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Juventus fought back from early Cagliari penalties to draw 2-2 in Sardinia with Dusan Vlahovic’s free kick and an own goal in another far from convincing performance.

The Bianconeri were stuttering after a goalless draw with Torino, making the trip without Moise Kean and Fabio Miretti, though Arkadiusz Milik returned and Wojciech Szczesny was able to start despite breaking his nose at the weekend. Carlos Alcaraz and Timothy Weah got rare starts. The hosts were four points clear of the drop zone after beating Atalanta and holding Inter 2-2 at San Siro. Nahitan Nandez and Alessandro Deiola returned from suspension, with Gaetano Oristanio shaking off a bout of tonsillitis, but Andrea Petagna, Leonardo Pavoletti and Marco Mancosu were still out.

See how it unfolded on the Liveblog.

Zito Luvumbo blasted over in the opening minute, while Gianluca Gaetano just failed to connect with his cross and Dusan Vlahovic’s strike was charged down inside the penalty area before Weah fired straight at Simone Scuffet’s chest.

Szczesny had to stick out a boot to deny Luvumbo from five yards as a corner was knocked down by Dossena, but VAR spotted that the header struck Gleison Bremer’s arm and a penalty was converted by Gaetano.

It should’ve been 2-0 moments later, but Luvumbo volleyed onto the side-netting undisturbed from an Eldor Shomurodov cross.

Juve remained very fragile at the back and conceded another penalty when Luvumbo sprinted into the box and dinked it over Szczesny while being wiped out by the goalkeeper. Veteran defender Yerry Mina insisted on taking the spot-kick and buried it into the same corner as Gaetano.

The Bianconeri had the ball in the net on 43 minutes when Federico Chiesa broke down the right and rolled across for the Vlahovic tap-in, but the Italian was flagged offside. It proved to be extraordinarily tight, as his knee was off.

Max Allegri had to do something, so introduced Kenan Yildiz for the disappointing Alcaraz, forming the trident attack that many had been calling for. Luvumbo just failed to get the tap-in on a Shomurodov ball flashed across the face of goal, while Szczesny flew to palm away a Prati first-time snapshot on a loose ball.

Juve got back into it with a Vlahovic free kick that he bent around the wall in at the near bottom corner with aid from Antoine Makoumbou ducking, though Nandez was adamant he had not touched Chiesa to give away the set piece.

Allegri threw on every forward at his disposal to turn this around, but Gabriele Zappa threw himself in the way of an Andrea Cambiaso effort and Vlahovic’s acrobatic bicycle kick was over the bar.

The siege eventually paid off, as the Kenan Yildiz cross from the left was meant to be for Arkadiusz Milik, but Alberto Dossena came sliding in and accidentally turned it into his own net instead.

Danilo risked a similar fate when nodding a free kick just over the bar moments later and in stoppages Yildiz scuffed a corner into the arms of Scuffet.

Cagliari 2-2 Juventus

Gaetano pen 30 (C), Mina pen 37 (C), Vlahovic 62 (J), Dossena og 87 (J)

19-04-2024 19:45 MatchDay 33 Sardegna Arena

Juventus 2 - 2

Player statistic

1st half
Gianluca Gaetano 30'    
Yerry Mina

36'         36' Wojciech Szczesny Zito Luvumbo 45+2'         45+2' Timothy Weah 2nd half

    48' Bremer
Nahitan Nández

60'         62'

Dusan Vlahovic     87'
Alberto Dossena Cagliari Juventus

Starting lineups

22
Simone Scuffet Goalkeeper 17
Pantelis Chatzidiakos Defender 87' 4 Alberto Dossena Defender 27
Tommaso Augello Defender 26
Yerry Mina Defender 29 Antoine Makoumbou Midfielder 70
Gianluca Gaetano Midfielder 69' 25 Ibrahim Sulemana Midfielder 46' 8
Nahitan Nández Midfielder 79' 61
Eldor Shomurodov Attacker 79' 77 Zito Luvumbo Attacker 1
Wojciech Szczesny Goalkeeper 27 Andrea Cambiaso Defender 86' 3
Bremer Defender 6
Danilo Defender 4 Federico Gatti Defender 25
Adrien Rabiot Midfielder 26 Carlos Alcaraz Midfielder 46' 5
Manuel Locatelli Midfielder 74' 9
Dusan Vlahovic Attacker 7
Federico Chiesa Attacker 22
Timothy Weah Attacker

68'

Substitutes

21
Jakub Jankto Midfielder 18
Simone Aresti Goalkeeper 1
Boris Radunović Goalkeeper 33 Adam Obert Defender 9
Gianluca Lapadula Attacker 99 Alessandro Di Pardo Defender 37 Paulo Azzi Attacker 19 Gaetano Oristanio Midfielder 34 Kingstone Mutandwa Attacker 16 Matteo Prati Midfielder 46' 14
Alessandro Deiola Midfielder 69' 28 Gabriele Zappa Defender 79' 10
Nicolas Viola Midfielder 79' 23
Mateusz Wieteska Defender 87' 23
Carlo Pinsoglio Goalkeeper 2
Mattia De Sciglio Defender 12
Alex Sandro Defender 24
Daniele Rugani Defender 36
Mattia Perin Goalkeeper 41
Hans Nicolussi Caviglia Midfielder 33
Tiago Djaló Defender 11
Filip Kostic Midfielder 15 Kenan Yildiz Attacker 46' 16
Weston McKennie Midfielder 68' 14
Arkadiusz Milik Attacker 74' 17

86'

This article first appeared on Football Italia and was syndicated with permission.

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