Juventus, driven by a passionate team Dusan Vlahovicbeat Lecce at Via del Mare (0-3) and became the leader of Serie A, taking advantage of the fact that Inter will play in the Super Cup final against Naples this Monday in Saudi Arabia.
Vlahovic was on his feet and, after months of not scoring goals as a result of physical problems that hampered his performance, achieved his second double in a row. He has eleven goals in Serie A, where five out of three days have been played since the start of 2024.
Vlahovic, with confidence
Vlahovic’s renewed confidence is testament to the fact that in the first minute of play he was on the verge of opening the scoring. Nikola Krstovic, on the same line, blocked Weston McKennie from scoring header from a corner (11′). And a minute later it happened Philip Kostic who scored on a shot that almost missed.
A stormy exit from Juve that Lecce weathered by cooling the game and controlling the situation with the game not passing without notable action until half-time.
The Serbian decided in the second half
In the second part Vlahovic returned to the fray. He warned in the 52nd minute with a header that he could not provide the desired power and crossed too far.
0-1 soon followed. On a counter, the goal Vladimir Falcone Kenan Yildiz’s shot was denied, Andrea Cambiaso takes the ball and from the baseline he is centered so that’s it Vlahovic hits a volley which goes into the corner after bouncing off the grass (59′).
Juve are used to scoring goals
Juve, solid in defence, minimized the risks and gave Lecce no option to react. In addition, he is used to winning more than one goal. After beating Salernitana 6-1 and Frosinone 4-0 in the Coppa, they beat Sassuolo the previous matchday with 3-0 and today they repeated the result in Lecce.
Vlahovic took the 0-2 lead from McKennie by pushing the same line as the ball that goes in after the American heads a Kostic cross (68′).
The point, from a set piece
One of the sources of Massimiliano Allegri In attack, the set piece generated 0-3, the work of the central defender Gleison Bremer when he finished a cross from Samuel Iling-Junior with his head (84′).
It was the culmination of a fifth consecutive league victory, seventh counting those in the Coppa, for a Juve confirmed as strong candidates for the ‘scudetto’ with Inter, now second, a point behind the new leader .
match lineup
30
17
25
twenty
5
6
7
77
9
16
10
1
27
Eleven
6
3
4
16
twenty
fifteen
9
5
Stadio Ettore Giardiniero – Via del Mare
Wojciech Szczesny1
Andrea Cambiaso27
80′
64′
Philip KosticEleven
73′
Danilo6
Bremer3
84′
Federico Gatti4
71′
Weston McKennie16
22′
88′
Fabio Mirettitwenty
56′
71′
Kenan Yildizfifteen
73′
60′
Dusan Vlahovic9
58′
67′
65′
Manuel Locatelli5
Replacements
Carlo Pinsoglio23
Mattia Perin36
Alex Sandro12
80′
64′
Daniele Rugani24
Timothy Weah22
56′
60′
Hans Nicolussi Caviglia41
71′
Joseph Nonge47
Arkadiusz Milik14
73′
65′
Samuel Iling-Junior17
73′
71′
coach
Roberto D’Aversa
Massimiliano Allegri
Source: La Verdad
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