June 24, 2024



No Ronaldo, no wins for Juventus after losing at Napoli 2-1

No Cristiano Ronaldo. No successes for Juventus.

The Bianconeri stayed winless in Serie An and drooped to their second continuous loss since Ronaldo returned to Manchester United in the wake of losing at Napoli 2-1 on Saturday.

Napoli focus back Kalidou Koulibaly scored a short ways from time after Moise Kean mysteriously made a beeline for his own objective after a Napoli corner, setting up a tap-in for Koulibaly.

Matteo Politano balanced for Napoli close to the hour mark following Álvaro Morata’s opener for Juventus 10 minutes in at Diego Armando Maradona Stadium.

“We need to change the manner in which we play,” Juventus skipper Giorgio Chiellini said. “At the point when you have a genius like Ronaldo you can’t not play for him. … We ought to be appreciative to Cristiano for these years at Juventus however we need to continue on.”

Juventus stayed with only one point from a 2-2 draw at Udinese in its season opener. With Massimiliano Allegri having returned as Juventus mentor after Andrea Pirlo’s fruitless residency last season finished a run of nine straight Italian association titles, Juventus additionally lost at home to advanced Empoli before the global break.The misfortune to Empoli came a day after Ronaldo’s exchange, while this loss came on the day that Ronaldo scored twice in his first game and dominate for United in quite a while in the English Premier League.

“We put in a more regrettable presentation against Empoli yet today shockingly we took care of mistakes,” Allegri said. “In soccer, when you don’t win, you can just quiet down and buckle down.”

Juventus doesn’t have a lot of time to prepare, however, prior to heading out to Sweden for its Champions League opener against Malmö on Tuesday.

Napoli, in the interim, has won each of the three of its matches under new mentor Luciano Spalletti and moved three focuses clear of Lazio, Inter Milan, Roma, AC Milan and Fiorentina, which succeeded at Atalanta 2-1.

“I must say thanks to Spalletti for making the group strong,” Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis said of the previous Roma, Zenit St. Petersburg and Inter mentor. “I picked Spalletti in light of the fact that he’s steady, deliberate and handles things solidly, simply the manner in which I like it. You can converse with him and he doesn’t get annoyed on the off chance that you request a clarification, since he isn’t spooky by his conscience.”

The equalizer came when Juventus goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny didn’t do what’s needed to control a long-range twisted exertion from Lorenzo Insigne and Politano opened it in from close to the ‘guardian’s left post.

Morata’s objective came following a protective mistake from Kostas Manolas, who was endeavoring a misguided pass back to goalkeeper David Ospina. Morata took ownership all things considered and beat Ospina from a sharp point.

US midfielder Weston McKennie played the opening 72 minutes for Juventus in spite of being prohibited from a couple of U.S. World Cup qualifiers for disregarding the public group’s COVID-19 conventions.

McKennis additionally missed Juventus’ derby against Torino in April subsequent to abusing COVID-19 conventions in Italy.

Allegri required McKennie’s administrations in the wake of choosing not to utilize South American players Paulo Dybala, Juan Cuadrado, Rodrigo Bentancur, Danilo and Alex Sandro in light of the fact that they had recently gotten back from global obligation.

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