Manchester City 1-2 Juventus: Delight for the Bianconeri as Champions League challenge starts in triumph

Date: 15th September 2015 at 10:41pm
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Juventus defeated Manchester City 2-1 at the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday night in the Champions League, as last year’s runners-up began the new campaign with victory.

In a closely fought contest the Bianconeri stole the points with strikes from Mario Mandzukic and Alvaro Morata, after Giorgio Chiellini had scored an owngoal for the Premier League side.

Despite Raheem Sterling forcing Gianluigi Buffon into an excellent save after just two minutes, Juventus had a fairly comfortable first-half and even had the ball in the back of the City net.

Morata, the intended target of Stephan Lichtsteiner’s cross , was clearly offside as he attempted to make contact and Paul Pogba’s eventual header was ruled out, as Juve took the game to City.

Although the Bianconeri were holding firm, the Premier League side did see Wilfried Bony waste a decent opportunity after 32 minutes, firing well wide after a mistake by Patrice Evra.

When Manchester City did take the lead it was under controversial circumstances, centre-back Vincent Kompany appearing to foul Chiellini as he leapt and the Italian headed past Buffon.

Moments later the hosts nearly made it two, but the 37-year-old Buffon made an amazing double stop from Sterling and David Silva.

The sense of injustice seemed to provide Juventus with some attacking impetus, though, and Mandzukic met a wonderful deep cross from Pogba on 70 minutes to level the score.

10 minutes later it got even better for the Old Lady, Morata controlling well before turning his marker and curling a shot around Hart and into the net.

The Bianconeri will now look to tighten their grip on Group D when Sevilla visit Turin on 30 September, but obtaining a first Serie A win of the season is the immediate priority when entertaining Bologna at the Juventus Stadium on Sunday.

 

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