Rome – Rome (AP) – New Juventus Igor Tudor coach He had a direct role in Biantoneri’s first goal since he replaced dismissal Thiago Motta.
Tudor hastened to gather a ball in the bench and throw it to Teun Koopmeiners for a shadow that bounced in Dusan Vlahovic and towards the path of Kenan Yildiz. He dribute the defense before scoring from an angle tight in the middle of the first half.
“It just happened,” said Tudor. “It wasn’t something we practice.”
The objective ended up being decisive in a 1-0 victory against Genoa during the debut of Tudor in the series A Saturday.
The result was a strong change of the defeats of 4-0 and 3-0 in the two previous games of Juventus, which led to Motta’s shots.
The Bianconeri granted only a decent opportunity for a Genoa team trained by former Juventus Patrick Vieira player, an acrobatic effort by Andrea Pinamonti at the beginning of the second half that barely lost the goal.
Juventus almost doubled the advantage with a series of opportunities in the last minutes.
“I am very satisfied, because Genoa is a serious squad that is working well and running,” Tudor said. “We have had two or three training sessions and there has been some enthusiasm, but you don’t get a period like that in two or three days. We need to overcome it hard working.”
Juventus remained fifth, a point behind Bologna, which won in Venezia 1-0 before.
Vlahovic and Yildiz, who fought under Motta, Tudor gave him more responsibility and immediately paid the new coach.
A negative note for Juventus was an apparent injury for the key defender Federico Gatti during the first half.
Bologna won his consecutive fifth with a volley in the second half of Riccardo Orsolini.
As and Empoli drew 1-1.
Police intervened to avoid clashes among rival fans before the Rome party in Lecce later.
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