Ancona 2-3 Juventus

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Ancona 2 - 3 Juventus

William Viali (56)
Maurizio Ganz (90)
Fabrizio Miccoli (28)
Gianluca Zambrotta (43)
Fabrizio Miccoli (48)



Teams
1 Alessio Scarpi
3 Fabio Da Silva Bilica
5 Stefano Lombardi
6 Mauro Milanese
21 William Viali
4 Daniel Andersson
16 Davide Carrus
27 Dario Hubner
8 Salvatore Russo
29 Vincenzo Sommese
9 Paolo Poggi

Gianluigi Buffon 1
Alessandro Birindelli 15
Ciro Ferrara 2
Paolo Montero 4
Stephen Appiah 18
Edgar Davids 26
Enzo Maresca 14
Alessio Tacchinardi 3
Gianluca Zambrotta 19
Marco Di Vaio 20
Fabrizio Miccoli 9



Substitutes
31 Sergio Marcon
20 Andrea Sussi
7 Daniele Berretta
18 Eusebio Di Francesco
24 Marko Perovic
26 Salvatore Bruno
23 Maurizio Ganz

Antonio Chimenti 12
Mark Iuliano 13
Gianluca Pessotto 7
Antonio Conte 8
Ruben Olivera 24
David Trezeguet 17
Marcelo Zalayeta 25



Substitutions
M Ganz for V Sommese (52)
E Di Francesco for P Poggi (52)
D Berretta for S Russo (69)

D Trezeguet for M Di Vaio (66)
A Conte for A Tacchinardi (69)
M Iuliano for S Appiah (76)



Yellow Cards
Paolo Poggi (20)
Maurizio Ganz (73)
Daniele Berretta (80)



Red Cards
None None


Referee: Emilio Pellegrino

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ANCONA, October 18 (Serie A) - Juventus took an outright lead at the top of the Serie A table, and maintained their unbeaten start to the new season, with a nervy victory against rock-bottom Ancona.

The home side, without a win and just one point from five games going into Saturday's clash with the Bianconeri, looked down and out with just minutes to go.

But a last-gasp goal effort from Maurizio Ganz brought the score back to 3-2 and created a nailbiting end to an entertaining match.

Fabrizio Miccoli had put Juve in front with Gianluca Zambrotta adding a superbly-taken second.

Miccoli then netted his second goal of the match before William Viali pulled a goal back just before the hour mark and then Ganz created a late scare for Marcello Lippi's side.

Juventus controlled the early exchanges and could have taken the lead as early as the seventh minute when Miccoli whipped in a pin-point cross to Marco Di Vaio, but the Italian international fired agonisingly wide of Alessio Scarpi's right-hand post.

The Bianconeri went close again 10 minutes later, this time Scarpi making a superb save to deny Zambrotta, whose shot took a deflection off Alves Fabio Bilica.

Ancona produced a scare when, against the run of play, they almost broke the deadlock with 25 minutes played.

Forward Dario Hubner headed on to Stefano Lombardi and his left-foot shot beat Juve keeper Gigi Buffon but not defender Paolo Montero, who had positioned himself on the line.

The visitors eventually got the goal their play deserved four minutes later when a corner kick found Miccoli, and his 10-yard snap-shot crossed the line - despite the efforts of the defenders on the goalline.

Juve then doubled their advantage on the stroke of half-time when Miccoli's corner picked out Zambrotta on the edge of the area, and the midfielder took one touch before firing a lovely 20-yard drive high into the top-left corner.

Three minutes into the second period and Juve had the game by the scruff of the neck.

Zambrotta turned provider, crossing to Miccoli who headed home from close range for his second of the game.

Ancona pulled a goal back with 65 minutes gone - Viali meeting a corner from Ganz to nod home what looked like purely a consolation goal.

And Juve should have put the game beyond doubt, creating and missing a hatful of chances before the home side bagged a second to create a nailbiting finish.

With just minutes left on the clock Daniel Andersson found Ganz in space and the veteran forward chipped the on-rushing Buffon to give his side hope of snatching an unlikely draw.

But time was against them and Lippi's side held on for victory.

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With a bit of unexpected efforts Juventus wins also in Ancona after Verona and Reggio Calabria. At the Conero Miccoli and Zambrotta storms the pitch with a double and a superb goal. In the last minute Ancona gets 2 goals with Viali and Ganz. Juventus has 3 points ahead of Milan that plays tomorrow night against Lazio. Tuesday night at Delle Alpi it's Champions League against Real Sociedad.

After almost 2 weeks Juventus plays another Serie A match. Marcello Lippi misses Nedved, Thuram, Legrottaglie, Tudor, Camoranesi and Fresi, plus obviously Del Piero and with Trezeguet starting from the bench. Juventus starts with Buffon, Birindelli, Ferrara, Montero, Zambrotta, Appiah, Maresca, Tacchinardi and Davids, Di Vaio and Miccoli are the strikers.

Just after 7 minutes the two forwards are close to score, when Miccoli serves a perfect assist for Di Vaio whose kick is out.

At the 19' Zambrotta obliges Scarpi to a great save with a terrific shot from outside the box. At the 24’ Lombardi with a perfect lob is very close to score for Ancona but on the line Montero saves Juventus goal.

Lippi’s team scores at the 29’. Corner kick and perfect shot by Miccoli, on the line Sommese saves the goal but with his hand. It’s the first goal of Miccoli in Serie A with the Juventus shirt.

Just before the end of the first half, Zambrotta scores a suberb goal controlling a perfect assist of Miccoli from corner kick and shoots right in the top corner of Ancona ‘s goal.

Same squad of the first 45 minutes for Lippi. Already after 4 minutes Juventus scores the third goal. Perfect cross of Zambrotta and excellent header by Miccoli.

Ancona gets the 3-1 from a corner kick where Viali scores with a perfect header. At the 90’ also the second goal for Ancona arrives, Ganz in front of Buffon cannot miss the easy situation.