Italian Serie A

FT Saturday, January 27, 2018
Juventus WWWWW 2
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Chievo Verona LLLDL 0
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Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi · 23,700 att.

Match Report

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Juventus beat nine-man Chievo to return to top of Serie A

Juventus climbed back back to the Serie A summit but made heavy weather of beating a Chievo side reduced to nine men.

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Team Stats

11
Fouls
9
2
Yellow Cards
0
0
Red Cards
2
2
Offsides
0
4
Corner Kicks
2
1
Saves
5
76.5
Possession
23.5
16
SHOTS
1
7
ON GOAL
1
0.4
On Target %
1.0
0
Penalty Goals
0
0
Penalty Kicks Taken
0
660
Accurate Passes
158
728
Passes
224
0.9
Pass Completion %
0.7
7
Accurate Crosses
1
29
Crosses
8
0.2
Cross %
0.1
60
Long Balls
46
49
Accurate Long Balls
17
0.8
Long Balls %
0.4
4
Blocked Shots
0
7
Effective Tackles
10
9
Tackles
14
0.8
Tackle %
0.7
0
Interceptions
0
6
Effective Clearances
41
6
Clearances
41

Head to Head

JUV leads series 4-0-1

Lineups

CVO · 5-3-2

  1. 70Stefano SorrentinoG
  2. 3Dario DainelliCD
  3. 40Nenad TomovicCD-L
  4. 14Mattia BaniCD-R
  5. 2Pawel JaroszynskiLB
  6. 29Fabrizio CacciatoreRB
  7. 8Ivan RadovanovicCM
  8. 56Perparim HetemajCM-L
  9. 77Samuel BastienCM-R
  10. 23Valter BirsaCF-L
  11. 20Manuel PucciarelliCF-R

JUV · 4-3-3

  1. 23Wojciech SzczesnyG
  2. 15Andrea BarzagliCD-L
  3. 4Medhi BenatiaCD-R
  4. 22Kwadwo AsamoahLB
  5. 2Mattia De SciglioRB
  6. 5Miralem PjanicCM
  7. 27Stefano SturaroLM
  8. 6Sami KhediraRM
  9. 9Gonzalo HiguaínF
  10. 17Mario MandzukicLF
  11. 11Douglas CostaRF

Timeline

  1. 22' Kwadwo Asamoah (Juventus) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  2. 32' Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) is shown the yellow card.
  3. 35' Samuel Bastien (Chievo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  4. 37' Second yellow card to Samuel Bastien (Chievo) for a bad foul.
  5. 45' Substitution, Chievo. Fabio Depaoli replaces Manuel Pucciarelli.
  6. 52' Substitution, Juventus. Federico Bernardeschi replaces Stefano Sturaro.
  7. 53' Substitution, Chievo. Alessandro Gamberini replaces Nenad Tomovic because of an injury.
  8. 61' Fabrizio Cacciatore (Chievo) is shown the red card.
  9. 67' Goal! Chievo 0, Juventus 1. Sami Khedira (Juventus) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Federico Bernardeschi following a corner.
  10. 72' Substitution, Juventus. Stephan Lichtsteiner replaces Kwadwo Asamoah.
  11. 79' Substitution, Chievo. Riccardo Meggiorini replaces Valter Birsa.
  12. 88' Goal! Chievo 0, Juventus 2. Gonzalo Higuaín (Juventus) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Douglas Costa with a cross.
  13. 89' Substitution, Juventus. Rodrigo Bentancur replaces Gonzalo Higuaín.

Serie A News

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