Ronaldo Bags Two Goals In 20 Minutes On Juve Return
02 November, 2020
Cristiano Ronaldo marked his return to action with a brace as Juventus thumped Spezia 4-1 to make contact with winning ways in Serie A on Sunday.
Serie A
Result: Spezia 1-4 Juventus
Date: 01 November 2020
Venue: Orogel Stadium-Dino Manuzzi
Juve took the lead with a quarter of an hour gone. It was an excellent throughball into Weston McKennie on the proper of the box and he squared it to Alvaro Morata who put it in to the far bottom corner.
The Bianconeri came near doubling their advantage soon after. Morata played a good throughball forward to pick out Federico Chiesa on the edge of the box and he took it around the defender before drilling his shot just wide of the target.
Spezia had their first decent opportunity on the half-hour mark. M'Bala Nzola was running onto Matteo Ricci's throughball and he was one-on-one with Buffon when he completely missed the ball. He got onto the keeper's clearance and touch it back again to Ricci, but his shot was just wide of the near post.
And Spezia equalised occasions after. Tommaso Pobega's set you back the edge of the box was picked out by Paolo Bartolomei and he hit his low shot first-time. It took a deflection which caught out Gianluigi Buffon before finding the bottom corner.
Juventus made their first change of the overall game in the 56th minute and it had been Ronaldo replacing Paulo Dybala. And the Portuguese superstar gave the Old Lady the lead just 3 minutes after his introduction.
Ronaldo was one-on-one with the goalkeeper when Morata picked him out in the box and he took the ball around Provedel and slotted the ball in to the back of the net to score on his return to the team.
It was clearly a casino game for the substitutes as Adrien Rabiot scored Juve's third within minutes of replacing Rodrigo Bentancur when he timed his run perfectly to remain onside and get the ball on the left of the box before taking it around Terzi and Provedel before slotting it in to the bottom-left corner.
The visitors won a penalty in the 75th minute after Chiesa was brought down by Salvador Ferrer. Ronaldo stepped up and scored with a chipped effort from the spot to round off a big win.
Source: www.soccerladuma.co.za