Juventus will return early from Saudi Arabia, their participation in this season’s Supercoppa Italiana already over after a disappointing 2-1 defeat to AC Milan in the semi-final stage.
The Bianconeri went to their first trophy under coach Thiago Motta, but instead they have become the first victims of Sergio Concecoo era in Milan, since their parties at war secured a position in the final of Monday.
The two groups arrived at the Al-Awwal Park Stadium in Riad in assaulted wounds, the passage from Milan to the 4-3-3 Formula of Concicao hindered the absence of Rafael Leao while joining Samuel Chukwueze, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Alesandro Florenzi in the remedy in the bedroom remedy.
Meanwhile, Juve’s long term absentees – Gleison Bremer, Juan Cabal and Arkadiusz Milik – have left them desperate for reinforcements during this month’s transfer window, as discussed in this previous column.
These wounds were annoying in the warm -up prior to the party where Francisco Concicao forced to retire from the eleventh of Juve, a muscular challenge replaced through Kenan Yildiz.
However, this replacement has paid instant dividends, while the foreign Türkiye sprinkles in the area in the back to the right, clinging to a bullet through Samuel Mbangula and leading the ball in the upper corner.
From there, Juve obviously had control, some other wise effort of Yildiz’s first part denied through a wise backup copy of Mike Maignan. The period did not do much to replace the game of the game, and Juve deserves to have two goals in advance after Kenan Yildiz impestopable raised a gold possibility just to see Dusan Vlahovic divert it in a way -array
That wastefulness seemed to spark Milan into life, Theo Hernandez wasting a similarly simple chance to equalise, then Michele Di Gregorio needing a good save to deny Tijjani Reijnders.
It was only delaying the inevitable however, and when Manuel Locatelli brought down Christian Pulisic in the area, the US international picked himself up and made no mistake from the spot.
Great defending from Weston McKennie would prevent Alvaro Morata from converting a chance to put the Rossoneri ahead, but it only took four minutes for Milan to complete their comeback.
Away down the right flank, Yunus Musah was looking to pick out a team-mate only for his cross to deflect off Federico Gatti and into the back of the net. Di Gregorio was called into action after another counter attack, but the damage was already done and Juve would lose for only the second time this season.
“Yes this is an important defeat,” Thiago Motta admitted as he spoke to Sport Mediaset shortly after the final whistle. “It is disappointing, I feel that we had a big, big chance to beat Milan and we were unable to do it.
“We need to improve our character because we were in control, we created chances to kill the game and didn’t do it. Character comes into play when a negative incident happens and you must be able to react. At the first negative incident today, we did not react and wasted the opportunity to play in the Final, which for 70 minutes was entirely in our hands.”
“Today we were better than our opponents in many ways, but with very little effort, our opponents managed to turn it around. Negative incidents happen, but we did not react the right way.”
It is impossible to argue with that analysis, but now the Coach now has to ensure those words are heeded by his team before Juventus return to action in crucial fixtures against Torino and Atalanta.
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