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08 March 2020In the unreal silence of the stadium without fans, Juventus celebrates beating Inter 2-0 and thus returning to the top of the championship: 63 points against 62 of Lazio, while Antonio Conte's Nerazzurri 'sink' to 9 lengths from the leaders, at 54, although with a game still to be recovered.

Big match at Allianz Stadium behind closed doors. Maurizio Sarri redesigns his Juve with 4-3-3: on the bench Pjanic and Dybala, as well as Chiellini. The trident of the Juventus attack is formed by Douglas Costa-Higuain-Cristiano Ronaldo. In midfield there is Ramsey with Bentancur and Matuidi, while in defense Cuadrado and Alex Sandro outside, with de Ligt and Bonucci central couple. Vice versa, the eleven of Inter is the one expected. Conte line up with 3-5-2 with Handanovic returning to goal, Skriniar, de Vrij and Bastoni defending, in the middle, from right to left, Candreva, Vecino, Brozovic, Barella and Young in midfield, Lautaro-Lukaku they are the attacking couple.

The first flash came from Juve after 8 ': Bentancur's corner, de Ligt twisted the ball to the head, Handanovic's reflex refusing was excellent. Still dangerous bianconeri at 15 'with Ronaldo unloading for Matuidi's big left which comes in tow, but Handanovic relaxes and deflects. Inter shakes and picks up the game. On a corner De Vrij fails to hit the head well from a good position, ball out of the mirror. Brozovic tries twice on the 34 'and, above all, on the 36': the Lautaro side for the Croatian who, with a good right footed shot from the edge, Szczesny saves.

In the second half we start again without changes. Inter tries to pick up where they left off, that is, control of the game and in part it succeeds. Then at 55 'here is, quite suddenly, the advantage of Juve: percussion on the left of the Matuidi area that from the bottom puts it in the middle, CR7 touches backwards, Ramsey rushes on the ball who beats Handanovic from a few meters, passing the ball (with deviation) between De Vrij's legs. Substitutions on one side (in Juve Dybala in place of Douglas Costa) and on the other (Eriksen for Barella), both in the 59th minute. Inter in difficulty and Juve doubles in the 67th minute: personal action of the new entrant Dybala who takes the ball shortly after halfway and points the goal, exchange with Ramsey at the edge of the area, dry dribbling on Young and splendid touch of left outside in I extend to anticipate the release of Handanovic. Conte also changes and inserts Gagliardini (at 74 'for Candreva) and Alexis Sanchez (at 79' for Lukaku), while Sarri sends De Sciglio (for the accented Alex Sandro at 78 ') and Bernardeschi (for Higuain at 80) '). In the final little or nothing happens (apart from a double chance for the CR7 trio), then space at the Juventus party: it ends 2-0.