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The
Juventus
bottomed out
Sunday and, after falling at home against newly promoted
Benevento
(0-1) on a goal by Argentine
Adolfo Gaich
, stayed third in the standings, 10 points behind leader
Inter Milan
, which zooms towards the title.
The Portuguese
Cristiano Ronaldo
, who left the pitch visibly disappointed, offered the image that best describes the state of mind of an impotent Juventus, which, after
being eliminated in the knockout stages of the Champions League against Porto
, sees them melt his last chances of retaining the league title for the tenth year in a row.
Andrea Pirlo's
men
stayed within ten points of the leader Inter, with the same number of games, with eleven rounds to go.
They fell before the Benevento of
Filippo Inzaghi
, who spent four years and scored 89 goals with Juventus in his playing career and who raised a game of great tactical attention, suffering and commitment that was rewarded twenty minutes from the end, when the team from Pirlo paid for a new serious distraction.
The Brazilian
Arthur Melo
gave a horizontal pass that crossed his penalty area and Gaich, attentive to the pressure, intercepted it, anticipated the Brazilian
Danilo Luiz
and
Leonardo Bonucci
and surpassed the Polish goalkeeper
Wojciech Szczesny
to give Benevento an advantage.
It was the Argentine forward's second goal in Serie A, after the goal scored two weeks ago, in his first game as a starter, against Spezia.
The reaction of Juventus was led by Cristiano, who approached the equalizer with a
Chilean attempt and a powerful shot inside the area
that was repelled by Benevento
goalkeeper Lorenzo Montipó
, but Juventus could not avoid a new setback.
It was the
fourth defeat of the year
for a Juventus unable this course to chain more than three consecutive victories and which sees the "Scudetto" getting closer and closer to Milan.
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