• Serie A. Inter, leader with 56 points

The first half, only encouraged by a shot to the wood of

Cristiano Ronaldo

, had repeated the funereal tones of the defeats in Porto or Naples.

Juventus, nine points behind the lead then, needed a new boost and

Andrea Pirlo

decided to renew his attack with

Álvaro Morata

and

Filippo Bernardeschi

.

The coach's bet paid off in Turin, where

Vecchia Signora

knocked Spezia down with a fabulous goal from

Federico Chiesa

(3-0).

The double change, with which Pirlo dispensed with

Weston McKennie

and

Gianluca Frabotta

, was decisive for the reigning champion, who adds his sixth consecutive league win at the Allianz Arena.

A good way to end a night that had started off crooked with

Matthijs de Ligt's

injury

during the warm-up.

Morata only took a minute to beat

Ivan Provedel

, adding his first goal in eight weeks.

Only nine minutes later, Chiesa took advantage of a play by Bernardeschi on the left to sign the most beautiful goal of the day in Serie A, with a sublime scorpion shot after the initial intervention of the visiting goalkeeper.

"Fight until the end"

"If we cannot come back, we will congratulate the champions, but first we must die on the pitch. As long as we have mathematical options, we have to fight to the end," Morata said in the microphones of Sky Italia.

Since December 19, when he closed 0-4 against Parma, the Madrid player had 11 games in four competitions without seeing a goal.

The finishing touch was set by Cristiano Ronaldo in the 89th minute and

Wojciech Szczesny

still had time to stop

Andrey Galabinov

from a penalty

.

The 3-0 was the 767th career goal for the Madeira star, which equaled

Pelé's

record

.

Even with all the precautions with which any statistics of the legendary '10' of Santos must be approached, what is clear is that Cristiano becomes the first footballer in history to score at least 20 goals during 12 consecutive seasons in the major european leagues.

For now, he still leads the Serie A scorers list, with two more than

Romelu Lukaku

(Inter) and six more than

Luis Muriel

(Atalanta).

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