Buts: Vlahović (53e) and McKennie (75e)
Eight points each at kick-off, Juventus and Manchester City were playing what is commonly called “a decisive match”. Not so much to avoid dry elimination – a priorithe two teams should taste the knockout matches -, but rather to find a rank more worthy of their standing. It’s forgetting that Manchester City, despite their victory against Nottingham a week ago, is still recovering, while Juventus remains in four consecutive draws. This explains why the Italians and English were walking on eggshells. However, it was the people of Turin who made the best omelette after beating those of the Mancunians. This is also the price when you go to the Allianz Stadium dressed in a color torino ?
By bicycle
It is first Kenan Yildiz who gives the first blow: applied correctly, his shot from the outside – from the surface and the foot – comes to die flush with the post (19e). Faced with Bianconeri aggressive as can be (Mr. Turpin can attest to this after the shock against Koopmeiners), City does not have much to put in the balance. And when the De Bruyne-Haaland duo found a link again, with a sublime pass from the Belgian, it was Michele Di Gregorio who took out the cutlery.
To sit down at the table, you had to wait for the second period, the time for the Juventus fans take out the bicycles. Federico Gatti is the first to get into the saddle, going beyond his role as a boorish defender. His acrobatic attempt is repelled by Ederson, but when Yildiz puts it back in the box, the Brazilian goalkeeper can only score on the head of Dusan Vlahović (1-0, 53e). Rebelote with the substitutes Americans 20 minutes later: Timothy Weah serves Weston McKennie who crucifies ambitions citizens after a high-flying counter (2-0, 75e). The more or less convincing reactions of Doku, Silva, De Bruyne and Gündoğan – repelled by a superb horizontal from MDG – will not change anything: it will be a grimace for Pep Guardiola’s flock, who will have to find their way back to the victory against Paris or Bruges to ensure a future.
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