Luciano Spalletti stunned with tactical experiments on his Juventus debut, nevertheless it proved efficient with a 2-1 victory away to Jamie Vardy’s Cremonese determined by Filip Kostic and Andrea Cambiaso.
The Bianconeri sacked Igor Tudor on Monday and beat Udinese 3-1 on Wednesday underneath caretaker supervisor Massimo Brambilla, ending their eight-match winless streak in all competitors and 4 video games with out scoring. and made his debut 48 hours later, however couldn’t rely on injured Kenan Yildiz, Lloyd Kelly, Gleison Bremer, Juan Cabal, Arek Milik and Carlo Pinsoglio. After only one coaching session, he reworked them with Teun Koopmeiners within the centre of a three-man defence. have been unbeaten in three and coming off a midweek 2-0 victory away to Genoa, which put them in eighth place. Antonio Sanabria, Giuseppe Pezzella, Alessio Zerbin, Alberto Grassi, Michele Collocolo and Faris Moumbagna have been unavailable.
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CREMONA, ITALY – NOVEMBER 01: Coach Luciano Spalletti of Juventus FC reacts earlier than the Serie A match between US Cremonese and Juventus FC at Stadio Giovanni Zini on November 01, 2025 in Cremona, Italy. (Picture by Marco M. Mantovani/Getty Photographs)
It took simply 85 seconds to get the primary purpose of the Spalletti period, as Lois Openda’s back-heel flick was meant to be for Dusan Vlahovic, who was surrounded by defenders, however the fortunate ricochet off Jari Vandeputte discovered Kostic undisturbed to comb dwelling on the again put up. It was the right method to have fun his thirty third birthday, together with his first Serie A purpose since March 2023 in opposition to Inter.
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Vlahovic surged ahead and stung Emil Audero’s gloves from a difficult angle, nevertheless it was practically 2-0 on 26 minutes when Manuel Locatelli’s daisy-cutter from the sting of the world was palmed into the bottom of the far put up.
CREMONA, ITALY – NOVEMBER 01: Filip Kostic of Juventus FC celebrates after scoring the 0-1 purpose through the Serie A match between US Cremonese and Juventus FC at Stadio Giovanni Zini on November 01, 2025 in Cremona, Italy. (Picture by Marco M. Mantovani/Getty Photographs)
One other Vlahovic snapshot examined Audero, whereas Martin Payero was already heading to floor earlier than the Federico Gatti problem contained in the penalty space.
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Openda hit the side-netting from a decent angle and drilled simply large of the close to put up, whereas Locatelli blasted over from the sting of the world.
Cremonese stepped up the stress after the restart with a collection of corners, and Michele Di Gregorio made a difficult save on the Jari Vandeputte scorcher, nevertheless it wouldn’t have counted as Jamie Vardy pulled it out of play within the build-up.
Tommaso Barbieri’s effort was deflected over and he then had penalty appeals rejected for a slight Kostic nudge within the again. Filippo Terracciano cleared a Kostic try off the road, however Vlahovic had already fouled Audero.
CREMONA, ITALY – NOVEMBER 01: Andrea Cambiaso of Juventus FC celebrates after scoring the 0-2 purpose through the Serie A match between US Cremonese and Juventus FC at Stadio Giovanni Zini on November 01, 2025 in Cremona, Italy. (Picture by Marco M. Mantovani/Getty Photographs)
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Vlahovic was at full stretch and will solely graze the tried tap-in on a wise Weston McKennie roll throughout from the left.
Simply as Cremonese have been pushing exhausting for the equaliser, Juventus doubled their lead. Francisco Conceicao pulled again from the precise by-line, Federico Baschirotto prevented Vlahovic from tapping in, however solely pushed it again to Cambiaso to blast in off the underside of the bar from 12 yards, regardless of the Audero save.
Nonetheless, it wasn’t over, as Dennis Johnsen pumped an extended ball excessive, Vardy received the bodily tussle with Federico Gatti and surged ahead to beat Di Gregorio with an angled drive into the far backside nook to arrange the tense finale.
Cremonese 1-2 Juventus
Kostic 2 (J), Cambiaso 68 (J), Vardy 83 (C)