Danilo snatched a last-gasp point for Juventus to retain fourth place and cancel out a Ruslan Malinovskyi scorcher that had Atalanta dreaming.
This was a head-to-head for fourth place, although La Dea do still have a game in hand. Duvan Zapata, Josip Ilicic, Aleksei Miranchuk and Jose Luis Palomino were unavailable, plus goalkeeper Juan Musso suspended. Juve missed Giorgio Chiellini, Federico Bernardeschi and Federico Chiesa, but again started the all-star trident.
This was Dusan Vlahovic’s 100th Serie A game and within three minutes he forced Marco Sportiello to fingertip a shot out from under the crossbar.
Paulo Dybala cut inside from the right and curled just wide rather than pass to Vlahovic, while Marten de Roon couldn’t keep it down when a corner was flicked on to the back post.
Juventus ran a huge risk on 32 minutes, as Wojciech Szczesny came flying into midfield to close down Teun Koopmeiners, fortunate to avoid much contact and therefore a red card, while Muriel’s weak finish was cleared off the line by Leonardo Bonucci.
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Danilo was booked for taking down Boga and will be suspended for the Derby della Mole. Boga’s pace was causing problems and he twice surged into the box in three minutes, both times denied by a desperate Matthijs de Ligt block. The Dutchman’s arm was raised on the first incident, but the ball hit his ribs.
Straight after the restart, Szczesny got down to palm a Marten de Roon curler out of the bottom corner, while Sportiello flew to palm a Vlahovic volley out from under the bar.
Boga’s scuffed effort turned into an accidental assist for Koopmeiners, who came sliding in at the back post and was inches away from connecting with it.
Berat Djimsiti risked an own goal when he nodded a corner just wide, while De Ligt again got the block in on Koopmeiners to deflect his shot off target.
Atalanta finally took the lead with a moment of magic, as a free kick was touched on for the absolute rocket of a Malinovskyi left-foot strike from 20 metres out into the far top corner, giving Szczesny no chance.
It remained wide open, Merih Demiral making a decisive sliding tackle although Vlahovic was flagged offside, then De Ligt with another block after the Malinovskyi slalom through defenders.
Atalanta somehow failed to go 2-0 up on 84 minutes, as Malinovskyi floated a ball to the back post, where Hans Hateboer volleyed it onto the crossbar from point-blank range.
Deep into stoppages, Juventus managed to avoid their third consecutive Serie A defeat to Atalanta, because Dybala’s corner found a Danilo header into the far top corner.
Atalanta 1-1 Juventus
Malinovskyi 76 (A), Danilo 92 (J)
Hello everybody, I have one question. Maybe someone have Allegri mobile phone number? Because I need to talk little bit with him about Rabiot role in the team!
Good game, but doesn’t do much for either.
Hateboer should have headed his chance in instead of side-footing it.
Totally forgot that Atalanta have a game in hand on Juve, and can leapfrog them if they win that match.
Good luck to Juve for the rest of the season. Nice draw.
FORZA Juve
Rabiot is the only left footed CM in team, Max tried others in left central midfielder position, including Bernardeschi, unfortunately Rabiot is the best Juve have on this position(((
He is uselles player
Rabiot is better than Arthur & McKennie
Juve lost 2 points here. They allowed Atalanta back into the game. Juve will def struggle against marginally better teams. Besides, why did Allegri wait so long to make the subs?