Juventus-Sampdoria 3-0: goals from Kulusevski, Bonucci and Ronaldo

The Master does not hug and applaud, reciprocated. There were a thousand of them and they certainly had fun, not only because they saw three goals, but also because Andrea Pirlo’s first Juventus showed good things against a Sampdoria that was never really dangerous. Three goals in which the old and the new are mixed, the drive of experience and the energy of youth: Kulusevski opens, immediately thrown into the fray out of necessity (Dybala and Bernardeschi come out), Bonucci doubles and Cristiano Ronaldo closes.

FRABOTTA SURPRISE

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Pirlo makes his debut at the Stadium without a true center forward, with two new signings immediately on the field (McKennie in addition to Kulusevski) and the owner is not expecting it: Gianluca Frabotta, born in ’99, lined up left back for surprise. Alex Sandro is injured, Pellegrini is not called up because at the start and the new coach prefers the young player, already launched by Sarri at the end of the season, to De Sciglio (who will enter in the last half hour, even playing 2-0) . Few novelties compared to the friendly with Novara, confirm the defense of three men that becomes four in the phase of non-possession, Ramsey in the offensive midfielder version and the attacking two-man version, with Kulusevski as a center forward to give him more freedom to Cristiano. Pirlo spoke on the eve of a team that has already assimilated its basic concepts and in fact it seems so: Juve press, recover high and spin the ball, the phrasing is pleasant and not an end in itself.

THE GOAL OF THE DEBUTANT

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The goal unblocked the game in the 14th minute, when Kulusevski found the corner with his left, taking advantage of a shot by Ronaldo rejected by the defense, but a few minutes before the Portuguese had touched the advantage in Ramsey’s verticalization (one of the most over the ball): ball deflected by Audero. Result that could have been more rounded already in the first half, if the crossbar had not been placed between 2-0 and Cristiano, after another good action started by McKennie (who steals the ball) and finished off again by Ramsey. CR7 does not give up and tries again before the break, but still does not succeed. Sampdoria are very buttoned up (with Bonazzoli as the only forward and Quagliarella on the bench) and focus everything on the restarts, but find few spaces and limit themselves to contain. The only blink, a shot from De Paoli just before the end of the first fraction.

BONNI and CR7

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Ranieri tries to change the score with Quagliarella, Ramirez and Yoshida, going from 4-5-1 to 4-3-1-2. And indeed, the redesigned Sampdoria produces something else: incursions into the Juventus area increase, but the danger index remains low, given that the first shot on goal (from Quagliarella, who then approaches 2-1 in the final) ten minutes from the gong. On the other hand, there is Cristiano who does not want to start the season without scoring: he tries again first with an ambitious skeet at the suggestion of Cuadrado, then on a free kick (rejected with his fists by Audero). Find the correct opening at 43 ‘with a perfect diagonal, again prepared by Ramsey. But first there was the claw that was Bonucci, who had put the result on ice shortly after half an hour with a goal from the center forward robbery, taking advantage of svirgole and rebounds in a corner kick. On Sunday Juve will face Roma at the Olimpico, who knows if with the new center forward or not, sure with three points and several other certainties.