JAKARTA - The brace printed by Alvaro Morata won Juventus 2-0 at Dynamo Kiev headquarters in the Champions League Group G preliminary match at the NSC Olimpiyskiy Stadium, Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, October 20 local time.
The result also allowed Andrea Pirlo to start his coaching period in the Champions League with a win, answering the doubts that had been placed on him after limping off at the start of the Italian League season.
The absence of Cristiano Ronaldo, who is still in quarantine because he was recently found to be infected with COVID-19, does seem to affect the sharpness of Juventus' front line.
Juventus also suffered a loss when Giorgio Chiellini had to leave the pitch early just 19 minutes after the start of the match, making him replaced by Merih Demiral, reported Antara on Wednesday.
Dejan Kulusevski almost opened Juventus' lead in the 35th minute, and became the Old Lady's third youngest goal scorer in the Champions League, if his shot was not stopped by goalkeeper Heorhii Bushchan.
A minute after the second half continued, Morata scored his first goal to put Juventus ahead by grabbing a wild ball from a shot by Kulusevski that Bushchan did not fully anticipate.
🗣🎙 #DynamoJuve REACTION: @Pirlo_official & the boys speak following tonight's #UCL win ➡️ https://t.co/aPPjI76Y7I#JuveUCL #ForzaJuve pic.twitter.com/AmVulz3V9d
- JuventusFC (@juventusfcen) October 20, 2020
The hosts did not create much chance and in the 84th minute, Morata managed to score his second goal with a header from Juan Cuadrado's cross to punch the ball past Bushchan.
Dynamo had one good chance to score a return in the third minute of injury time with Serhiy Sydorchuk's long-range shot, but goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny kept the Juventus goal clean and secured a 2-0 win over the hosts.
⚪️⚫️ First Champions League double for Álvaro Morata ⚽️⚽️ # UCL pic.twitter.com/GTTivzasRc
- UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) October 20, 2020
The composition of players:
Dynamo Kiev (4-3-3): Heorhii Bushchan; Tomasz Kediora, Illia Zabarnyi, Vitalii Mykolenko, Olexandr Karavaev (Denys Popov); Vitalii Buyalskyi (Denys Garmash), Serhiy Sydorchuk, Mykola Shaparenko; Viktor Tsygankov (Benjamin Verbic), Vladyslav Supryaha, Carlos de Pena (Gerson Rodrigues)
Coach: Mircea Lucescu
Juventus (4-4-1-1): Wojciech Szczesny; Juan Cuadrado, Leonardo Bonucci, Giorgio Chiellini (Merih Demiral), Danilo; Dejan Kulusevski (Paulo Dybala), Rodrigo Bentancur (Arthur Melo), Adrien Rabiot, Federico Chiesa; Aaron Ramsey (Federico Bernardeschi); Alvaro Morata
Coach: Andrea Pirlo
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