The Portuguese is an infiltrator. The first heavyweight championship match in the championship - first against second, favored against the main rival championship - proves that Cristiano Ronaldo is of another level even in such a prestigious context. Juventus beat Napoli with a double by Mandzukic and a goal by Bonucci, it went to +6 in the standings and honored the World Cycling Championships with the first escape of the championship. CR7 does not score but is decisive, the man also started more than Mandzukic. It is seen in three moments. First: in the difficulties of the first half, with Napoli ahead and Juve still in the locker room, Ronaldo kicks twice in the goal and gives Mandzukic a ball only to push into the goal. It's 1-1. Second: at the beginning of the second half, with the game still in balance, Cristiano turns a restart of Dybala in 2-1. On his shot from afar,
Ospina deflects on the post and Mandzukic still touches an empty net. Third: when Napoli, ten for the double yellow to Mario Rui, seems incredibly close to put the game back on its feet, Ronaldo heads a corner from the right. The ball, direct on goal, ends up on the feet of Bonucci who leans - at an empty goal ... and there are three - the ball at the end of the evening. Quick and simplistic conclusion: Juve is the best (of Italy, for now) also because it has the best, while Napoli is not ready for Everest yet.
Yet Juventus had started badly, against the trend. The curve does not sing and Ancelotti initially seems to have the game in his hand with his 4-4-2 atypical. Zielinski takes a 25-meter pole, Insigne shoots immediately and Mertens after 10 minutes clears the first chants of the stadium with the goal of the advantage. Bonucci misses a pass in construction for Dybala,
Allan anticipates the Argentine and has the door in the face 30 meters from Szczesny. The pinball machine that was born - Allan for Callejon, Callejon first of all for Mertens, Mertens of touch with an empty net - sends Napoli ahead as in the April game. In these five months, however, a bit 'of things have happened, one above all: Cristiano Ronaldo has changed his address. So Cristiano in the first quarter of an hour kicks from a distance twice, the second after a great control on the fly, and twice finds Ospina. Mandzukic's equalizing goal cancels the illusion of Napoli and Juventus take a check that will essentially never lose until the end. Between 1-1 and 2-1 of the Croatian, who arrived at the beginning of the second half after Ronaldo's long-range shot, in fact Napoli only dreamed of Mario Rui just before the interval and risked a lot when a free-kick Ronaldo, always him, unleashes a melee closed by a deviation of Hamsik on Pjanic's shot. The rest is an inclined plane: the expulsion of Mario Rui, a missed opportunity by Callejon and the 3-1 of Bonucci.
JUVENTUS SOLIDA - Juventus, as requested by Allegri on the eve, has been solid, concrete rather than scintillating. In the middle of the field he won the challenge against Hamsik and Allan, he found an Emre Can cuirassier version and was saved by Szczesny in the perhaps most important action of the match: 18 minutes from the end, he saved a shot from Callejon that was released in the area. Dybala, the owner, generated the action of 2-1 and Bonucci, guilty of the first goal, was redeemed with 3-1. All happy. Paradoxically, the only one who was desperate in the end was Ronaldo. He wanted the goal at all costs (as always ...) but he missed an uncomplicated one in the second half. Not bad: it has a week to rest and think about Udinese.
NAPOLI LEGGERO - Naples instead returns home disillusioned. Insigne, the man image, has never really affected, Hamsik has suffered a lot in the middle and the full-backs, who in a team are not so secondary, have struggled: Hysaj jumped on the first goal, Mario Rui expelled for two fouls on Pjanic. Even Albiol and Koulibaly, together for a lifetime, did not move well in the action of a draw. Cristiano found himself one on the left with Hysaj and he jumped it easy, then he crossed with the southpaw. Emre Can cut into the area and, on the crossroads with Mandzukic, Albiol and Koulibaly made the same choice: they worried about the German with 23. Mandzukic, only left in the area, kindly thanked him. Ancelotti tried with Fabian Ruiz and Milik, without success because against teams like Juve goes like this: the opportunity passes twice when it's ok, more often one. If you do not take it, stay in second place, at risk overtaking Sassuolo.
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