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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