Juve 2-2 Atalanta, 2 Penalties from Cristiano Ronaldo Saves the Old Lady

DBasia.news – Juventus had to be willing to share points when hosting Atalanta in the 32nd week of the Italian League. Playing at the Allianz Stadium, Sunday (7/12/2020) AM, the match between Juventus vs Atalanta ended in a draw with a score of 2-2.

Atalanta had twice won over the host through goals scored by Duvan Zapata (16 ‘) and Ruslan Malinovskiy (80′). But Juventus also twice scored the equalizer through Cristiano Ronaldo’a penalty (55 ’90’).

The first penalty was given when Marten de Roon did a handball, as well as the second penalty when the ball hit Luis Muriel’s arm – both handball was done accidentally on the player’s arm.

“These are the rules, okay, after all they are above all the rules in Italy,” said Gian Piero Gasperini, Atalanta coach told DAZN.

“What should we do, cut our arms? The most you can do is put your arms in front of your body. This is not the first penalty that we have seen, there are many things throughout the season, with many teams.”

“Insanity and interpretation of rules are not the same here as in other places. Other countries do not provide such a penalty. This is the rule here, okay.”

That result was enough to keep Juventus away from Lazio in the race for the Scudetto. Juve, directed by Maurizio Sarri are at the top of the standings with 76 points, eight points adrift of Lazio who are in second and nine points adrift of Atalanta in second place.

Two goals from Ronaldo increased the number of goals in Serie A this season to 28 goals. According to Squawka’s records, no player in the top five European leagues has scored more penalty goals this season than Ronaldo (11 goals from 11 penalties).

The highlights of the match were not only from penalties and penalty goals scored by Ronaldo, but also Atalanta who approached the 64-year-old record after breaking down Juve’s goal guarded by Wojciech Szczesny.

Added by Opta, Atalanta has always scored in 20 consecutive Serie A matches. This is the best record in the competition since the 1955-56 season in 23 consecutive matches. The goals from Zapata also added to the slick notes of Atalanta who previously won nine times in a row.

Zapata has scored 15 goals in Serie A along with Josip Ilicic, while Luis Muriel has 17 goals. As a result Atalanta became the first team with three players to score 15 or more goals in one Serie A.

Muriel 17 goals, Ilicic and Zapata 15 goals. This was the first time since the trio of Juventus in the 1951-52 season of Giampiero Boniperti, John Hansen and Ermes Muccinelli had inscribed.