Fiorentina-Juve 0-1: Venuti’s own goal in Vlahovic’s match in the Italian Cup

Dusan Vlahovic, the expected ex-player, does not score welcomed by a hot “Franchi” on his return to Florence, does not score Piatek who has taken his place in this first month also as a goalscorer of the viola. When between Fiorentina and Juventus, the first leg of the Italian Cup, he was about to score no one, as in the Derby della Madonnina the day before, in the 91st minute it was the viola Lorenzo Venuti who scored. But in his own goal, in a carom with Milenkovic on a cross from the right by Cuadrado, who had been decisive in the Cesarini area even in the previous four months ago in the league. Juve need such an episode, put under by Viola (who certainly deserved more) and arrived at the end of the game with a single shot on goal, to return from Tuscany with a last minute smile and the aim of returning to the final a little closer, in view of the return on April 21st at the Allianz Stadium.

VIOLA GAGLIARDI

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Florence dresses the Franchi with the party dress, with an impact choreography on Dante’s Inferno – to which the “traitor” Vlahovic is destined – even if the tongue is less high, poisonous as the tasty teasing of rivalry wants, but with the inadmissible exception of that racist chorus for the expected former Serbian on duty. The vigor of the environment is then reflected on the pitch – completely at ease with the very male meter carried out with coherence by Guida – in the tactically as well as emotionally vigorous attitude of the Italian team, the most interesting on the lawn. Together with the perky Torreira in the middle and a Bonaventura on the ball in the trocar, Ikonè on the right (preferred to Gonzalez) is the most exuberant: not by chance, in a start in which everyone (Saponara, Biraghi, Bonaventura, Torreira) challenge Perin from outside , it is the French side who in the 26th minute has the best scoring ball, a diagonal at the end of a very fast counterattack on the right just beyond the far post.

CRUSHED JUVE

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The avalanche of absentees (nine!) Forces Allegri not only to field the youngest Juve since the beginning of the last decade (average age of 25 years and 56 days according to the Opta data) but also a 3-5-2 with atypical staff. Yet he turns out to be in good enough shape to contain the impact of home with De Ligt fixed on Piatek, the back fifths of midfield (generous Akè at full range) to follow the purple attacking wards and the arms of the three-man defense (the adapted De Sciglio and Danilo) to create superiority and cover the incursions of the midfielders, however followed by the midfielders. In the setting phase, the three behind are more lucid than Arthur who in front of the defense never leaves peace of mind due to the propensity for bloody errors: the result is a Juve that also makes possession but often even inside its own area, crushed by the high viola aggression, mostly overcome only by looking directly for Kean and Vlahovic, stopped by hook or by crook by Milenkovic and Igor always in advance. Thus, the only black and white shot of the first half, a diagonal by Vlahovic dampened by Milenkovic (43 ‘), ends up being more a way to free the competitive charge than a real danger.

IMPACT CUADRADO

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Inevitably, Vlahovic again, after about ten minutes of a second half in which at least a few balls that can be better spent vertically and with more spaces to attack arrive, he has the only real scoring ball of the Juventus match: a 50-meter throw from De Sciglio, the Serbian overtakes Igor in one on one and starts a lob on which he saves Terracciano. Higher with the entry of Cuadrado and then of Morata, Juve however seriously risks being punished in the open field, already with Ikoné in the 48th minute to eat a goal with the door wide open because the shooting on the counterattack does not turn enough and is printed on the crossbar. But Fiorentina continues to shoot blanks, again with Ikoné from outside, then with Biraghi serving a Castrovilli gore or on his own on a free kick. So, even if nobody knows it yet, the counterattack thrown on the outside of the net by Cuadrado on the right is the anticipation of the epilogue: in the recovery the Colombian crosses to the center of the area where there is no teammate, but the desire to sweep away the mockery ball Come. The return starts from 1-0, for Juve, and this time Vlahovic has nothing to do with it.