Rome (AFP)
Juventus missed the opportunity to temporarily rise to the top of the Italian Football League standings, after drawing 1-1 against its host Genoa, at the opening of the sixteenth stage.
The victory was enough for the “Old Lady” team to overtake Inter at the top of the standings, but its exit with one point kept it in second place with 37 points, one point behind Inter, which faces its host Lazio “Sunday”, with the opportunity to increase its lead to four points.
Juventus opened the scoring with Federico Chiesa (28 penalties) before Icelandic Albert Gundmundsson equalized for Genoa (48). This is only the second time in the last nine matches that Juventus has dropped points, and Genoa raised its score to 16 points in 14th place.
This was the third time in a row that Juventus had the opportunity to seize the lead, even if temporarily, from Inter, after it did so in the previous two stages with two hard-fought victories over Monza 2-1 and Napoli, the “defending champion,” 1-0, before Inter regained it by defeating Napoli by three and Udinese by a clean four. .
The “Old Lady” team suffered greatly in its last two matches, and needed two goals from its promising defender Federico Gatti. The first was fatal against Monza in stoppage time, and the second was the only one for his team against Napoli (51).
The visitors opened the scoring after the match referee awarded a penalty kick following a mistake by goalkeeper Josep Martinez on Serbian Dusan Vlahovic, after Genoa’s Croatian player Milan Badelj lost the ball during the attack, so Chiesa successfully launched the strike (28), and the hosts responded at the beginning of the second half, and were able The equalizer was achieved by striker Gundmundsson, following a pass from Ghanaian substitute Caleb Ekuban (48).
2023-12-16 05:15:36
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