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Scored: Morata 46 ‘, 84’
In recent seasons to attend the Champions League, Juve has often been very difficult in the opening match. Specifically, the achievement of the dominant Serie A team is to win 3, draw 5 and lose 1/9 of the first match of the closest group stage. All three of the Old Lady’s victories came in the five years of coach Allegri (2014-2019), Juve’s most successful leader in the Champions League since after the reign of Marcello Lippi.
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| Dynamo Kiev vs Juventus |
Last season, in the opening game, Juve also led Atlético de Madrid to 2-0 away, but at the end of 90 minutes they could only leave with 1 point in hand (2-2 draw). This season, Juve is off to a fairly slow start. Since coach Pirlo was officially appointed, Juve have only kicked 3 games (not including the 3-0 win over Napoli because the visitors were not present on the pitch due to a Covid-19 infection).
Juve beat the too weak Sampdoria 3-0 and then had to rely on Cristiano Ronaldo to shine to win a 2-2 draw in the match pressed by Roma. Last weekend rookie Crotone got the “King of Italy” score.
Although Andrea Pirlo is a symbol of Juventus and has received stronger support from the management than his predecessors, Maurizio Sarri or Allegri, the former midfielder has not been able to reassure Juventini.
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| Juventus start list |
So No. 1 star Cristiano Ronaldo is still infected with Covid-19 and certainly cannot play in this match, while this is the most anticipated figure to help Juventus make a breakthrough in the Champions League. It seems that coach Pirlo has not found the working formula for the bianconeri when CR7 is absent.
On the other side of the front row, Dynamo Kiev had to go through a rather arduous journey (from qualifying) to be able to participate in the group stage of the Champions League after 4 years.
The baggage that the Ukrainian team brings to Juventus is an undefeated circuit of 10 games (8 wins) in official tournaments. Dynamo Kiev head coach Lucescu is Pirlo’s former teacher in Brescia before and of course has more match experience than his former student.
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| Juventus had a stalemate in the first half against Dynamo Kiev |
Compared to the Crotone draw a few days ago, coach Pirlo made some adjustments to the roster. Standing in the wooden frame is a less famous goalkeeper than Szczesny instead of Buffon. General Chiellini returned to the defense to pair up with his close associate, Bonucci.
Midfielder Ramsey replaced Arthur Melo in midfield, while two unknown young players, Portanova and Frabotta, inevitably lost the main shot to Cuadrado vs Rabiot, both famous and more experienced. In general, in theory, Juventus uses a stronger lineup.
Despite having home-court advantage and good form in good shape, Dynamo Kyiv is very “informed” when it comes to choosing a well-organized defense – a well-organized counterattack. So, despite having more balls and actively organizing the attack, “Lao Ba” is not easy to intimidate the opponent’s goal.
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| 2000-born young talent Kulusevski (right) had a rare good chance to score late in the first half, but was successfully blocked by the Dynamo Kiev goalkeeper. |
The first significant opportunity came for Federico Chiesa when the player on loan from Fiorentina’s Juventus confidently drove the ball into the 16m50 area and ended up sinking the corner, but goalkeeper Bushchan gave the Dynamo Kiev save.
In the 19th minute, midfielder Chiellini had to leave the field early due to injury and Demiral took his place. After the first part of the first half, the situation for Juventus was not, but not much better, but more and more fell into a standstill. The midfield hardly offers a quality pass to the front row.
So it is rare for Juventus to have a threat, but it is not very dangerous for the home team goal. Most notably, the situation occurred in the 35th minute when Ramsey slipped down the left wing and Kulusevski’s effort to cross for a sensitive touch, but goalkeeper Bushchan arrived in time to save the Ukraine representative.
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| Juventus opened the deadlock at the start of the second half |
But at the beginning of the second half, Juventus found a goal. Kulusevski had plenty of space and time to launch a left-footed shot from outside the 16m50 line and goalkeeper Bushchan once again saved Dynamo Kiev, but forward Morata was in time to kick the back of the net.
It seems that after clearing the deadlock, Juventus will play better, but in fact, they are still blurred and without the same idea as the first half. Even when Dybala was introduced to the field as many Juventus fans expected, the situation was not much better.
There are even times when Juventus also proved to be inferior, making the 1 goal difference extremely fragile. Finally, in the 84th minute, the visitors were able to breathe a sigh of relief when he found a second goal, Morata moved from the center to the 16m50 area to catch a cross from Cuadrado down the right wing and made a moderate shake. Hard enough to take down the opponent’s goalkeeper.
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| Morata (No. 9) became a Juventus hero in the 2020/21 Champions League debut when he scored a double |
In the few minutes that remained, Dynamo Kyiv made a great effort to at least get the table of honor, but all their efforts were successful. In the end, Juventus had a 2-0 win to successfully open the 2020/21 Champions League on the day that coach Pirlo launched the prestigious club stadium.
TEAM
DYNAMO KIEV (4-3-3): Georgi Bushchan; Oleksandr Karavaev (Popov 70 ‘), Illia Zabarnyi, Vitalii Mykolenko, Tomasz Kedziora; Mykola Shaparenko, Vitaliy Buyalskiy, Serhiy Sydorchuk; Vladyslav Supriaha, Viktor Tsygankov (Verbic 70 ‘), Carlos de Pena (Rodrigues 60’).
JUVENTUS (3-5-2): Wojciech Szczesny; Leonardo Bonnuci, Giorgio Chiellini (Demiral 19 ‘), Danilo; Juan Cuadrado, Adrien Rabiot, Aaron Ramsey (Bernardeschi 79 ‘), Rodrigo Bentancur (Arthur Melo 79’), Federico Chiesa; Dejan Kulusevski (Dybala 56 ‘), Álvaro Morata.
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