ORINO (ITALPRESS) – Mission accomplished: at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, Thiago Motta-coached Juventus overcame Cagliari 4-0 in the round of 16 of the Coppa Italia and will face Empoli in the quarterfinals. It was a match in which the title-holding Bianconeri struggled in the beginning then came out at a distance. Unlocking the game, at 44′ of the first half, was the same Vlahovic who had given Juventus a draw against Venezia in the round of 16 last Saturday in extra time. The Serbian, who in the aftermath of the match against the lagoon players had been the protagonist of a long-distance spat first with a fan guilty of threatening him with death and then with the entire south curve, today made peace with his public. “An isolated gesture does not erase the past, you have always been respected by us. Juventus DV9 and ultras united until the end,” the banner displayed outside the stadium by the organized fans to which the player responded on the field with a fine goal: with his back to the goal, he received the ball from Yildiz, turned and with his left footer fulminated at the second post the immobile Scuffet. At the start it had been Di Gregorio who had prevented the evening from getting complicated: after not even a minute, the goalkeeper had denied a goal to Lapadula, who had tried with a first-time conclusion from the center of the area. On 36′, however, the aforementioned Scuffet had denied Conceicao’s power goal with a plastic save. At 8′ of the second half it was Koopmeiners who doubled with a free kick-masterpiece: from 25 yards he brushed a trajectory that slotted into Scuffet’s far right. Ten minutes from the end it was Conceicao who struck the hat-trick: after a series of flare-ups that had failed to materialize, the Portuguese number seven went up the middle and beat the goalkeeper with a diagonal left-footed shot that slotted in at the far post. Poker and credits at 44′ when the scorer was Nico Gonzalez who, after sprinting away from Augello, lobbed a shot past the outgoing Scuffet.- Image Photo -(ITALPRESS).
