Juventus Dominates Fiorentina to Secure Second Place in Serie A

2023-11-05 22:11:43

Football

Juventus provides the essentials and consolidates its place as runner-up

The Old Lady won by the smallest of margins on the Fiorentina pitch (0-1) and remains two points behind the leader, Inter Milan.

PublishedNovember 5, 2023, 11:11 p.m.

Fabio Miretti scored the one and only goal of the match.

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Juventus consolidated its place as runner-up in Serie A, behind Inter Milan, thanks to its victory on Fiorentina (0-1) on Sunday evening during the 11th day. Thanks to this eighth league success of the season, the Bianconeri now have 26 points and remain two points behind the Interists, still firmly clinging to first place.

The Turinese put up a serious match, which they were able to make easier by opening the score early in the game. The young Fabio Miretti, 20 years old and trained at the club, made the difference for his team thanks to his first goal in the colors of the Old Lady. Miretti concluded a great action from Allegri’s team by cutting a cross from Serbian Filip Kostic at the near post (1-0, 10th).

Hermetic defense

The Viola then made timid attempts to equalize, without success, goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny repelling a free kick placed flush with the post by the captain of the Florentines, Cristiano Biraghi (45th).

In the second period, Fiorentina held the ball but was too uninspired to destabilize the solid Turin block, which has not conceded a single goal since September 23.

While it will host Inter at the end of the month, Juve therefore remains in 2nd place and increases its lead over AC Milan, beaten on Saturday on its home field by Udinese (0-1). With 22 points, the Rossoneri are now four points behind Adrien Rabiot’s teammates. Fiorentina (17 points) fell to 7th place.

AS Roma miraculously

Romelu Lukaku lets his joy explode following scoring the winning goal for AS Roma at the end of added time.

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Earlier on Sunday, Roma overthrew Lecce in the final moments to win 2-1 and move up to 8th place (17 points). Mourinho’s men were however trailing 1-0 at the start of added time, but the Iranian Sardar Azmoun (90th+1) and the Belgian Romelu Lukaku (90th+4), who had missed a penalty in the first period, allowed AS Rome to achieve an unexpected success.

Monza, for its part, climbed into the first half of the ranking (9th) by winning once morest Hellas Verona (1-3), while Cagliari dominated Silvan Hefti’s Genoa 2-1 (remained on the bench).

The 11th day will end on Monday with Frosinone-Empoli (6:30 p.m.) and Torino-Sassuolo (8:45 p.m.).

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