Juventus cantered into the Europa League quarter-finals with a 2-0 win at Germany’s Freiburg on Thursday and a 3-0 victory on combination.
Dušan Vlahović netted a penalty simply earlier than the break after Manuel Gulde was despatched off following a handball. Substitute Federico Chiesa then wrapped up the win in stoppage time.
“It was important to get through, we played well in the first half,” Juve boss Massimiliano Allegri mentioned. “But looking at the second half, we have to improve. We made technical errors and chose the wrong passes.”
The hosts struggled upfront and deservedly misplaced to the previous Lady, who’ve endured a horrible season following a Serie A factors deduction and Champions League exit, however now have the possibility to finish the marketing campaign on a excessive.
Juve additionally face a Coppa Italia semi-final towards Inter subsequent month.
Freiburg in the meantime are left to push for a first-ever Champions League spot through the Bundesliga having narrowly missed out final time period. They go to Bayern Munich within the German Cup final eight early in April.
The draw for the Europa League quarter-finals and semi-finals is on Friday.
Freiburg ahead Michael Gregoritsch informed RTL: “We were unlucky in the decisive moment. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough and we were eliminated, but we did OK. It was an absolutely top game from us, what was missing was the goal.”
Midfielder Vincenzo Grifo, going through his Italian compatriots, was left on the bench by Freiburg as Christian Streich introduced the extra defensive Kiliann Sildillia into the facet.
Centre again Philipp Lienhart in the meantime did not get well from a knock sustained in final week’s first leg in Turin, the place Juve received 1-0, and arguably would have changed Gulde if match.
Argentina World Cup winner Ángel Di Maria began on the bench for Juve, seventh in Serie A, however the Turin group had sufficient high quality with out him.
Vlahović had the ball within the web for Juve early within the first half nevertheless it was dominated out for offside because the Bianconeri, who received the UEFA Cup thrice earlier than its rebranding because the Europa League, have been the extra threatening facet.
Freiburg’s Matthias Ginter then cleared Federico Gatti’s effort off the road however the video assistant controversially noticed that Gulde had dealt with the ball simply beforehand.
He obtained a second yellow card, a lot to the stadium’s disgust, and Vlahović dispatched the ensuing penalty on the stroke of half-time regardless of keeper Mark Flekken’s finest efforts.
Freiburg’s Streich loves to present younger gamers an opportunity and he threw on defender Kenneth Schmidt for his aggressive debut – towards the twice European champions – to supply some cowl for the absent Gulde within the second half.
The dwelling facet had a shout for a penalty turned down on 57 minutes and free-kick maestro Grifo was ultimately launched however to no avail.
Juve then went up the opposite finish and after Freiburg did not clear, Chiesa scored after being performed in by Adrien Rabiot.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
