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by Gianluca Luceri 12 June 2020Italian football restarts after 95 days of lockdown and the first post-coronavirus smile is of Juventus, who in a 'Stadium' without audiences closes the Italian Cup return semifinal on 0-0 against Milan therefore the 1-1 of the first leg at San Siro before the stop) and now the trophy will be played, next Wednesday at the Olimpico in Rome, against Inter or Napoli.

Formations. Absent Chiellini and Higuain, Sarri deploys Danilo in the right defensive lane, in midfield inside Pjanic, in front of the Douglas Costa-Dybala-Ronaldo trio. Pioli instead is without Theo Hernandez, Castillejo and above all the star Ibrahimovic, replaced as the only point by Rebic (goleador in the first leg), in support of the Croatian here is Calhanoglu, Paquetà and Bonaventura.

Anti-racism shirts during the pre-race warm-up in memory of the killing of African American George Floyd: the Rossoneri show the words 'Black lives matter', 'No racism' reads that of the bianconeri.

The game begins with a touching minute of recollection for all the victims of Covid and after 70 seconds Juve immediately touches the advantage: Douglas Costa's left cross is very close. In the quarter of an hour double 'heavy' episode. Orsato to the Var for a wide elbow of Conti on a raid by Ronaldo, it is penalty, from the spot the same Portuguese goes but sends on the post (16 '). On the continuation, dangerous high-leg entry on Danilo by Ante Rebic that remedies the direct red. Guests in ten and without tips, given the already many absences in the offensive phase (only Leao in the bench).

Juve continues to do the match, but his is far from suffocating pressure. Donnarumma opposes the close but central attempt by Matuidi (31 '), blocks the left in two stages (slightly soft) of CR7 (39') and does not tremble, in the end, on Bonucci's wide turn from a corner. For Milan, however attentive and orderly despite the numerical inferiority, a high shot by Conti (25 ') and little else.

It is the Devil, however, who frightens the Bianconeri at the start of the second half (48 '): Bonaventura on the bottom and cross at the near post, Calhanoglu heads to go near the target. Pioli believes it (he has to try to score) and in the 32nd he takes Bonaventura away by trying to focus on Leao's freshness. Three series changes in the 62nd minute for Sarri: inside Khedira, Rabiot and Bernardeschi, out Pjanic, Matuidi and Douglas Costa.

The match, however, flows away without particular jolts. At 71 'decisive advance of Kjaer plane on de Ligt, ready to hit, and it is the same Danish center of Milan who just misses the corner head mirror (79'). Dybala immediately replies: left-handed around the edge, Donnarumma punches us. In recovery, the last two attempts of the bianconeri: Cuadrado shoots from twenty meters (93 '), Alex Sandro tries to power, but the shot is not angled and Donnarumma still responds. It ends without goals, with Juve hitting the nineteenth Italian Cup final in its history and Milan, author of a good test, who greets with his head held high.