Posted on Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 11:04 p.m.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored a brace during this trip from Turin, including a header goal on a remarkable vertical jump.
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Juventus easily won in Parma (0-4) on Saturday on the 13th day of Serie A, with a brace from Cristiano Ronaldo which allows him to take the lead in the scorers standings alone with 12 goals.
With 756 goals in official matches, CR7 is getting closer and closer to the 767 goals awarded to “king” Pelé in official matches (for more than 1,200 goals in all matches). A way for the Portuguese not to leave all the light of day to his rival Lionel Messi, who joined the legendary Brazilian on Saturday with 643 goals scored for the same club (Barcelona for the Argentinian, Santos for Pelé).
Ronaldo first used his impressive vertical trigger to head the second Turin goal (26th), on a cross from Alvaro Morata, then unleashed a tight shot from the left at a closed angle (48th) for the 3- 0 which extinguished Parma’s last hopes at the start of the second half.
Morata ended the Bianconeri walk with a head (86th), a few minutes after the replacement of CR7.
But the beautiful evening of Juve, who temporarily joined Inter Milan in second place in the standings, one point behind AC Milan, was also that of two “ex” Parmesans.
Dejan Kulusevski, first, opened the scoring unopposed in the middle of the box (23rd). The 20-year-old Swede did not celebrate his third goal of the season on this lawn where he shone so much last season.
The other great ghost was Gianluigi Buffon. The record holder for Serie A appearances celebrated his 653rd Italian league game, just weeks after the 25th anniversary of his debut, at 17, in the Parma jersey (November 19, 1995 against AC Milan, 0-0) .
“This day was the crowning of a dream: after that, I could have stopped my career and I would have been satisfied”, he recalled Saturday for the French sports daily L’Equipe.
For his very first match, he had kept his clean sheet against strikers of the caliber of Marco Simone, Roberto Baggio or George Weah. Saturday night, the opponents were probably less prestigious but “Gigi” Buffon was just as intractable on the attempts of Slovak Juraj Kucka (15th, 50th) and the vicious strike of Bruno Alvès (63rd).
He too will have fulfilled his contract: leaving the field without taking a goal, like ten days ago in Barcelona (3-0), a match at the end of which his coach (and ex-teammate) Andrea Pirlo had made an update more relevant than ever: “He does not play because he is my friend, he plays because he is a monument of world football. “
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