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Juventus’ Serie A title ambitions are all however over after they suffered a 1-0 defeat at Cagliari on Saturday, in a recreation the place the guests had been unable to make their domination of possession rely.
Juventus sit fifth within the standings on 39 factors, 10 behind leaders Inter Milan, who beat Udinese 1-0 on Saturday. Cagliari are fifteenth on 22 factors, the win taking them eight factors away from the relegation zone.
Cagliari did not register a shot try within the opening half however scored a shock winner when Luca Mazzitelli scored with 25 minutes remaining to finish Juve’s six-match unbeaten league run.
“You tip your hat to your opponents, who introduced house a victory that maybe they did not deserve, however sniffed out the chance and took it,” Juventus supervisor Luciano Spalletti instructed Sky Sport.
“Possibly subsequent time we will be taught from that and sniff out our probability too. For sure, dropping is not good, however we would not have been pleased with a draw both. “
The guests dominated possession early on with out creating any actual hazard till Cagliari keeper Elia Caprile saved Fabio Miretti’s strike from simply inside the realm and the sport remained goalless after a dour first half.
Juve had possibilities earlier than Gianluca Gaetano floated a free kick into the realm and Mazzitelli met the ball first time to ship a side-footed volley on the flip previous Perin.
“A wonderful evening that we’ll carry with us,” Mazzitelli instructed Sky.
“We confronted one of many strongest groups, however we gave greater than we had. It was a victory that got here with loads of struggling.”
Caprile palmed away a scorching effort from Yildiz as Juventus desperately looked for an equaliser and Yildiz despatched a deflected shot off the put up late on.
Juventus, who fell to their second loss in 12 league video games since Spalletti took cost on the finish of October, want to choose themselves up earlier than internet hosting Benfica within the Champions League on Wednesday and Serie A champions Napoli subsequent weekend.
