Bianconeri come up short against Fiorentina | OneFootball

The Juventus Men’s First Team were unable to take points as Fiorentina left the Allianz Stadium on Serie A Matchday 37 having scored two unanswered goals. 

Cher Ndour and Rolando Mandragora each netted for the visitors. 

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The game started at a relatively slow pace, and the first attempt at goal came our way. Manuel Locatelli sought to force something with a shot from range that David De Gea was equal to. 

A helping hand very nearly saw the Bianconeri take the lead just before the first half’s midway point. Cher Ndour looked to play the ball towards his own goal, but it was loose and Dusan Vlahovic pounced. De Gea was alert, though, and he shut down the No.9’s angles and managed to turn the shot away.

Ndour did then become the player to open the scoring, though. Just after the half-hour mark, he found himself in the Bianconeri box and shot, squeezing his effort under Michele Di Gregorio. 

De Gea was again called into action to keep the Bianconeri out before half-time. This time it was Kenan Yildiz who took aim, but the Spaniard was able to react well and deny the No.10.

Jeremie Boga was introduced at the beginning of the second half, and his arrival sparked new life into the game. He looked to threaten from the centre and the left, while Francisco Conceicao was active on the right. The Portuguese came close to a leveller, but De Gea stretched out a left leg at his near post to turn the ball behind.

Weston McKennie had the ball in the net with an hour on the clock, heading home on the end of a Boga cross, but the American was deemed to have fouled Robin Gosens as the ball came across, and before he headed home.

Ten minutes later and seconds after the introductions of both Edon Zhegrova and Khephren Thuram, the former had a hand in what looked to be an equaliser. A loose ball fell his way, and he had a shot diverted across goal, from where Vlahovic tapped into an open goal. VAR intervened, though, and Vlahovic was ruled to have been offside. 

With the game into it’s final ten minutes, Yildiz looked to threaten again. After shifting the ball onto his left foot, his effort from outside the box dragged wide of De Gea’s goal.

Moments later and out of nowhere, Rolando Mandragora beat Di Gregorio with a fierce long-range strike of his own to double the visitors’ lead.

Boga, trying to halve the deficit, cut in from the left and hit a powerful strike of his own, but De Gea punched it clear.

There were to be no more goals, though, and the Viola took the points.

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