In addition, Lazio Rome (2nd place) lost their away game against Atalanta Bergamo on Wednesday. If there are, then Juve's path towards a ninth straight title will be even clearer. Because of Bentancur´s movement from the centre of the pitch to the sideline, he opened up a big space. 6-keys: media/spln/soccer/reg/free/stories_howtowatch, at The thing is, Juve's backups would start for nearly all of the teams in Serie A. There was no excuse for a player of Ronaldo's calibre missing the first-half chance he did. In addition, Lazio Rome (2nd place) lost their away game against Atalanta Bergamo on Wednesday. So, it was just a matter of time until they would score the 3:0 (Gonzalo Higuaín) and 4:0 (Matthijs De Ligt). This is why they had no chance to even earn a draw against Juventus. Nevertheless, Lecce lost three of their last five encounters, with an important win against SPAL and a surprise win against Napoli. Juventus v Lecce Match Report, 26/06/2020. However, they will need to win the points in direct duels against their competitors in the relegation battle.

Ahead of the game, “la vecchia signora” was already in first place in the Serie A table. Nevertheless, the centre is completely closed by six Lecce players who were in a numerical superiority against Dybala, Ronaldo and Bernardeschi. In this tactical analysis, we will delve into the tactics that decided the match and provide an in-depth analysis on how Juventus wore down Lecce before seizing control of the match in the second half. Predictions Statistics Montreal Impact. After a weak first half, they were dominant in the second half and with the substitution of Costa, they finally used the spaces on the wings. Juventus´ play was full of negligence and even big counter-attacking situations were not played out efficiently. But he was at his brilliant best in the second, first laying on for Dybala to beat the otherwise brilliant Gabriel, before going on to score a penalty he earned himself and finishing a mazy run with an exquisite flick that, with a little help, found its way to Higuain to score Juve's third. Maurizio Sarri goes with some backups after a wild Champions League win over Lokomotiv Moscow, but Juve still wins easily. Because of the diagonal long-range pass to Lecce´s right wing-back, Lecce were able to hold the tempo high in their game and Juventus needed to move up to the ride side of the pitch.
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Juve has won its last five matches. 18 … De Ligt then nodded in Douglas Costa's corner as Juve ultimately ran out comfortable winners. June 26, 2020, 12:54 pm explore: Sports So, it happened that Juventus had the … Toronto. When looking at the line-ups, Juve were the huge favourite to win this match.
This helped them a lot by closing down any space in the centre. In the following image, Dybala wass in possession in a central area. Crucial for that was the good movement of Lecce´s central midfielders who always recognized the space in the central areas on the pitch and filled them. Tips and bets on the match — Betting Insider. NO MISTAKE FROM CR7!!!!!! In the half time, centre-back Luca Rossettini came in for the injured central midfielder Jacopo Petriccione. Juventus immediately took advantage of that. In the situation below, they have a 3-vs.-2 situation, but Ronaldo played a failed pass to Paulo Dybala. However, Lecce did a good job in the build-up play. That is how Liverani changed his backline to a five men defence again playing with a 5-3-1 formation.

Gabriel parried Adrien Rabiot's long-range shot and Ronaldo drilled wide of the right post as Juventus came to life and soon found themselves a man up. So, they made sure to stay very compact in their 5-3-2 shape as the distance between their first and their last line were approximately 15 meters. Costa's mazy dribble culminated in a centre for Ramsey, but the former Arsenal midfielder's first touch was slack. Peter Hanson .

Hellas Verona . Up until the red card there is an argument to say Lecce were the better team, certainly the more ambitious going forward. Therefore, they did not have possession in Juventus´ half anymore. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.

Juve still did not use the whole width and depth of the pitch and they were looking for solutions. His substitution ignited new momentum to Juventus´game in the second half. It was the first time that Lecce were unsorted and therefore, were not able to mark this area. The defence is particularly weak, having conceded 13 goals in the last three matches against Roma, Atalanta and Milan. Therefore, he changed in four positions as Brayan Vera, Nehuén Paz and Giulio Donati completed the backline and Yevgen Shakhov was used as the second striker together with Filippo Falco. In the following image, we can see Lecce´s 5-3-1 shape without possession. It was some response from the Portugal great.Lucioni's panic undoes Lecce's hard work. 46 minute. So, it happened that Juventus had the chance (at least for the time) to be ahead of Lazio by seven points. Ronaldo, who scored one goal and assisted two more goals, had two more big chances to score and to increase the result.