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Juventus’s Serie A title hopes were dealt a rustle arsenic they were held to a 1-1 tie astatine location by relegation-battling Lecce connected Saturday, pinch nan hosts coming from down but failing to triumph aft Jonathan David had a Panenka-style punishment saved.
Juventus stay 5th successful nan standings connected 33 points, 5 disconnected nan leaders, Milan, who person played a crippled less. Lecce are 16th connected 17 points, 5 points supra nan relegation zone.
The location broadside dominated nan opening half, creating a big of chances but went successful down astatine nan break aft Lameck Banda pounced connected a bad boy walk to springiness Lecce nan lead connected nan changeable of half-time.
Juventus equalised 4 minutes aft nan break, pinch Yildiz’s changeable taking a deflection and nan shot fell to Weston McKennie who fired past Falcone. Lecce faced activity aft activity of Juventus attacks and nan visitors conceded a punishment for Mohamed Kaba’s handball successful blocking David’s shot.
David scored connected his Juventus debut connected nan opening time of nan play but has grounded to adhd to his tally successful nan league. “It’s disappointing he isn’t assured capable astatine nan infinitesimal to show each his quality, but he tin beryllium a apical finisher successful nan box,” nan Juventus manager, Luciano Spalletti, told Dazn earlier kick-off.
Yildiz handed nan shot to David but nan Canada guardant sent a tame Panenka-style effort down nan mediate and nan diving Falcone had clip to raise his ft to make nan save. Falcone denied David a precocious victor pinch a good save, Yildiz deed nan station successful added clip and nan last whistle was met pinch a chorus of boos from nan Juventus fans.
In Spain, Villarreal roseate to 3rd successful La Liga pinch a 3-1 triumph astatine Elche. After early goals from Alberto Moleiro and Georges Mikautadze, Martim Neto pulled 1 backmost for nan hosts aft half an hour. Alfonso Pedraza’s 83rd-minute onslaught secured nan points for Villarreal. Elche enactment ninth.
Later connected Saturday, Barcelona sojourn Espanyol for a highly charged Catalan derby. The hosts person banned Barcelona fans from wearing their team’s garment and stepped up information astatine nan RCDE Stadium, pinch tensions moving precocious arsenic nan Barcelona goalkeeper Joan García returns to his erstwhile club. Espanyol person installed protective netting down some goals “to guarantee nan information of each attendees and thief nan arena tally smoothly”, pinch García, who made a summertime move to their bitter rivals, group to look his aged squad for nan first clip since leaving.
“Access to nan RCDE Stadium pinch immoderate type of garment, scarf aliases identifying awesome of FC Barcelona is strictly prohibited,” Espanyol said successful a connection connected Tuesday. “Any personification wearing shirts, scarves, caps, flags aliases immoderate different unique items of nan visiting squad will not beryllium allowed to participate nan stadium.”
Kylian Mbappé will miss Real Madrid’s location crippled against Real Betis connected Sunday pinch a knee wounded but is pushing to beryllium disposable for adjacent week’s Spanish Super Cup semi-final against Atlético Madrid. Xabi Alonso, nan Madrid coach, said: “We’ll decidedly miss Kylian. We person to person a batch of religion successful those who are going to play tomorrow. Now we’ll see. We person to hold and spot really things develop, and we’ll do everything we tin to get him backmost arsenic soon arsenic possible.”
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