Duvan Zapata pounced on a defensive error to give Atalanta their first Serie A victory in Turin since 1989, as Paulo Dybala and Juventus were denied by the crossbar in stoppages.

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Serie A Highlights: Juventus 0-1 Atalanta

The Bianconeri needed to get back on track after a humiliating 4-0 midweek Champions League defeat at Chelsea. Paulo Dybala was back in the side after injury, but Aaron Ramsey, Mattia De Sciglio and Danilo were out of action, with Giorgio Chiellini and Federico Bernardeschi only fit for the bench. La Dea had Hans Hateboer back in the squad, but Robin Gosens and Matteo Lovato didn’t make the trip.

Dybala’s curler couldn’t surprise Juan Musso, while Rafael Toloi made a decisive last-ditch tackle on Federico Chiesa.

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Atalanta took the lead when Alvaro Morata gave it away in midfield, a Berat Djimsiti slide-rule pass allowed Duvan Zapata to spring the offside trap with Matthijs de Ligt hanging back and he smashed it in off the underside of the crossbar from a tricky angle.

Dybala scuffed wide from the edge of the area, but Chiesa pulled up on the stroke of half-time with an injury, making way for Federico Bernardeschi.

Juve struggled to create chances, Dybala firing over after a Berat Djimsiti risky back-pass to anticipate Weston McKennie.

The American also went off injured, while Adrien Rabiot’s daisy-cutter from the edge of the box was fingertipped inches wide by Juan Musso.

While Atalanta were pinned back for the entire second half, they did threaten on the counter when Ruslan Malinovskyi’s short was charged down, Cuadrado did just enough to stop Mario Pasalic getting the rebound and then it was fired onto the side-netting.

Matthijs de Ligt had a shot charged down from a corner and penalty appeals were rejected for handball, as it grazed Djimsiti’s shoulder.

Deep into stoppages, Dybala floated a free kick over the wall and away from Musso, but it bounced off the top of the crossbar.

La Dea kept a rare clean sheet for this even rarer win in Turin.

Juventus 0-1 Atalanta

Duvan Zapata 28 (A)

12 thought on “Serie A | Juventus 0-1 Atalanta: Duvan Zapata dooms the Old Lady”
  1. Allegri will say this is progress as Juventus did not concede 4 goals and only the one despite being the home side. Allegri will put the team back into a ritiro and ask them to read all 1000 pages of the catenaccio bible he wrote. Allegri will blame the back pass for the defeat.

    Yet another match and cannot move the ball, keep the ball, back pass, sideways pass and failure to complete 3 passes in a row.

    No CL since the fossil era. Under investigation yet again and no European football next year. On the plus side Chiesa wil leave to fulfil his destiny, De Ligt will be sold to generate money and Dybala will be given a new £11 million contract per season. Ramsay will asked to stay, Rabiot another extension and Bentancur will be asked to take on the captaincy.

    The best is yet to come as I heard Juventus are now shopping in the English second division better known as the championship. Cherubini thought that Fulham were still in the PL. Mighty Mitrovic will be presented as the new Trezeguet.

    Agnelli will be asking Cherubini to go to the fruit and veg market to pickup more decaying fruit. Next will be a trip to a car boot sale and followed by a stop in the local flea market to see if their are any second hand rugs for sale.

    I guess asking Commisso for Vlahovic must have been rebuked. I think they offered £5, 2 free coupons, a loan deal for 8 years in instalments, 2 goats and a wicker basket. Commisso must have told them to look at Mitrovic, he is also Serbian.

  2. And their fans seriously think the whole accounting fraud was made up to drag down Juve. Their head is so far up their rear that they can’t even see their team are imploding on their own. No need to create a scandal when Juve are already doing their best being mediocre. They blamed Ronaldo and now they’ll blame the Italian government too because apparently every single officials in Italy hates Juve with passion (lmao).

    Personal accountability goes brrr..

  3. I think Andrea Agnelli is a rouge owner. He falls out with Conte in 2014 over a lack of investment, he fires Allegri in 2019, after spending an over inflated transfer fee of £90 million for a 33 year old Ronaldo in 2018, and he then employs Sarri and Pirlo to help Juve win the Champions’ League and fails again by 2020 He re employs Allegri 6 months ago, only to see the legacy that had been built by Conte and Allegri destroyed by his own failed attempts to make his club rich without respect and authenticity to the fans. The European Super League was Agnelli’s idea and we all know what that has done to Juventus‘ level of respect among the world, as a potential destruction of grass roots football for the sake of money in his and ownerships pockets 18 months ago.
    Agnelli deserves the demise of Juventus, and I don’t think Allegri or the current playing staff give a damn because they know he is fraud. He should resign along with his cronies in Nedved and anyone else at board level. He has inherited wealth and blown it with selfish bad decisions for Juventus.

  4. I told you guys to calm down with a few results here and there. The Lazio game exposed what was already there. We got lucky and played the exact , predictable way. The Chelsea match exposed all our flaws. When I said trust my words that we we would not get a reaction, I was proved correct. Falling from grace is the best thing needed. We are like an alcoholic and we need to hit rock bottom to realise that we need help. In the last few years we ignored the faults because we still won. The truth is we became arrogant and complacent in every department starting from the top. I am calm as I expected a defeat. Getting no CL is the best thing that could happen to us. If that means selling the few stars including defaulting on the Chiesa loan, it will be painful but necessary. Missing out on the top tournament will maybe I hope make us wake up and throw out all the dead wood. Mark my words there will be no reaction away to Salernitana. We might get the 1-0 but not the effort. This is the worst Juventus side I can remember. Even in the days of of Marchesi and Maifredi we did not win but at least there was respect for the shirt and effort. Allegri is showing the football that made ACM sack him. The 5 Scudetti were won with no competition and yes the Conte foundations.

  5. Our season is over!
    We’ve got no chance in next round in the UCL, drifting further away from the top 4.
    As long as Allegri is still coach it’s only going to get worse, but I can’t see the useless board doing anything about till next season.

  6. All hail Lord Allegri, cometh the man, cometh the defeat.

    Even a sunday league park coach could try something different but I guess the catenaccio bible remains supreme.

  7. I am expecting a huge point deduction from the transfer fraud case and I dont think allegri will ever learn new metodo than zombie football as his effort to preserve our current status as joke club for years to come which will prevent any serious talented players other than 33+ yo-finished-dudes to join. Current squad has already lose their motivation and would stop fighting altogether because they know as long as Agnelli still around he will always keep his pet Allegri with him and that means they have to forget about fulfill their potential and instead will be remembered one day as a failed player because they ended up at this club with Allegri too long and they would already finished when they finally move on.
    I would say this season we should aim to fight for surviving Serie A. I personally would love a relegation. Not by a sentence though. I want us go down to B because dont have what it takes technically to be in Serie A. I want us keep losing matches until we know we dont deserve to be here.

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