Juventus, the Italian, taught his Spanish host Barcelona a harsh lesson, and dealt a strong new blow to him this season by defeating him 3-0 in his own home on Tuesday, in the sixth and final round of Group G matches in the first round of the Champions League.
Juventus beat Barcelona with two clean goals in the first half, with Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo signing in the 13th minute from a penalty kick and American Weston McKinney in the 20th minute.
The two goals were sufficient to win Juventus the top of the group in his favor by beating Barcelona in goal difference with a draw in the two matches of the direct confrontation between them, as Barcelona had previously beat Juventus 2-0 in the first leg.
But Juventus fired a bullet of mercy at Barcelona in the second half, with a third goal scored by Ronaldo from a penalty kick also in the 52nd minute, to be the third time that Ronaldo scored a double for Barcelona, noting that the previous two times were during his career with Real Madrid.
The match saw Ronaldo outperform the Argentine Lionel Messi, as the latter failed to lead Barcelona even to adjust the score.
Juventus raised its score to 15 points;
To lead the group by a direct confrontation with Barcelona, and the two teams had officially qualified for the semi-finals before the matches of this round.
The defeat in today's match is expected to compound the pressure on the Dutch coach of Barcelona, Ronald Koeman, especially with the decline in the team's level in the Spanish League this season, in addition to being the team's second defeat within 4 days, after its fall to Cádiz 1-2 last Saturday in the league the local.
And Dynamo Kiev, Ukraine, achieved its first victory in the group, and beat Hungary's Ferencváros 1-0 in the other match today in the same group.
In Group F, the German club Leipzig settled the pass to the next round, after defeating Manchester United 3-2, while the match between Paris Saint-Germain and Turkish Basaksehir was suspended due to racist abuse of the Turkish club's assistant coach.
Leipzig raised its score to 12 points, 3 points behind Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United.
Given the result of direct confrontations within Saint-Germain, qualify even if he lost his last match, while Manchester United will move to the European League.
In Group E, Moroccan striker Youssef Nassiri continued his brilliance with Spain's Seville and scored two goals;
To lead the team to a 3-1 victory at its French host Rennes, and Chelsea, England, drew 1-1 with Russian Krasnodar.
Chelsea led the group with 14 points, one point behind Seville, while Krasnodar moved to the European League after finishing third with 5 points.