Soccer results Juventus vs Barça European Cup 2020

Final: Juventus 0-2 Barça
Scored: Dembélé (14); Messi (90 + 1 pen)

Despite having absolutely dominated Italian football for almost a decade (9 consecutive Scudetto), Juventus failed to take home the third C1 / Champions League championship in history. At this stage, the best achievement of the “Old Lady” is only in the last 2 times (losing … Barça in 2015 and losing to Real Madrid in 2017).

From Massimiliano Allegri to Maurizio Sarri, no one can help the team quench its thirst for titles in the continent’s most prestigious arena at club level. Now the team leaders decided to bet on coach Andrea Pirlo.

Andrea Pirlo is a new face in the military world, with no practical training experience before sitting on the Juventus bench, similar to how Zinedine Zidane came to power at Real Madrid almost five years ago. But you can’t underestimate Pirlo if you look back at the science and “mind” of this mythical midfielder.

Many of the current Juventus students were Pirlo’s teammates at the “Old Lady” and the former Italian team, so he understands the personality, strengths / weaknesses of each person, of which there are suitable plans for them. maximize capacity.

At the summit with Barça tonight, Cristiano Ronaldo will continue to be the public because he has not yet recovered from Covid-19, but in Pirlo’s hands is Álvaro Morata, who conceded to Barça in the 2014/15 Champions League final (Unfortunately , Juventus lost 1-3 at the end) or Paulo Dybala, the striker who twice scored against the giants of Catalonia in the 2016/17 Champions League quarterfinals (that year Juventus beat Barça with a total of 3 points). 0 after 2 games)

Also, don’t forget that before CR7 came out, Juve still made it to the Champions League final twice as mentioned above. Since Ronaldo joined Juventus in 2018, it seems that the “Old Lady” has more or less a disease depending on the Portuguese star, not a solid group, without depending on any individual. like when Allegri was at the helm.

Consequently, Juve failed to get past the Champions League quarterfinals in Ronaldo’s first two years, although CR7 scored 7 goals for Juve in the knockout rounds. Therefore, the absence tonight can be good for Juve, so that it has the opportunity to show that the collective strength is still better than that of a few outstanding ones.

Meanwhile, a 1-3 loss to Real Madrid in last weekend’s Super Clásico game exposed Barca’s main weaknesses in the early stages of the Ronald Koeman era. The blaugrana clearly lost the soul of the Catalan giants. Messi does not have a 100% miracle left when he is forced to stay at the Camp Nou for the last year of his contract, while the defense makes too many mistakes.

Not only that, veteran midfielder Gerard Piqué was also suspended due to a red card in a 5-1 win over Ferencvaros in the opening match. While Umtiti was still injured, coach Koeman had to use 1999-born youngster Ronald Araujo as a center back alongside Lenglet.

In attack, Coutinho was absent due to injury and the prodigy Ansu Fati was pushed to the bench, so the main kicking opportunity came for the “crystal star” Dembélé and Griezmann, whose face has yet to earn Koeman’s trust. In the middle line, the old general Busquets also lost his position to Pjanic, the player who last season also dressed … Juventus.

As for Juventus, coach Pirlo launched the public court that was considered the best without Ronaldo including Morata, Dybala and two good recruits thanks to a quick integration: Chiesa and Kulusevski. Veteran midfielder Bonucci has returned to help Pirlo worry less about defense when Chiellini and De Light are still receiving treatment for injuries.

Although he had to be invited, Barça had a better start. In the third minute, from a corner, Pjanic almost broke the old team net and Griezmann’s kick after hitting the crossbar.

However, it was only until minute 14 that the goal came to the Catalan giants. Messi opened the ball with great force to the right wing for Dembélé and the player “healed more than play” took the ball inside before launching a stretched shot, the ball passed over Chiesa to change direction to stop Szcesny’s hand .

Immediately after, the Barça network vibrated after Morata’s race and shot. However, the referee did not recognize the goal after speaking with the VAR team by radio.

At 23 minutes, after coordinating with Griezmann, Messi fell into a favorable position to launch a stretched shot but the ball missed on goal. In fact, in the leading position, Juventus tried with all their might to attack, but was completely dead. They staged a sporadic attack, mainly passing the ball down the midline, but lacked precise options to penetrate the opponent’s restricted area.

In the 30th minute, the second half of the game, Morata put the ball into the Barça net and, as before, the referee kept shaking his head for the offside. A few minutes later, Barça almost doubled the gap when Messi put Dembélé in position against Szcesny, but the victory belonged to the Polish goalkeeper. The ball then reached Griezmann’s place but a slight lack of decision made the best shot pass.

Until the end of the first half, the “Old Lady” of Turin was still completely stuck in the ideas of the attack deployment. Dybala assumed responsibility for public protection, but did not leave a significant footprint.

At the start of the second half, Bentancur fired a shot from near the 16m50 line and due to a slight error the ball missed the target. In the 55th minute, after a Chiesea cross from the left wing, Cuadrado tried to put the ball in the middle for Morata for the third time, making the Barça net.

However, after careful discussion with the VAR team, Morata and the entire Juventus team were upset by the referee. The “VAR style” lines show everyone just how narrow offside Morata is (just a little at his feet).

In the 62nd minute, following Griezmann’s effort, the ball jumped to Messi’s position near the 16m50 line and the Argentine superstar immediately launched a kick with his left foot. Szcesny was watching, but the ball barely hit the post.

Although the students struggled into extreme stalemate, Andrea Pirlo was almost motionless on the bench. It wasn’t until minute 75 that he made the first personnel change and it was too late.

Cuadrado once tried to play a “plea” game to help the home team, but was unable to overdo the referee, for which he was given a yellow card instead of penalizing Juventus.

As for Barça, due to the total control of the game, Messi and his teammates at times had a dangerous and dangerous situation even though it slowed down the pace of the game. Once Griezmann had a good chance to score after receiving the ball from Messi, but the forward’s shot went wide.

In the 85th minute, Juventus had only 10 people on the field after Demiral made a mistake with his former teammate Pjanic and had to receive a second yellow card. Not only were people missing, but the Serie A champions also had to receive the second goal.

90 minutes, Bernardeschi illegally obstructed Ansu Fati and the referee could do no more than point out the penalty spot. Lionel Messi is confident and courageous enough to successfully execute the 11-meter kick, making the score 2-0.

In fact, before time ran out, Ansu Fati had a very good chance of scoring a third goal for Barça, but it was difficult to understand when the prodigy was born in 2002 instead of finishing directly when the door was wide open and he chose a solution. it will happen

Braithwaite, but the ball goes beyond the reach of his teammates. Off the field, Coach Koeman couldn’t help but feel upset about the young student’s missing phase.

Anyway, Barça also has a global victory and Juventus once again failed in all “to exist without Ronaldo”. One day CR7 could not play, “Old Lady” was completely stagnant against a Barça in the reconstruction phase despite using all the “tricks”.

TEAM

JUVENTUS: Wojciech Szcesny; Juan Cuadrado, Merih Demiral, Leonardo Bonucci, Danilo; Rodrigo Bentancur, Adrien Rabiot ( Bernardeschi 83 ‘); Dejan Kulusevski (McKennie 75 ‘), Paulo Dybala, Federico Chiesa; Álvaro Morata.

BARCELONA: Neto, Sergi Roberto, Ronald Araujo (Busquets 46 ‘), Clement Lenglet, Jordi Alba; Frenkie de Jong, Miralem Pjanic; Pedri (Braithwaite 90 ‘+ 2), Lionel Messi, Ousmane Dembele (Ansu Fati 67’); Antoine Griezmann (Junior Firpo 89 ‘).