- Juventus only drew 1-1 at home against Verona
- Not counting the forfeit from Napoli, this is the third league match without a victory for the Italian champion
- Fiorentina defeated Udinese 3-2 in the previous game. Bartłomiej Drągowski defended the whole match in the team from Florence
Juventus are aiming for the tenth Italian championship in a row, but so far the Old Lady is not impressive. In five matches, he only scored nine points and is only in fifth place. This time they drew 1-1 with Verona, not counting the forfeit from Napoli, this is the third league match without the victory of the Italian champion. So far, the idea of hiring Andrea Pirlo is hardly successful.
Juventus played without coronavirus fighter Cristiano Ronaldo and injured Giorgio Chiellini, who suffered an injury in Kiev in Tuesday’s Champions League match against Dynamo (2-0). Pirlo made three other line-up changes, but the team performed much less than in the Ukrainian capital.
Few fans at the stadium (a thousand fans sat in the stands, but from the next round of matches, even such a number of people will not be able to come) could rub their eyes with amazement, because Verona prevailed and created situations, but she lacked efficiency. But when Juventus shook off the advantage of the visitors, he was clearly more formidable. First, after a counterattack, Juan Cuadrado hit the crossbar, then Alvaro Morata hit the net, but after consulting with VAR, the referee did not recognize the goal, because the Spaniard was on the minimum offside.
Former Juventus footballer scored former teammates
After an hour of play, the guests unexpectedly took the lead. Andrea Favilli, a former Italian football player, hit the net. In 2015, as an 18-year-old, he was loaned from Livorno to Juventus, but he played one very short episode in Serie A. Two years ago, the Turin club bought him for EUR 7.5 million, but during his second stay at this club he did not play even once, because almost immediately after the transfer, he was loaned to Genoa with an option to buy him.
This time, against his former teammates, he came onto the pitch in the 55th minute, replacing Nikola Kalinic. At the hour of the game, using counterattack, he did not give Wojciech Szczęsny a chance in the duel alone. A moment later he got injured and left the pitch, where he spent only seven minutes.
In the 78th minute, the substitute Dejan Kulusevski equalized. The Swedish representative fell out of the penalty area in his own style and led to a draw. It was all the favorite could do, although Morata was close to scoring the winning goal in added time.
In addition, Leonardo Bonucci came down with an injury. Considering the injuries of Chiellini and Matthijs De Ligt, Juve’s defense ahead of Wednesday’s match against Barcelona in the Champions League looks rather weak.
In turn, Verona showed that she can effectively defend, in five matches she lost only two goals. However, Paweł Dawidowicz does not contribute to such a good attitude. In Turin, he sat on the bench again, and in the previous games he only appeared once on the pitch in the end.
Fiorentina Breakthrough
Fiorentina defeated Udinese 3-2 in the previous Sunday match. Thus, she came to the end of three matches without a victory. The hero of the match was Gaetano Castrovilli. The 23-year-old attacking midfielder scored two goals and Nikola Milenković hit the net after his pass into the net. As usual, Bartłomiej Drągowski defended in the team from Florence. He admitted two goals from Stefano Okaki’s close range. One wonders if he could have done better in the second case, but he showed himself in a few situations, especially impressing him by defending Okaka’s 62-minute strike from close range.
Juventus – Verona 1: 1 (0: 0)
Goals: Kulusevski 78 – Favilli 60
Wojciech Szczęsny played the entire match at Juventus, and Paweł Dawidowicz played the entire match on the bench in Verona
Fiorentina – Udinese 3: 2 (2: 1)
Goals: Castrovilli 11 and 51, Milenković 21 – Okaka 43 and 86
Bartłomiej Drągowski played the whole match in Fiorentina)
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