a goal of Alvaro Morata served the Juventus to seal a victory against Spezia (1-0) that keeps the Turin team in fourth position on the lookout for the head of the league on the twenty-eighth day of the A series.
JUV
PES
Juventus
Szczesny; Danilo, De Ligt, Rugani, Pellegrini (Bernardeschi, 63′); Square, Arthur, Locatelli, Rabiot; Vlahovic (Kean, 85′) and Morata.
Spezia
provedel; Ferrer, Erlic, Nikolaou, Reca; Agudelo, Maggiore (Bourabia, 76′), Bastoni; Green, Manaj (Kovalenko, 76′) and Gyasi.
Referee
Francesco Fourneau. TA: Vlahovic (57′), Pellegrini (61′), Bernardeschi (67′) / Erlic (54′) and Bourabia (90′).
Incidents
Match of the 28th day of Serie A played at the Allianz Stadium in Turin.
With the Naples, Inter and Milan losing points in the last days, the Juventus I had an obligation to beat a Spezia from the bottom of the table with their sights set on getting closer to the top and keeping the six-point lead over the fight between Roma, Atalanta and Latium for Europa League and Conference League positions.
The Juventus signed a great first half with the outstanding performances of the pair of strikers, formed by the Serbian Dusan Vlahović and bruiseand that of the Colombian John Squarewho did not stop giving solutions always attacking the back of the defense of the Spezia.
In minute 17 the Brazilian was about to open the scoring Arthur. Cuadrado received on the wing, won by the baseline, sat down two defenders with two cuts and gave way behind on Arthurwho did not find a goal among the tangle of defenders of the Spezia.
The Juventus he imposed his rhythm and was clearly superior in the first 45 minutes, but he needed the help of the Italian Ivan provenelSpezia goalkeeper, to open the account.
The goalkeeper hit the ball badly in the center of the field with his team completely open and the Black and Whites took advantage of the spaces to make a quick and precise transition between the Italian daniele rugani, Vlahovićthe Italian Manuel locatelli and bruisewhich he defined with the inside of his right foot and adjusted with quality to the far post.
It wasn’t a bad second half for the ‘juventinos’ but despite having chances, as has happened on other days, it’s hard for them to close the games.
Something that, for the moment, they fight with a great defensive level, especially that of the Dutchman Matthijs de Ligt and the brazilian Danieland the performances of the Polish goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesnywho had to work hard to stop, in the 80th minute, a point-blank shot from inside the area in what was one of the clearest for the Spezia to even the contest.
suffered the Juventus the last ten minutes against the team he leads Thiago Mottawho tried in every way to score, but managed to leave Juventus Stadium with an important victory.
With this victory, the ‘Vecchia Signora’ continues its streak of 11 games without defeat and sits in fourth position with 53 points, five points behind Inter already four of Naples and Milan, at the expense of what happens in their matchup this Sunday. For its part, Spezia falls to 16th position in the midst of a fight to maintain the category.