Muric: ‘Felt assured I may save Juventus penalty’

Arijanet Muric reveals he felt ‘assured’ going through the Manuel Locatelli penalty and there was a ‘way more troublesome’ save to

It was a dramatic night in Turin, partly for the build-up as a result of Sassuolo had been lacking 4 injured gamers, plus Nemanja Matic, Kristian Thorstvedt, Woyo Coulibaly and Stefano Turati who had been left behind

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The highly-infectious illness of the respiratory system swept by way of the squad and made it a very troublesome scenario to take care of.

Nonetheless, they got here again from the Kenan Yildiz strike with Andrea Pinamonti, then late on Muric smothered the Locatelli spot-kick.

Muric and Sassuolo snatched end result

TURIN, ITALY – MARCH 21: Manuel Locatelli of Juventus has a penalty saved through the Serie A match between Juventus FC and US Sassuolo Calcio at Allianz Stadium on March 21, 2026 in Turin, Italy. (Picture by Valerio Pennicino/Getty Photographs)

“I feel the group did very effectively, it’s all about power, we had it spot on at present, created numerous possibilities as effectively, so I feel we deserved to go dwelling with a degree,”

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Juventus have now didn’t convert three consecutive Serie A penalties, after Kenan Yildiz and Jonathan David errors, so what was Muric pondering when Locatelli stepped up?

“It was a few feeling, the second he kicked it, I assumed I’m going to put it aside. I used to be feeling assured. The header from Milik was way more troublesome, however I managed to maintain that out too, so it’s an awesome day.”

TURIN, ITALY – MARCH 21: Domenico Berardi of US Sassuolo Calcio crosses the ball while below stress from Andrea Cambiaso of Juventus through the Serie A match between Juventus FC and US Sassuolo Calcio at Allianz Stadium on March 21, 2026 in Turin, Italy. (Picture by Valerio Pennicino/Getty Photographs)

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Sassuolo captain Domenico Berardi additionally congratulated Muric on his Serie A Man of the Match standing.

“Aro has been giving us a giant hand for some time now, he’s received nice qualities and has been impressing for a while,”

“We got here right here to have our say towards an awesome opponent. Juventus are doing very well, however we managed to remain within the sport after going behind, performed with sacrifice, but in addition high quality and good passing. We’re comfortable to go dwelling with a end result.”

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