Chelsea were having the blues on their trip to the Turin giants, who made life extremely difficult for the English outfit with a sound drubbing at the Juventus Arena.
In what was a must win match for the men from Turin, the Scudetto holders made sure that they had to make no excuse after the match for failing to secure a win. The Bianconeri giants were ruthless from the beginning of the match and even though they did
get caught on the break by the quick counter attacks of the European outfit on a couple of occasions, they were resilient enough to secure the victory when it was most needed.
The Turin side scored their first goal courtesy of Fabio Quagliarella and Arturo Vidal converted his chance soon; and the match was sealed by a toe poke goal by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sebastian-Giovinco-c32724 after appearing as a substitute in the last minute of regular time.
Antonio Conte has always had an issue choosing his best attacking line for the match, especially given the fact that the majority of their goals have come through the midfield. On this occasion, it was http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mirko-Vucinic-c26024 who started the
match. Vucinic was fighting flu during the match and he did well to recover for the match, however, he was far from being fully fit for the match.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Claudio-Marchisio-c9312, Andrea Pirlo, Arturo Vidal and Kwadwo Asamoah patrolled the midfield for the home side, with Chiellini and Lichtsteiner joining the attackers on regular instances. The central defensive duties were under the resolute defenders, Andrea
Barzagli and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Leonardo-Bonucci-c22064.
The visiting side were led in to the match by their manager, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Eden-Hazard-c11863 being the central striker. Given the knowledge of Di Matteo about the Italian style of play, it has to be said that
the decision backfired, as Angelo Alessio conceded that the defensive mould that http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 were playing in made it easier for them to find the openings.
The defence of the visitors was far too deep, which invited runs being made by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Stephan-Lichtsteiner-c34101 from the right, and it was from that end that the Turin giants looked most likely to score. Soon after the first half hour of the match was played, the Bianconeri
outfit broke the deadlock, with Quagliarella prodding the ball towards the net after he was expertly found by Andrea Pirlo.
It was a frenzy of attacks by the Old Lady who nearly made it two goals in quick succession, but the interceptive skills of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Kwadwo-Asamoah-c21502, which went through the
legs of Cech courtesy of the deflection by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ramires-c30523.
Giovinco put the game to rest as he came on for Vucinic, by slotting the ball from 20 yards in the 90th minute.
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