Yildiz lifts Juventus to comeback win over Cagliari

Kenan Yildiz is sweet at soccer.

I do know, it’s the form of scalding-hot take that you just’ve at all times come to BWRAO for through the years. However typically, occasions transpire to hit you within the face with the Apparent Stick, and there’s nothing so that you can do however acknowledge it.

This week has been a type of occasions. After coming off the bench and taking up in Juve’s wild win over Bodø-Glimt on Tuesday, Yildiz once more stepped up-to-the-minute in Saturday’s house match towards Cagliari. The Isolani had began the sport nicely and shocked everybody by taking the lead within the twenty sixth minute, however Yildiz responded lower than 95 seconds later to place the sport again the place it began. As Juve slowly started to make their qualitative benefit over their guests pay, the child struck once more on the stroke of halftime, ending an exquisite transfer for the decisive second of Juve’s 2-1 victory, the workforce’s first in three league matches and securing three huge factors forward of subsequent weekend’s big conflict with defending champions Napoli (barf).

Luciano Spalletti got here in nonetheless looking for his first win on the Allianz since taking up the supervisor’s workplace. He recovered Federico Gatti after he was left house from the Bodø match with an sickness, however was nonetheless lacking Bremer, Daniele Rugani, Carlo Pinsoglio, and Arkadiusz Milik. The three-4-2-1 remained in place. Michele Di Gregorio had been sick all week, and wasn’t risked with just one coaching session beneath his belt, so Mattia Perin began his second straight recreation in purpose. Pierre Kalulu, Lloyd Kelly, and Teun Koopmeiners made up the again three once more, whereas Weston McKennie and Filip Kostic manned the wing-back spots. Manuel Locatelli and Khéphren Thuram began within the double pivot, and Yildiz joined Francisco Conceição in help of Dusan Vlahovic up high.

Cagliari had taken an unconventional tack over the summer season, eschewing a extra skilled coach in favor of their primavera boss, Fabio Pisacane, and specializing in bringing youthful gamers by means of their first workforce. The beginning XI was much more callow given the absence of a few of their extra skilled gamers, with Yerry Mina, Luca Mazzitelli, Marko Rog, Ze Pedro, and Andrea Belotti all on the shelf. Elia Caprile began in purpose behind the again three of Gabriele Zappa, Alessandro Deiola, and Sebastiano Luperto. Marco Palestra and Adam Obert had been out broad, bracketing the midfield of Michael Folorunsho, Joseph Liteta, and Michael Adopo. Sebastiano Esposito and Gennaro Borrelli fashioned the tip of the spear on the high of the formation.

Palestra proved to be a pest from the phrase go, forcing Kostic again into his personal field earlier than the 2 each went down in a heap. The 20-year-old got here up demanding a penalty, but it surely was abundantly clear that he’d pushed Kostic over, and referee Valerio Crezzini shortly instructed him to stand up. Conceição had a shot blocked a couple of minutes later, however the recreation was just about devoid of any motion towards both purpose for an additional quarter-hour, when Palestra once more bought a shot in that was blocked behind by Kelly.

Three minutes later, Palestra once more made a stamp on the sport. It had appeared like Kostic had tracked a move from Zappa, however his contact put the ball into the right place for Palestra to choose his pocket and cost into the field. He bought to the byline earlier than slicing again to the highest of the six-yard field, the place Esposito beat a sliding Locatelli by a fraction of a second to faucet the ball again throughout the grain and provides Cagliari a lead out of nowhere.

However that lead would final concerning the time it took to blink.

Extra exactly, it was 93 seconds between the second Esposito’s shot went in that the ball crossed the road on the opposite finish of the pitch. Yildiz had pushed a move from Kalulu again into the trail of Thuram, whose contact was a bit rushed and despatched the ball bouncing right into a pocket of empty house within the penalty space. Yildiz pounced, rifling a half-volley into the online with the skin of his proper foot.

Solely two minutes later, Vlahovic tried to get in on the get together, taking a ball from Conceição within the left channel and making an attempt to fireside throughout purpose, however Caprile stopped it comparatively simply — and Vlahovic shortly stopped operating, clearly in critical misery. He signaled to the bench that he wanted to return off virtually instantly, and left the pitch protecting his face together with his shirt in frustration. Jonathan David was summoned to exchange him.

Juve began to show the momentum of the sport within the path of the Cagliari purpose, and because the clock ticked into first-half stoppage time, an exquisite passing sequence arrange Yildiz for his second. It began with Locatelli, whose move to McKennie was instantly flicked across the nook into the trail of Kalulu, who was charging up from the again. Kalulu used his first contact to sq. the ball to Yildiz, who took one contact to hold the ball towards the left channel earlier than firing again throughout the grain, zipping it previous Caprile to place Juve into the lead.

The stress continued after the break, and fewer than two minutes after the restart Conceição was despatched clear by means of the Cagliari protection by David, however couldn’t beat Caprile 1-on-1. 4 minutes after that the Portuguese took on his man on the appropriate earlier than placing a ball into the field. It was deflected again, however solely so far as Koopmeiners, who had tons of house within the field however fired his shot a foot or so broad of the submit.

Substitute Riyad Idrissi tried to catch Perin at his close to submit, however was rejected with relative ease. On the opposite finish, Conceição stored getting put into good positions, however couldn’t make any of them stick, firing over within the 72nd minute after which placing the ball proper at Caprile six minutes later. Allowed to remain within the recreation, Cagliari appeared for a sucker-punch equalizer because the clock ticked on, and with lower than 2 1/2 minutes left Mattia Felici drove previous Kalulu and tried to shock Perin on the close to submit, however the world’s finest No. 2 keeper was fast to swallow it up. It was to be the final actual probability for both aspect, and after 4 minutes of stoppages Crezzini blew the ultimate whistle to carry down the curtain on Spalletti’s first house win for Juve, giving them three essential factors as they head into a tricky month of fixtures.