Goals from Ronaldo and Álvaro Morata gave Vecchia Signora its ninth trophy of its kind in Città del Tricolore.
With the South Americans Bentancur, Arthur and Cuadrado starting and Cristiano Ronaldo’s 760 goal in his career, Andrea Pirlo’s Juventus recovered from the fall in the national classic against Inter at the weekend by lifting the Supercoppa di Lega, ninth in their history in order to draw distances against the rest of the competitors (7 leads Milan and 5 Inter).
The Bianconero team qualified for this competition after having won the Scudetto, the ninth in a row, while those from the South were left with the Coppa Italia, defeating those from Turin in the final.
After an even start, with Juve trying to step on the opposite field basing their game on the wings, with a lot of participation from Juan Cuadrado, Napoli little by little was leveling the process and even had the first clear on Insigne’s feet, but his free kick , from a clear position, he was weak and in the center of the arc, easy for Szczesny.
Gennaro Gattuso’s men continued attacking and were very close to opening the scoring, but the Polish Juventus goalkeeper took the goal from Hirving Lozano, who headed at point-blank range from within the small area, albeit with little direction. On the side of Bianconero, Cristiano Ronaldo, with little participation at the start, only appeared at minute 39 with a cross shot that went near the left post of David Ospina.
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For the second half, Andrea Pirlo sent Federico Bernardeschi to the field instead of Chiesa and the newly entered forward had a very clear chance after a minute after a great cross from Cuadrado’s left, but Ospina reacted brilliantly and drowned out the cry of goal to Juve. A couple of plays later, Cristiano Ronaldo anticipated Ospina himself and almost scored the first, but the ball hit the post.
Juventus was better than his rival and he only needed to put it on the scoreboard, something that happened at minute 64. The author, when not, was Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese took advantage of a rebound and a carelessness of the celestial defense to finish off with his left foot from inside the small area and put the 1-0 partial.
With 10 remaining, Napoli had a chance to tie. McKennie wanted to refuse, Mertens anticipated it and the American kicked him in the ankle. After consulting with the VAR, the referee sanctioned a penalty, but Lorenzo Insigne incredibly threw it out.
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In the last minute, everything happened: Gattuso’s men went with everything to attack, Politano overflowed on the right and sent the cross to Lozano, who finished from inside the area but Szczesny saved in a providential way. Lugo came a corner kick for Napoli, the Bianconera defense cleared and Cuadrado ran the entire court to go hand in hand with his compatriot Ospina, but instead of defining, he yielded to Álvaro Morata who entered only from the right. The Spaniard barely had to push her for 2-0 which ended up being the last play of the match.
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It was finally Juventus’ title, the ninth in this competition, which they had not achieved since 2018. For Napoli, it was their second defeat in four finals in this competition against the same rival.
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