Venuti’s tears, Vlahovic’s caress and Cuadrado’s paw: what’s left of Fiorentina-Juve | First page

It was Dusan Vlahovic’s night. As an absolute protagonist, regardless of the dynamics of the match between Fiorentina and Juventus. Welcomed with enthusiasm and defended by the Juventus fans, insulted and booed for the whole evening by the Viola. Then the performance was complicated, the team basically left him alone up front, however he never lost his head. And allat the end, when Juve still found a daring goal that rewards them beyond its merits, here is the play as a champion. Because he was also there to console Lorenzo Venuti, who in any case for the whole game was good at never pulling the plug or giving in to provocations. Vlahovic’s caress is therefore a photograph of the evening. As is the one that immortalizes the tears of Venuti himself, a bit clumsy and a bit unlucky in deciding the first leg of the Italian Cup with an own goal that punishes a Fiorentina that could even go close to 0-0: it was the game of the year, perhaps the most important of the entire Commisso era, the Viola lost it, complicating the race to the final a lot of the Italian Cup. Venuti’s discouragement is understandable, it is human, it is the strongest image of this evening. JUAN THINKS IT – Di Venuti the crying face, Juan Cuadrado the one laughing. Again he, the Colombian, the other ex (one of the other ex) viola. The man of providence, especially in times of difficulty, year after year. Without going too far in time, in the championship it was still Cuadrado who found the winning goal, again in fortunate dynamics considering that cross-shot capable of catching a decisive deviation to transform into the three-point trajectory. And to think that this time he would have to catch his breath, Allegri tried to leave him out but the experiment of Marley Aké (professional winger) at full range was not going as hoped, a time on the bench was therefore considered sufficient by the technician to the Colombian. Thrown into the fray, he then did what in the last two seasons he is succeeding like never before: the difference. Especially in times of need.-