Italian champions Juventus registered their sixth win in Serie A as they emerged victorious over Genoa by a 2-1 scoreline on the Luigi Ferraris Stadium.
The Bianconeri lately concluded their UEFA Champions League marketing campaign in beautiful vogue as they beat Barcelona in their very own yard by three objectives to register all three factors. Regardless of being largely pissed off by a spirited Genoa facet, they managed to stroll away with all three factors as soon as once more.
The primary half was a largely uneventful 45 minutes of soccer which noticed Juventus have a lion’s share of the ball, however they did not make it rely. Andrea Pirlo’s males had been stifled by a inflexible residence facet and though they did handle to create the odd likelihood, the champions couldn’t produce any significant sequences of play within the ultimate third.
The second half was way more full of life compared, seeing three objectives scored on both facet and a few disallowed ones as properly. Paulo Dybala made his presence felt after his first begin of the season with an outstanding show, grabbing his first purpose of the marketing campaign as properly. The Argentine latched onto a knockdown from Weston McKennie to chop in on his left foot and smash the ball into the close to publish within the 57th minute.
Nonetheless, they misplaced the lead simply 4 minutes later after two former Juventus gamers Stefano Sturaro and Marco Pjaca mixed to present Genoa the equalizer.
With time working out for the guests to discover a winner, Juan Cuadrado helped them again into the sport after profitable a spot-kick which was expertly transformed by Cristiano Ronaldo to present his facet the lead as soon as once more.
It was the Portuguese’s 78th purpose on his a hundredth look throughout all competitions for Juventus, and he went on to double his tally for the sport minutes later with one other spot-kick alternative. Second-half substitute Alvaro Morata was tackled by Genoa keeper Mattia Perin, previously of Juventus, leading to a penalty which was tucked smashed into the web as soon as once more by Ronaldo to attain his tenth league purpose of the season.
This win fired Juventus into the highest 4 of the desk as Juve would hope to realize floor on league leaders Serie A.
Right here, we check out the very best tweets from the sport.
2 – Stefano #Sturaro has scored 2 objectives (out of 6 in complete within the competitors) vs Juventus in Serie A, his favorite goal within the prime italian league (solely 4 apps vs the Bianconeri). Ex.#GenoaJuventus
— OptaPaolo (@OptaPaolo) December 13, 2020
Irritating #Juve defending. No motive to have 2 v 1 on the again publish like that.#Genoa’s first effort on purpose, first on track & its 1-1
Wasted exhausting work taking the lead
— Elio Salerno (@eliosalerno87) December 13, 2020
Stefano Sturaro scored simply 2 residence objectives since returning to Genoa from Juventus in 2018.
Each of them towards Juventus.
— Michael Yokhin (@Yokhin) December 13, 2020
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored the profitable purpose towards Genoa final time Juventus confronted them.
Right here he goes once more. At all times right here once they want him 🔥 pic.twitter.com/7PUbybAfBf
— HazardJnr (@Hazardjnr97) December 13, 2020
Getting mad at somebody for scoring penalties is the weirdest factor. On the finish of the day, Ronaldo scoring his penalties obtained Juventus the three factors towards Genoa and a 3-0 victory over Barcelona so that they end first of their group. Serial winner.
— Xav Salazar (@XavsFutbol) December 13, 2020
Solely 3 gamers in soccer historical past have scored +750 objectives for membership & nation mixed:
🇦🇹 Josef Bican 759
🇧🇷 Pelé 757
🇵🇹 Cristiano 753 pic.twitter.com/xZHnFsgcwW— M•A•J (@Ultra_Suristic) December 13, 2020
Genoa 1-3 Juventus
Juventus took a very long time to interrupt Genoa down with Paulo Dybala’s first Serie A purpose of the season, then a pair of Cristiano Ronaldo penalties sealed the win pic.twitter.com/9ilYm1G8Hb
— Lilian Chan (@bestgug) December 13, 2020
Weston McKennie: uncooked # for Juventus in 2-1 win vs. Genoa
90 minutes
61 touches
33/39 passing (85%)
3 photographs
1 help
3 key passes
2/2 correct lengthy balls
7 duels gained (8 misplaced)
4 aerials gained (2 misplaced)
3 fouls
1 interception
1 deal with (2 makes an attempt)
– BIG outing for the #USMNT mid— Brian Sciaretta (@BrianSciaretta) December 13, 2020
I do know some persons are gonna run their agenda’s re #Juventus getting penalties & #CR7 being Penaldo and many others, however these 2 penalties are each stonewall penalties.
Asinine defending by Rovella & Pellegrini to create these conditions.#GenoaJuventus— Nima Tavallaey Roodsari (@NimaTavRood) December 13, 2020
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored extra league objectives than 𝐀𝐍𝐘 different participant in 2020.
He is now the primary ever Juventus participant to attain 30+ objectives inside a calendar 12 months.
He turns 36 in six weeks. pic.twitter.com/mayetbu1ah
— bet365 (@bet365) December 13, 2020
CR7 leads with a brace on his a hundredth Juventus look 💪
Bayer Leverkusen are actually in first place with a 1 level lead over Bayern 🔥 pic.twitter.com/BfMyV2AKWo
— Worldwide Champions Cup (@IntChampionsCup) December 13, 2020
Most objectives in membership int. cups (incl ClubWorld Cup,InterCity Festivals;not preliminaries)
1.Cristiano 143
2.Messi 122
3.G.Mueller 77
3.Raul 77
3.Lewandowski 77
6.Benzema 72
7.Shevchenko 65
8.Inzaghi 64
9.Eusebio 59
9.Henry 59
11.Van Nistelrooy 58
12.Ibrahimovic 56
12.Aguero 56— Tancredi Palmeri (@tancredipalmeri) December 13, 2020
Printed 14 Dec 2020, 00:33 IST
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