, not with the defensive phase, however, too much space, too many gaps, too many distractions. Pirlo had to overcome the traumatic 0-3 with Fiorentina and, thanks to Ronaldo, he succeeded. He will have to make sure the team is faster and brighter, but the latest news was also positive for the Juventus coach: Chiellini returned to the final.
TABLE
Juventus (4-4-2): Szczesny; Danilo, Bonucci (81 ‘Chiellini), De Ligt, Alex Sandro (81’ Frabotta); Chiesa (73 ‘Bernardeschi), McKennie (63’ Arthur), Bentancur, Ramsey (73 ‘Kulusevski); Dybala, Ronaldo.
Udinese (3-5-2): Musso; Bonifazi, De Maio (63 ‘Molina), Samir; Larsen, Pereyra (73 ‘Mandragora), Walace (80’ Makengo), De Paul, Zeegelaar; Lasagna (73 ‘Nestorovski), Pussetto (46’ Forestieri).
Referee: Giacomelli from Trieste.
Markers: 31 ‘Ronaldo (J), 49’ Chiesa (J), 70 ‘Ronaldo (J), 90’ Zeegelaar (U), 92 ‘Dybala (J).
Ammonites: Chiesa, McKennie, De Ligt (J).
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