Juventus travelled to the Stadio Adriatico to take on Pescara in hopes of returning to winning ways following their first loss in 49 Serie A matches to Inter last weekend. The Bianconeri put on a dazzling performance much to the dismay of the home side, walloping the sorry Delfini 6-1 to claim a resounding three points.
With less than a minute gone in the match, Sebastian Giovinco burst forward to the edge of the box and let fly with a snapshot that required a diving save from Mattia Perin at the far post. Soon after, the Atomic Ant went for goal once again, but dragged his left-footed effort just wide of the post.
Juventus kept on the pressure early as Mauricio Isla put in a dangerous cross and Claudio Marchisio rocketed a sizzling drive over the crossbar from distance following a corner.
After only 8 minutes, the Bianconeri took the lead. Marco Capuano gave the ball away in his own defensive third, and after some neat interplay Giovinco played Arturo Vidal in on goal for the Chilean international to slot coolly slot home.
Pescara found it difficult to even bring the ball forward from their half as Juventus continued to put the Delfini under assault with a wicked half-volley that flew just past the post.
The home side finally broke forward after being put under concerted pressure in the first 20 minutes, as Elvis Abbruscato found space to shoot from distance, but failed to hit the target.
However, Juventus would find success soon after at the other end. Isla received a diagonal ball from Giovinco, who squared to Fabio Quagliarella for the enigmatic native of Naples to thump past Perin across the face of goal.
Just when all looked lost for Pescara, the run of play entirely changed. A Giorgio Chiellini foul gave Juan Quintero a free-kick opportunity from a dangerous postion, and the promising young Colombian nearly pulled a goal back as he cracked a curling effort off of the upright. After the ensuing corner, Delfini captain Emmanuel Cascione put a header on goal from a Matti Nielsen cross; Gianluigi Buffon was able to get a touch, but the ball squirmed in the net off of the post to reduce to deficit to one.
Minutes later, Marco Capuano touched on a corner with his head for Nielsen, and the Dane nearly equalized with a thumping strike the whistled just past the post.
The furious pace of the match was sustained as neither side let up much to the delight of a capacity crowd at the Stadio Adriatico. On 30 minutes, an incredible moment of inspiration saw Quagliarella perform a delectable backheel flick to provide the perfect ball for Kwadwo Asamoah to finish with a clinically done bicycle-kick.
Wide-open play saw the sides exchange opportunities over the next 10 minutes, but it was the Turin giants who would strike again. Quagilarella was once again the provider as he played Giovinco into the box for the diminutive Italian to finish yet another scoring chance to put the Old Lady comfortably up 4-1.
Goals amazingly continued raining from the night sky as Vidal fed Quagliarella into the area for the Italian’s second of the day on the stroke of halftime.
After the restart, Marchisio immediately almost piled on more misery for Pescara, but struck wide of the far post from the left side of the penalty area. At the other end, Quintero tried his hand from distance, but the shot was too central and Buffon claimed easily.
Quagliarella completed his hat-trick on 53 minutes with an acrobatic finish in traffic from a corner kick as matters continued to get worse for the home side.
Quintero tested Buffon with a searing effort from another free-kick, but the Italy legend beat it away to keep Juventus on top by a whopping five goals.
On 75 minutes, Giovinco rounded Perin to go clear on goal, but scuffed his shot and found only the side-netting with the goal mouth gaping. Soon after, the Atomic Ant executed a tricky bit of skill in the box to beat Uros Cosic and shoot on the turn, but the Azzurrini number one smothered the low attempt.
Pescara nearly grabbed a late consolation stoppages Cascione rose above the defense to head on goal, but Buffon was there to make the save as time soon after mercifully expired for the Delfini as Juventus got back on track in Serie A with a thumping 6-1 win.
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