Juventus are at rock bottom after a deserved defeat to Monza, who celebrate their first ever Serie A victory thanks to Christian Gytkjaer, but Angel Di Maria was sent off for violent conduct.
These were two sides in complete crisis, as Max Allegri won just two out of eight competitive matches this season and was fresh from a midweek Champions League home defeat to Benfica. Meanwhile, the hosts sacked Giovanni Stroppa and promoted Raffaele Palladino from the youth team bench.
Juve had Arek Milik, Juan Cuadrado and coach Allegri suspended, with Manuel Locatelli, Adrien Rabiot, Alex Sandro, Federico Chiesa, Paul Pogba and Kaio Jorge injured. Monza missed Andrea Petagna, Marco D’Alessandro and Andrea Ranocchia after picking up their first ever Serie A point against Lecce.
The hosts had the better start, Patrick Ciurria blasting just over the bar and Stefano Sensi firing straight at Mattia Perin.
Juve were struggling to create any chances and the frustration got to Angel Di Maria, who was shown a straight red card for his obvious elbow into the chest of Armando Izzo. It was too clear a gesture to be ignored, a reaction foul after he was held. It was the former PSG man’s first League red card since April 2017 against Nice.
Gianluca Caprari blasted over after Federico Gatti gave it away and Dany Mota Carvalho really should’ve done better when prodding the Ciurria cross wide of the near post from six yards.
Christian Gytkjaer came off the bench and immediately turned a free header over the bar, while Carlos Augusto and Gytkjaer fired straight at Perin.
There was a Juventus counter-attack with Danilo’s slide-rule pass for Bremer, but Pablo Mari got back for a decisive tackle in the box.
Danilo also nodded a Leandro Paredes free kick over the bar, but Monza finally broke the deadlock when Ciurria again got down the right and put in a cross, Federico Gatti was caught the wrong side of Gytkjaer to come sliding in from six yards at the near post.
Juve tried to fight back in the closing stages, but much like the rest of the game, without any real test to Michele Di Gregorio.
Monza 1-0 Juventus
Gytkjaer 74 (M)
Sent off: Di Maria 41 (J)
New manager incoming
They are stuck as if they sack him they will need to pay him close to 30 million. So they have 2 choices keep him or sack him and get a very cheap manager in
De Zerbi would be a dream but Montero likeliest at this stage. Anything but more of this though,
😂😂😂
Calling gump. Is she in a protection program yet… Grande Palladino. Even a novice has brought down PhD Plonker. Monza have never won a game in the top flight. But cometh the 7/9, cometh the Old Zombie.
Maybe another logo redesign would help: perhaps a shape resembling one of Moggi’s 800 sim cards, or a baby crying with a full diaper…
he would have been sacked if this happened in the epl/la liga/ bundersliga – but not in old italy
@ boh – i say a hexygon design
when Dybala scored that wonderful goal, most
PhD Hiroshima, creator of atomic coma calcio better known now as old zombie must be given a lifetime contract for Monza’s history making moment.
fans of this corrupt team, said ‘MA! Era il Monza” Now what do you say?
A spectacular debut for Angel DiMalatia. It’s already the international break, and he’s produced more chest x-rays than goals. Forza Monza!
A truly hilarious weekend so far. Thank you Udinese and Monza.
With Dybala, Kulusevski, Ronaldo, De ligt, Bentancur, and most of all Pirlo, results like this wont be exist. Somewhere they’re all grateful they already left this circus.
The solution is clear. Send the 7/9 into a village amateur tour where they can play without any pressure and learn the basics all over again.
Lord was right. This is a zombified club.
Lord your haters will be in hiding for weeks. Credit to you for always being consistent with your messaging even when the team wins, draws and obviously loses.
Fire all Mr Agnelli !
Nedved, Arivabenne, Allegri
Bring Moggi back !
You should all be ashamed, keep your heads down, admit a dezastrous summer campaign, take it from 0 again !
Nedved is the only sane one in that group. Wanted to give Pirlo another year. Never wanted Allegri back. Agnelli is the biggest culprit.
They sold Dybala because they did not want to give him an extra 1.5m a year. But for some bizzare and somehat retarded reason, they thought putting Allegri on a 4 years contract worth 9 million a year was a sound financial decision.