Post by Salem6 on Oct 31, 2008 8:17:30 GMT
Serie A Week 9 - 29/10/08 (19.30 UK)
Bologna 1 - 2 Juventus
Nedved 12, 57 (J), Di Vaio 75 (B)
Stadio Dall'Ara
Pavel Nedved's brace sunk sorry Bologna and continued Juve's revival.
The Bianconeri were back in business after victories over Real Madrid and Torino, but still five points adrift of the leaders and struggling with a massive injury crisis. Mauro Camoranesi and Tiago Mendes were fit for the bench, but Alessandro Del Piero and Nicola Legrottaglie joined the likes of Gigi Buffon, David Trezeguet, Cristiano Zanetti, Jonathan Zebina, Christian Poulsen, Zdenek Grygera, Hasan Salihamidzic, Claudio Marchisio and Paolo De Ceglie on the treatment table.
Bologna boss Daniele Arrigoni was hanging by a thread, as a 3-1 win over Lazio was his only success among a string of six defeats. To make matters worse, Juve were unbeaten here in 10 years and the home side was missing Sergio Volpi.
Bologna had the first chance, as a sliding Dario Knezevic tackle was decisive in deflecting Marco Di Vaio's snapshot round the near post.
Moments later Juventus took the lead through veteran Pavel Nedved's solo effort. He squirmed between two defenders in the penalty area and thumped his right-foot finish in at the near post.
There were penalty appeals for an Olof Mellberg coming together with Massimo Marazzina, but Bologna were desperately disappointing and never approached the opposition goal in the first half.
Meanwhile, Tiago Mendes' smart pass found Marco Marchionni unmarked in the box, but the former Empoli winger's first touch let him down.
Juve nearly doubled their advantage five minutes after the restart, as Nedved again went on a mazy run and chipped the cross for Amauri's looping header on to the upright.
Marazzina finally went close to the Bianconeri goal, but was offside on Bombardini's pass and fired straight at Alex Manninger anyway.
Nedved doubled Juve's lead, although technically it was an own goal. His cross from the byline took a massive deflection off Marchini to squirm past Francesco Antonioli at the near post.
Amauri's counter-attack was too weak and close to the goalkeeper and Bologna got back into it with a goal from former Juve man Marco Di Vaio. His acrobatic diving header redirected a long free kick from six yards, as he got in front of Christian Molinaro.
Marazzina thought he had equalised with a spectacular diving header, but it was ruled offside in a very tight decision.
Tiago added to Juve's extraordinary injury list, while Marazzina and Marchionni had chances.
Manninger was at full stretch to close down Di Vaio, while Iaquinta tested Antonioli on the counter.
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Bologna: Antonioli; Moras, Castellini, Terzi; Zenoni (Marchini 46), Lavecchia (Bernacci 89), Mudingayi, Mingazzini (Carrus 67), Bombardini; Di Vaio, Marazzina
Juventus: Manninger; Mellberg, Knezevic, Chiellini, Molinaro; Marchionni, Tiago (Camoranesi 84), Sissoko (Ekdal 60), Nedved; Iaquinta, Amauri (Giovinco 70)
Ref: Trefoloni
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