Juventus is not in great shape recently. In the Champions League, players from Turin lost a week ago with Chelsea 0: 4, and in Serie A they lost 0: 1 with Atalanta on Saturday. In the table of the Italian top league, Juve was only in seventh position before the match with Salernitana.
The game against the last Serie A team started as planned for the Old Lady. Paulo Dybala was very active from the beginning of the match, but his first attempts turned out to be extremely inaccurate. In the 21st minute of the game, the Argentine footballer showed a great shot from outside the penalty area, and Juve took the lead.
Until the end of the first half, not much happened and the Old Lady was in control of the game. Wojciech Szczęsny had absolutely nothing to do, but his colleagues from the offensive formations also did not shine.
In the 28th minute of the game Juan Cuadrado made a beautiful free-kick. The ball hit the post after his shot, and Giorgio Chiellini punched it into the empty goal. However, after the intervention of the VAR system, the arbitrator noticed that he was offside.
After changing sides, Salernitan unexpectedly attacked and Juve was in real trouble. After the fatal mistakes of the defense of the Old Lady, Luca Ranieri had a fantastic opportunity to equalize, but his shot from close range stopped on the goal post of Wojciech Szczęsny.
In the second half, the match became completely even, and Wojciech Szczęsny even had the opportunity to make a few simple interventions. As Salernitana seemed to come closer to scoring an equalizer, Alvaro Morata practically closed the game at Salerno. The Spanish sniper confidently took advantage of Bernardeschi’s great pass and directed the ball into the goal of the new Serie A from close range.
In the last seconds of the match, Paulo Dybala missed a penalty. The Argentine hit high above the crossbar of Salernitana’s goal.
The match ended with a 2-0 victory for Juve. After this triumph, the Old Lady is still seventh in the Italian league table and loses as much as 11 “points” to the first Napoli.
US Salernitana – Juventus FC 0: 2 (0: 1)
Goals: Paulo Dybala (21), Alvaro Morata (70)
US Salernitana: Vid Belec – Frederic Veseli, Norbert Gyomber, Riccardo Gagliolo – Lucky, Lassana Coulibaly, Leonardo Capezzi (50. Francesco Di Tacchio), Wajdi Kechrida (50. Andrea Schiavone), Luca Ranieri – Federico Bonazzoli, Simy (64. Milan Djuric)
Juventus FC: Wojciech Szczęsny – Juan Cuadrado, Matthijs de Ligt, Giorgio Chiellini, Luca Pellegrini (66. Alex Sandro) – Manuel Locatelli, Rodrigo Bentancur – Dejan Kulusevski, Paulo Dybala, Federico Bernardeschi (71. Adrien Rabiot) – Moise Kean (66. Alvaro Morata) )
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