Juve lose the chance to pressure Inter and Milan

The Juventus took a step back in his fight for the ‘scudetto’. Those of Andrea Pirlo were unable to get past the draw (1-1) this Saturday at the Stadio Marc’Antonio Bentegodi against a Verona who neutralized Cristiano Ronaldo’s goal through Barak. With this insufficient point, the Turinese are three behind Milan, second classified that this Sunday visits Roma, and seven of the leader, Inter, which receives Genoa.

The beginning of the meeting was exciting. The overwhelming dominance of Juve at the start it was suffocating. Those of Andrea Pirlo, with a 3-5-2 start and many important casualties in their ranks (Chiellini, Bonucci, Cuadrado, Dybala, Morata, Arthur and Danilo), surrounded the portal defended by Marco Silvestri and so much Aaron Ramsey, with a kick to the side of the net, like Cristiano Ronaldo they looked for the goal without success.

Anyway, the first big occasion of the match was Verona de Ivan Juric, who bet from the beginning for a 3-4-2-1. A header from midfielder Davide Faraoni hit the post after deflecting ‘in extremis’ the goalkeeper Szczesny. Juve returned to the charge and Church he tested Silvestri’s reflexes.

As the minutes passed, the clear initial Juventine dominance was diluted, more due to the lack of ideas than pressure, before the combativeness of a Verona very well protected in defense and that in attack was entrusted to the snatches of its tip Kevin Lasagna, who did not stop fighting with the Juventine centrals Demiral, De Ligt and Alex Sandro. The break was reached with swords raised high between two teams that equalized in shots on goal (3).

In the resumption, the Juventus He came out with force again and this time he did not forgive. Federico Chiesa, who played a very complete game, He put a ‘candy’ on Cristiano Ronaldo that the Portuguese crack did not miss tras shoot Silvestri in the race. With this goal, CR7 already adds 19 this season in Serie A, the same as Leo messi in LaLiga Santander.

With 13 minutes remaining and with Juve controlling the game without excessive strain, Verona surprised with the equalizer. Barak jumped more than Alex Sandro and embedded the ball by the square with a header.

With the duel almost over, the Verona was about to flip the scoreboard with a tremendous right hand from Lazovic that did not enter because of the great stretch of Szczesny and the crossbar. In the 90 ‘, Cristiano forced a foul on the edge of the area that the Portuguese player crashed into the barrier. Epilogue of a Juve that added a point that knows very little and that this Sunday could lose third place if Rome beat Milan in the Olympic Games.

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