Juventus looked utterly toothless in this 0-0 draw away to Sampdoria, as the hosts hit the woodwork twice with Mehdi Leris and what was nearly a Dusan Vlahovic own goal.
The Bianconeri won their opening game 3-0 over Sassuolo, but were still missing Federico Chiesa, Angel Di Maria, Paul Pogba, Wojciech Szczesny and Kaio Jorge. Arthur Melo was frozen out pending a transfer and Leonardo Bonucci only fit for the bench, so Daniele Rugani stepped in and Adrien Rabiot returned from suspension after his move to Manchester United broke down. Samp had Manuel De Luca, Andrea Conti and Simone Trimboli on the absentee list after their defeat to Atalanta.
The hosts had a huge opportunity after seven minutes when Abdelhamid Sabiri’s slide-rule pass sent Mehdi Leris clear and Mattia Perin got something on it to push the finish onto the crossbar, glad to see it rebound back into his grateful arms.
Juan Cuadrado pounced on a Tommaso Augello error only to fire straight at Emil Audero, but Vlahovic risked scoring an own goal with his clumsy clearance on a Sabiri corner, scuffing it onto the upright.
A deflected Kostic effort looped up, pushed over by Audero, Dusan Vlahovic hit the side-netting and Manuel Locatelli’s shot was charged down.
Juventus had the ball in the net on 65 minutes when Fabio Miretti robbed Tomas Rincon, threaded through for Vlahovic to lay it off for Rabiot to sweep home from 12 yards. However, it was disallowed using VAR because Vlahovic was in an offside position.
Mattia De Sciglio had to time the interception perfectly to stop Leris going clear on goal from a Fabio Quagliarella pass.
Quagliarella also threatened in the final minute, his flick going inches wide on a Valerio Verre assist.
Deep into stoppages, Kostic thought he’d won it on his full debut, but the volley into the ground on a Moise Kean cross was brilliantly parried by Emil Audero.
Bremer was ready to nod in a corner at the back post, but Kean accidentally took it off him, much to the anger of Allegri.
Sampdoria 0-0 Juventus
Get Allegri out!!!!! Old man has NO ideas, NO creativity and NO game plan!
Allegri must be thrilled. Slow pace and winning a point and 96 minutes for the world star Rabiot. WOW.
What a disgrace we are. Make two goal scoring chances the whole game, without Di Maria we are nothing
What can you expect with Rabiot and McKennie in midfield. Absolutely clueless. Then Alegri will blame “individual technical mistakes” on another poor performance. He’s a coward.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
SAMPDORIA lol. Put the 7/9 in England and relegation would be their fate. Nottingham Forest would take them to the cleaners.
New 5 yr contract and pay rise is a must for BC Fossil era Max. The genius to start slowly and continue the back, back, down, down for 96 minutes.
Lord, cannot argue with anything you have said. You have been repeating this since the day Allegri returned. Everyone should apologise to you for doubting your wisdom in seeing the train wreck.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA CALMA CALMA everything is under control
Loca must be sold
#KillAllegri
Hope the most expensive coach in Serie A gets a contract extension!
LO CHAMPIONS MAI LO VINCERAI
@Cypher you are keeping very quiet as you have not addressed the good lord.
That shinter minion went AWOL last week didn’t he.
He will disappear after the next win so it means we won’t be seeing him more than 10 times this season.
@Cypher I highly doubt that we are getting anything against Roma. It already looks like last season on re run at vhs speed.