Post by Salem6 on Sept 12, 2011 7:15:29 GMT
Juventus 4 - 1 Parma
Lichtsteiner 16 (J), Pepe 57 (J), Vidal 73 (J), Marchisio 83 (J), Giovinco pen 91 (P)
Juventus Stadium
Juventus crushed Parma 4-1 with an inspirational Andrea Pirlo and stunners from Arturo Vidal, Stephan Lichtsteiner and Claudio Marchisio.
It was the beginning of a new era in Turin, as Antonio Conte made his official debut on the bench in their brand new state of the art stadium. Inaugurated on Thursday, the Juventus Stadium is the only one in Serie A owned by a club and was packed to the rafters for this game. There were still visible marks on the field from the opening ceremony.
However, Parma hoped to cause problems, as they had won their last three meetings with Juve home and away. Vincenzo Iaquinta, Fabio Quagliarella, Marcelo Estigarribia and Fabio Grosso were in the stands, with Mirko Vucinic and Milos Krasic not 100 per cent fit in Conte's revolutionary 4-2-4 system, while the Ducali missed Raffaele Palladino, Massimo Gobbi and Jaime Valdes.
Alessandro Lucarelli almost gave away a penalty in the opening minutes with a clumsy challenge on Alessandro Matri.
Juventus broke the deadlock with their first real opportunity. Andrea Pirlo inspired with a chipped pass over the defence, as Stephan Lichtsteiner sprung the offside trap and flicked the ball with his right foot to go round the goalkeeper and deposit into an empty net with his left.
Moments later, Antonio Mirante used his legs to beat away an angled drive from Matri. Del Piero's pull-back to Simone Pepe was intercepted at the last second.
Matri thought he had scored a second on 38 minutes, but his header was ruled out, as he was offside when the cross came in before it was nodded down. There are also question marks, as the header towards him might've come off a Parma player.
Gigi Buffon risked giving away a goal after the break when he dropped a simple Sebastian Giovinco cross, but was able to scramble it away under pressure.
Matri was very unlucky again on 55 minutes, as he went on the counter and thumped the upright of an open goal, the ball rolling along the line and back out. It was Matri's final contribution, as he made way for Mirko Vucinic.
Just seconds later, Juventus did get their second with Simone Pepe, who ran on to a Del Piero through ball to smash an angled drive into the far bottom corner.
Arturo Vidal came off the bench for the captain. Vucinic pounced on a Gabriel Paletta defensive error, but Antonio Mirante rushed off his line to close him down.
Vidal took just over five minutes to mark his Serie A debut with a wonderful goal. The poor clearance fell to the edge of the box, where the Chilean let it bounce before unleashing a fierce shot on the volley that flew into the top corner.
It was total domination from Juve and the icing on the cake was a magnificent goal from Claudio Marchisio. Another delightful Pirlo pass to spring the offside trap released the midfielder, who kept his cool to chip Mirante.
In stoppages Giovinco burst into the box and was tripped from behind by former teammate Paolo De Ceglie. The clumsy challenge was an inevitable red card and penalty, which the Atomic Ant got back up to coolly convert.
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Juventus: Buffon; Lichtsteiner, Barzagli, Chiellini, De Ceglie; Marchisio, Pirlo; Pepe (Krasic 71), Del Piero (Vidal 67), Matri (Vucinic 57), Giaccherini
Parma: Mirante; Zaccardo, Paletta, A Lucarelli, Rubin; Valiani, Morrone, Galloppa (Ze Eduardo 74), Modesto (Biabiany 62); Giovinco; Pellè (Floccari 64)
Ref: Celi
Sent off: De Ceglie 90 (J)
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