Juventus managed to beat Spezia by a score of 3-0 in the Italy Serie A match at the Allianz Stadium, Wednesday (3/3).
Juventus had a lot of shooting attempts since the first half began. However, from a total of 10 experiments conducted, only two shots were on target. Meanwhile, Spezia itself did not pose many dangerous threats to Juventus in the first half.
Juventus had difficulties in the early minutes of the match. In fact, Spezia had spread threats in the 8th minute.
After that, Juventus began to take over the game and launched attacks after attacks. However, the club nicknamed the Bianconeri has never changed its position.
Cristiano Ronaldo came close to scoring in the 42nd minute. After receiving a pass from Dejan Kulusevski, the Portuguese man fired a right footed shot. Unfortunately, the aim hit the goalpost.
The remaining time is not enough for Juventus to take advantage of. As a result, the score lasted 0-0 until the referee closed the first half.
After a goalless draw in the first half, Juventus are also still having trouble posing a dangerous threat to Spezia’s goal. In the early 15 minutes, Cristiano Ronaldo and his friends were helpless to face the discipline of Spezia’s defense.
The deadlock made Andrea Pirlo decide to lower Alvaro Morata and Federico Bernardeschi in the 61st minute.
Shortly thereafter, the collaboration between Bernardeschi and Morata resulted in a goal. Bernardeschi’s cross was met by Morata’s shot. at close range.
Referee Juan Luca Sacchi did not endorse the goal. However, this moment was finally approved as a goal after consultation through VAR monitoring.
The first goal lifted the burden on Juventus. They played better in the next minutes. In the 71st minute, Bernardeschi managed to break through the right side of the Spezia defense then thrust the ball at Federico Chiesa.
Chiesa kicks in hard but Ivan Provedel still blocks. The fallen Chiesa was then able to kick off and deliver the ball into the goal.
In the 78th minute, Ronaldo unleashed a beautiful free-kick against Spezia. But the kick was thwarted by Ivan Provedel.
Ronaldo finally scored in this match in the 89th minute. Rodrigo Bentancur’s mature bait was followed by Ronaldo’s left footed shot which made the ball lodged in the Spezia goal. He also ensures that he is the first player to score goals in at least 20 matches in the last 12 seasons of Europe’s top five leagues.
During injury time, Spezia got a penalty. Andrey Galabinov executed a penalty but his shot was well blocked by Wojciech Szczesny. The 3-0 score for Juventus lasted until the end of the match.
This victory makes Juventus who are in third position now collect 49 points or only seven points from leaders Inter Milan.
Meanwhile, Spezia (25 points), who lost their second in three matches, fell to 16th, according to the official Italian League website.
