TORINO. Juventus prevails over Spezia 1-0 after A. Morata scored just 1 goal (21′).

The match was played at the Allianz Stadium stadium in Torino on Sunday and it started at 6:00 pm local time. The referee was Francesco Fourneau with the collaboration of Dario Cecconi and Domenico Rocca. The 4th official was Gianpiero Miele. The weather was cloudy. The temperature was quite cold at 1 degrees Celsius or 33.85 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 59%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Juventus was in firm control of the ball 55% while Spezia was struggling with a 45% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Juventus was more pushing with 42 dangerous attacks and 9 shots of which 3 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Juventus won the match​.

Juventus shot 9 times, 3 on target, 6 off target. Regarding the opposition, Spezia shot 9 times, 4 on target, 5 off target.

Cards

Juventus received 3 yellow cards (D. Vlahovic, L. Pellegrini and F. Bernardeschi). Regarding the opposition, Spezia received 3 yellow cards (M. Erlic, T. Motta and M. Bourabia).

Standings

After this match, Juventus will have 53 points to sit in the 4th place. Talking about the opposition, Spezia will stay with 26 points like Sampdoria to hold in the 16th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Serie A, Juventus will play away against Sampdoria on the 12th of March with a 18-5 head to head stats in favor of Juventus (7 draws).

Spezia will host Cagliari on the 12th of March with a 2-2 head to head statistic.

Juventus – Formation

Juventus started with a conservative line-up (4-4-2).

The manager Massimiliano Allegri decided to play with the following team: Wojciech Szczęsny (7.7), Danilo (7.2), Matthijs de Ligt (7.2), Daniele Rugani (7.0), Luca Pellegrini (7.0), Juan Cuadrado (8.2), Manuel Locatelli (8.0), Arthur (7.1), Adrien Rabiot (7.4), Dušan Vlahović (6.4) and Álvaro Morata (7.2).

The home team had on the bench: Fabio Miretti, Moise Kean (6.5), Marley Aké, Carlo Pinsoglio, Federico Bernardeschi (6.6), Matías Soulé, Mattia Perin and Diego Stramaccioni.

Substitutions

Juventus made 2 changes: L. Pellegrini for F. Bernardeschi (63′) and D. Vlahovic for M. Kean (85′).

Best player: Juan Cuadrado​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Juventus was Juan Cuadrado even if he didn’t score the decisive goal.

His rating is (8.2) with 58 passes (89% accurate) and 2 key passes. He was won 9 duels out of 11. He performed 6 crosses.

Spezia – Formation

Spezia started with a 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

Thiago Motta played with: Ivan Provedel (6.8), Salvador Ferrer (7.4), Martin Erlić (7.1), Dimitris Nikolaou (6.8), Arkadiusz Reca (6.1), Giulio Maggiore (6.7), Simone Bastoni (6.8), Daniele Verde (7.0), Kevin Agudelo (6.3), Emmanuel Gyasi (6.1) and Rey Manaj (6.3).

These were the players on the bench: Nicolò Bertola, Mehdi Bourabia (6.3), Jeroen Zoet, Aurelien Nguiamba, David Strelec, Suf Podgoreanu, Viktor Kovalenko (7.0), Janis Antiste, Petar Zovko, Aimar Sher and Petko Hristov.

Substitutions

Spezia made 2 changes: R. Manaj for V. Kovalenko (76′) and G. Maggiore for M. Bourabia (76′).

Best player: Salvador Ferrer​

The player that probably impressed the most for Spezia was Salvador Ferrer.

His rating is (7.4) with 34 passes (85% accurate) and 2 key passes. He was won 4 duels out of 9. He performed 1 cross.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Serie A.​

• Bologna – Torino – 0-0
• Fiorentina – Hellas Verona – 1-1
• Genoa – Empoli – 0-0
• Juventus – Spezia – 1-0
• Napoli – Milan – 0-1
• Venezia – Sassuolo – 1-4