TURIN (ITALPRESS) – The first leg of the Champions League playoff match between Thiago Motta’s Bianconeri and Peter Bosz’s PSV Eindhoven went into the archives with a victory for Juventus. At the Allianz Stadium in Turin, the confrontation ended 2-1. Return in eight days at the Philips Stadion in Eindhoven. After a rather soporific first phase, from time to time interrupted by a few treble which, however, had not raised major concerns on either side, it was Juventus who unlocked the challenge with McKennie’s third goal in this edition of the Champions League. At 34′, on the development of a short throw-in by Veerman recovered by Gatti and put in by the Juventus defender, it was Ledezma who anticipated Yildiz, with Kolo Muani who from a few steps tried a deflection finding Benitez’s response, but the same Gatti put the ball back for the American from Little Elm who with first intention set off a powerful conclusion that went under the crossbar. McKennie had, by the way, already scored against Psv in the match last September 17. At the start of the second half, Juventus came close to doubling the score with newcomer Mbangula whose shot was saved on the line by Flamingo, while in the 11th minute it was former Inter player Perisic who found the equalizer: on Lang’s first shot it was Locatelli who opposed the header, the ball ended up in the Croatian’s area who with a feint right footed got rid of Kelly and with his left footed shot struck Di Gregorio at the first post. Juventus again took the lead eight minutes from the end with an opening by Dougas Luiz for Conceicao, who was good at lunging down the right and outpacing Mauro Junior at speed before putting a low ball in the middle whose rebound by Benitez ended up at the feet of Mbangula, who was in turn quick to find the winning tap-in and thus score his first goal in the Champios League. – photo Ipa Agency -(ITALPRESS).
