GENOA (ITALPRESS) – Good performance from Alberto Gilardino’s Genoa who held Juventus to a 1-1 draw, preventing them from overtaking Inter who could thus move up in the standings by obtaining a positive result on Sunday against Lazio. Very balanced start to the match, with both teams ready to study each other and trigger an intense rhythm right from the start. The episode that unlocks the match comes in the 27th minute, with Badelj’s bad control at the edge of his area which favors Vlahovic’s recovery and the service for Chiesa, which is then knocked down by Martinez who thus gets the penalty kick for the Bianconeri. Chiesa himself goes from the spot, displacing the Spanish goalkeeper and giving him the lead. Genoa softened the blow immediately and tried to rebuild their game, continuing to offer in the attacking phase. At half-time Gilardino introduces Ekuban, adding to Gudmundsson alone a reference in attack which, after just three minutes, repays the rossoblù coach: the number 17 himself becomes the protagonist of a nice phrase at the edge of the black and white area which leads him to serve for the Icelandic playmaker, only a stone’s throw from Szczesny and free to score the equalizer.
Juventus was hit coldly at the start of the second half and had to fend off the long wave of a confident Genoa. Allegri tries to implement offensive countermeasures to bring the Bianconeri back ahead, in a match that seems like it could break the deadlock at any moment. It is Bremer who comes close to overtaking Juventus, following a corner kick the Brazilian defender deflects with his body two steps from the net but finds Martinez’s reflex to keep the score 1-1 in the balance. A draw which, after three minutes of added time conceded by Massa, was thus definitively archived.
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