Paulo Dybala wore the captain’s armband against Atalanta and scored the opener after eight minutes, as Juventus picked up a 3-1 win over their Serie A rivals.
The fans were back at the Allianz Stadium tonight, as Juventus picked up an important win one week ahead of the new campaign.
Dybala was back in the starting line-up on the same day as his contract talks were postponed until the end of the month, but Allegri shows his intentions with the Argentine by giving him the captaincy against La Dea.
Aaron Ramsey was back in the middle and tested a trident up front with Cristiano Ronaldo, Dybala and Federico Chiesa.
Atalanta gave Luis Muriel a chance up front and the Colombian grabbed a goal from the penalty spot to equalise Dybala’s opener.
But Federico Bernardeschi restored the lead before half-time with a goal in the 39th minute, before Alvaro Morata added a third in stoppages of the second half.
Juventus 3-1 Atalanta
Dybala 8 (J), Muriel 18 pen (A), Bernardeschi 39 (J), Morata 90+3 (J)
Juventus (4-3-3): Szczesny (Pinsoglio 82); Cuadrado, Bonucci (Chiellini 70), De Ligt (Rugani 71), Alex Sandro (Pellegrini 70); Bentancur (F. Ranocchia 82), Ramsey (Fagioli 78), Bernardeschi (De Sciglio 63); Chiesa (Kulusevski 54), Dybala (Morata 54), Ronaldo (McKennie 63)
Atalanta (3-4-2-1): Musso (Sportiello 82); Djimsiti (Toloi 59), Demiral (Lovato 82), Palomino (Da Riva 82); Maehle (Sutalo 71), Pasalic (Delprato 82), Freuler (De Roon 59), Gosens (Pezzella 71); Ilicic (Piccoli 71), Pessina (Scalvini 81); Muriel (Malinovskiy 59)
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