Juventus thrashed Cagliari 4-0 with objectives of outstanding high quality and ability from Dusan Vlahovic, Teun Koopmeiners, Francisco Conceicao and Nico Gonzalez to arrange a Coppa Italia quarter-final with Empoli.
These groups drew 1-1 right here on October 6 and Juve have been coming off 4 consecutive Serie A stalemates, jeered off the pitch on Saturday after a 2-2 with all-time low Venezia. With Douglas Luiz, Arkadiusz Milik, Jonas Rouhi, Gleison Bremer and Juan Cabal out of motion, defenders have been rested for Manuel Locatelli and Wes McKennie in surprising roles. The Sardinians made the journey with out Zito Luvumbo and Adam Obert, however their precedence was getting out of the league relegation zone.
Cagliari had an enormous alternative inside the opening 40 seconds, as Nadir Zortea rolled throughout from the proper for Gianluca Lapadula to return sliding in, Michele Di Gregorio making a determined response save along with his foot.
Dusan Vlahovic fired over from a decent angle after springing the offside entice on a Teun Koopmeiners help, then Kenan Yildiz had an acrobatic volley charged down from 12 yards by Mateusz Wieteska.
Francisco Conceicao’s left-foot strike curled simply vast of the far submit from the sting of the realm, then one other scorcher was palmed out of the highest nook by Simone Scuffet.
Juventus finally when Kenan Yildiz discovered Vlahovic from eight yards with a sensible go, the striker managed along with his again to purpose, turned on the spot and drilled it by means of Wieteska’s legs into the far backside nook.
The Bianconeri doubled their lead after the restart with an impressive free kick from Koopmeiners, who bent the ferocious left-foot end into the highest nook from a superb 30 yards out.
Vlahovic had the ball within the web moments later with a pleasant dinked end, however he was offside on the Khephren Thuram ball excessive.
Francisco Conceicao compelled an unorthodox Scuffet save on the close to submit, whereas Nico Gonzalez was unfortunate to see his free header from a nook deflected inches vast off Lapadula.
Vlahovic had his second disallowed purpose of the sport, once more for offside, with a diving header on the Francisco Conceicao roller that was going vast.
It ought to’ve been 3-0 on 78 minutes when Vlahovic caught Alessandro Deiola napping in midfield and surged ahead alone, however in making an attempt to go spherical Scuffet, he narrowed the angle an excessive amount of and will solely hit the side-netting.
As an alternative, Francisco Conceicao lastly acquired his purpose after a number of makes an attempt, slicing inside Jose Luis Palomino to bend it along with his left foot into the far backside nook.
Nico Gonzalez left the very best till final with a really extraordinary purpose, as he began the run from inside his personal half and at a full dash managed to lob Scuffet from the sting of the realm with outstanding precision.
Nico González with a bit of GENIUS! 😱
A fully scrumptious chip from exterior the field to make it 4-0 to Juventus ⚫⚪
Michele Di Gregorio stored the clear sheet, as Prati blasted straight at him throughout a well-worked Cagliari transfer.
Juventus 4-0 Cagliari
Vlahovic 44 (J), Koopmeiners 53 (J), Conceicao 80 (J), Nico Gonzalez 89 (J)
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