Juventus is on a mission of vengeance after last year's Champions League disappointment, but the Italian club got no good start on this season's edition of the tournament.
2-2 in the away game against Atlético Madrid is actually a reasonable result, but not when you take into consideration that Juventus in the middle of the second half, led 2-0, and that the Spanish equalisation fell in the ordinary spilletids the last minute.
Substituted Hector Herrera headede the reversal in the net after a corner kick.
Thus, he arranged for pointdeling in a match that started off pending, but exploded after the break. And it was Juventus who opened the ballet less than three minutes into the second half.
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Juventus got a drømmestart 2. half. Photo: Javier Soriano / Ritzau Scanpix.
Atlético were caught high up the pitch, and Leonardo Bonucci sent Gonzalo Higuain away with a long pass.
the Attacker took time before he found Juan Cuadrado with a tværpasning, and even on the seven-Atlético-players reached home, sent the colombian winger with a cannon shot the ball over in the opposite målhjørne.
the Scoring was a bad belly flop for the home side, who had good control of the fight and had kept Juventus from big chances.
Now was the spaniards forced forward on the pitch, but 20 minutes after the break it went wrong again.
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Atlético Madrid celebrates a goal. Photo: Pierre-Philippe Marcou / Ritzau Scanpix.
Juventus-fullback Alex Sandro stroking to the end line and sent the ball straight into the head of the oncoming Blaise Matuidi, who doubled the guests ' lead.
It looked like a decision, but hjemmepublikum got new hope a few minutes later, when Stefan Savic reduced to 1-2 after a hovedstødsaflevering from its forsvarsmakker Gimenez.
Some final pressure was Atlético, however, not created, but nevertheless grieved Herrera so for 2-2 to coach Diego Simeone big cheers.
In the second match won the Locomotive Moscow 2-1 at stamford bridge over Bayer Leverkusen.
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