This draw to Roma, 4th two points from the Bianconeri, the possibility of regaining third place in the event of success on Sunday night in the clash against AC Milan (2nd).
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LCristiano Ronaldo’s 19th league goal was not enough: Juventus Turin, as on the first leg, was hooked by a fine team from Hellas Verona (1-1) on Saturday during the 24th day of Serie A .
This draw offers the opportunity to Inter Milan (53 pts), the leader, to take ten points ahead of the reigning nine-time Italian champion (46 pts) in the event of success on Sunday afternoon at San Siro against Genoa (12th).
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Jostled by a beautiful team from Verona and saved from the start by his goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny and his post on a header Davide Faraoni (7th), Juve thought they had done the hard part by opening the scoring at the start: an offering from Federico Chiesa , one of the most dynamic on the Turin side, was converted by Ronaldo (49th).
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Nineteenth goal for Serie A top scorer (ahead of Romelu Lukaku’s 17) and 766th in an official match, now a length of 767 goals generally attributed to “King” Pelé (he himself claims more than 1,200, however) .
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But Juve are suffering physically at the moment, in the absence of half a dozen key elements (Dybala, Cuadrado, Bonucci, Chiellini, Morata, Arthur and Danilo suspended on Saturday).
Andrea Pirlo hesitated to turn to his young and inexperienced bench (including ex-Marseille Marley Aké, who arrived in January) by making only two changes.
Tired, his Juve fell more and more and Verona, quite logically, equalized on a header from Antonin Barak (77th). The bar, the second amount of the match, even avoiding the worst for the Turinese on a strike from Darko Lazovic (85th).
Missed penalty for Immobile
Lazio Rome (6th), four days after taking water against Bayern Munich (1-4) in the Champions League, continued their black week in Bologna (0-2).
Everything was decided at the start of the match, with a penalty from Ciro Immobile stopped by the Bolognese goalkeeper Lukasz Skorupski (17th).
Less than two minutes later, Laziale goalkeeper Pepe Reina was showing less confidence as he failed to capture Riccardo Orsolini’s strike, which benefited Ibrahima Mbaye.
Lazio will not recover from this twist of fate, the very beautiful end of Nicola Sansone (64th) complicating in the second half an already difficult task.
“An ambitious team like us should have reacted better. It can happen to miss a penalty and take a goal, but more had to be done, ”railed Laziale coach Simone Inzaghi, worried to see the direct competitors take off on Sunday.
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