Bianconeri see off Bologna | OneFootball

The Juventus Men’s First Team picked up three more important points by beating Bologna 2-0 at the Allianz Stadium on Serie A Matchday 33.

Jonathan David opened the scoring with an early header, and Khephren Thuram then put the result beyond doubt with his own headed attempt in the second half.

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Things couldn’t have gone better once the first whistle blew, and the Bianconeri went ahead with the first chance of the game and inside two minutes. With 90 seconds on the clock, Pierre Kalulu put in a perfect cross from deep that Jonathan David met to head past Federico Ravaglia.

Francisco Conceicao had the ball in the net again not long after, but his celebrations were cut short by the offside flag.

As the game neared 15 minutes, Bologna had their first real sight at goal as Tommaso Pobega drove a shot wide from long range and was never troubling Michele Di Gregorio in a quiet opening 45.

At the half’s midway point, Conceicao again found himself in behind from deep on the right, in a near replica of the move that ended with his disallowed goal. This time, though, Ravaglia was able to turn the No.7’s effort behind.

Emil Holm went close to a goal-of-the-season contender just after the half-hour mark. A ball into the box was half-headed clear to the edge of the area, where Holm caught it sweetly on the half-volley, but his fierce strike bounced off the underside of the crossbar and away from danger for Bologna.

A second evaded David by a matter of inches just before the break. Conceicao, always involved in the first half, slipped the Canadian in on the right of the box, from where the forward fired across goal and just wide.

Bologna came out on the front foot in the second half, and Riccardo Orsolini almost scored as quickly after the restart as David did after the first whistle. After some tricky footwork, the Rossoblu forward shot wide of Di Gregorio’s goal.

But the Bianconeri got the second shortly after. An attack that just couldn’t seem to find a way through Bologna’s backline finally managed when Weston McKennie picked out Khephren Thuram in the box, and the Frenchman climbed higher than anybody to send another header out of Ravaglia’s reach.

Jonathan Rowe then came within inches of halving the deficit for Bolo. Another move that started on the right shifted swiftly across the face of Di Gregorio’s goal, where Rowe raced on to meet it at the back post, but could only send his close-range effort onto the post.

There were to be no more goals, and the Bianconeri claimed the points.

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