DBasia.news – Merih Demiral’s red card and Alvaro Morata’s three goals disallowed by the referee became a drama for Juventus’ 0-2 defeat to Barcelona in the Champions League match.
Match course
The match was fierce with fast intensity in the first 10 minutes. Andrea Pirlo played 4-2-3-1 at Juventus relying on Dejan Kulusevski, Paulo Dybala, Federico Chiesa and Alvaro Morata up front.
Meanwhile, Ronald Koeman’s Barcelona are still using the same tactics in the 4-2-3-1 formation. Antoine Griezmann is the spearhead, supported by the movements of Pedri, Lionel Messi and Ousmane Dembele. Miralem Pjanic played against his former club.
Just 14 minutes into the game a goal has been scored in Turin. Not for the hosts but for the visitors through a lucky Dembele. Affected by Chiesa’s deflection, Dembele’s shot rolled into the Juventus goal guarded by Wojciech Szczesny.
Messi almost scored Barca’s second goal when passing a one-two ball with Griezmann in the 23rd minute. However, his shot went wide on the side of the Juventus goal.
Juventus striker Alvaro Morata was supposed to score two goals in this match, but the first failed to result in offside and handball, while the second in the 30th minute was also for offside.
There were no more goals scored in this first half plus three minutes of added time. Barcelona temporarily winning 1-0 from a goal scored by Ousmane Dembele in the 14th minute.
Early in the second half Ronald Koeman stepped out Ronald Araujo and brought on Sergio Busquets. Barcelona still dominated the game and locked Juventus (forcing to survive). Morata scored again in the 57th minute and the goal was again disallowed for offside via VAR.
Koeman put Ansu Fati on in the 66th minute to replace the goalscorer Dembele. Koeman tried to inject new energy from the Barca bench to continue to suppress the Juventus defense. Chance after chance was generated in this match but did not result in a goal.
Juventus continued to give everything but at the end of the match Barcelona ‘killed’ the match with the winner. Just in the 90 + 1 minute Messi converted from a penalty when Federico Bernardeschi brought down Fati in the box.
The situation was even more unfortunate for Juventus because they played with 10 players after Merih Demiral was sent off in the 85th minute. Until the end of the match there were no more goals scored and Juventus lost 0-2 to Barcelona in Turin.