Narration: This is how we live the game
Was the result bad for Juventus?
It depends.
Before the game,
Andrea Pirlo
would have thought
that yes, losing at home to Porto, which is not a big deal, was unaffordable for his teams.
Over the course of the match, the result was looking better and better, because if Porto was not a big deal, Juventus itself was even less so.
And at the final whistle 'Juve' thought again that perhaps it was bad, since
Cristiano
did not
believe the
decision of
Del Cerro Grande
(and
Hernández Hernández
in the VAR) not to grant him a penalty on the last play.
Terrible, bad or good, the result was what it was and leaves one of Europe's greats in serious trouble for the second leg.
It is true that a 1-0 would be enough to get rid of the tough Porto, but such a victory cannot seem easy after what was seen this Wednesday in O Dragão.
The offensive incapacity of the Piedmontese team was at times ridiculous, without even Cristiano, neglected until desperation, could do too much to prevent it.
Of course, everything is very difficult when you concede a goal a few seconds after the first minute of the game is over.
Bentancur
made the worst decision a footballer can make: to give a back pass to the goalkeeper looking at the lying line.
And, in addition, he did it inside the area.
Taremi
did not miss a gift of such caliber and threw himself to the ground to anticipate
Szczesny
and overtake the Portuguese team.
A predictable team
Despite the nature of the error and the moment in which it occurred, they do not serve as a mitigating factor for the first part that completed the set of Andrea Pirlo.
It was a predictable and monotonous team, with exaggerated difficulties to start the play from behind and without the ability to carry balls to their forwards.
An opponent's delight for a Porto who had enough to exert coordinated pressure and maintain order when Juve managed to overcome the front row.
The first chance for the Italians did not come until minute 40, in an unorthodox Chilean from
Rabiot
well saved by
Marchesín
.
An exception in a first half in which Juventus exhibited all its shortcomings.
The punishment for his failure was to be doubled at 19 seconds into the second half.
The
Juventine
defense allowed
Manafá
to
move
freely down the right wing and
Marega
received the ball alone in the area to make it 2-0 on the scoreboard.
It was then that the concern turned into drama, without that rescuing Juventus from paralysis.
Only in the final quarter of an hour, with Porto already with their tongues out, did Pirlo's men manage to generate some real danger.
That arreón served him so that Chiesa, after a Rabiot cross, scored a goal that could be capital for the final result of the tie.
Later,
Morata
missed a heads-up and Cristiano, written down, claimed a penalty on the last play.
But the tie would not have been far from fair.
Not for Porto, not especially for Juve.
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