No counter-overtaking for Inter, goodbye to the record. There Juventus stops their progress again, the penalty goal at the start of the match is not enough for the bianconeri to overcome Cagliari: in Turin it ends 1-1. Thus ends, after 628 minutes, the unbeaten streak of the Juventus goal: the record in the history of Serie A remains in the hands of the Sardinians, capable in 1966/67 of not conceding a single goal in the first seven days of the championship. A detail, on a Sunday also characterized by waste and errors.
Two-faced Vlahovic, Douglas Luiz bad. Speaking of waste: the Serbian center forward recorded a lot of it, having previously been cold in converting the penalty awarded by Luperto. It will be said: he can’t score alone. Very true, and in fact Juve’s few goals at the start – ten in seven matchdays, half as many as the former Fiorentina – are a theme. Together with the little space assigned to the former Aston Villa player, who exploited it badly against Cagliari: he knocked out Piccoli in the area. Clumsy too, but that’s it: 4 on the report card.
The words of Thiago Motta: “We conceded in the first half. Then we took the lead and weren’t able to close out the game. In the end they equalized with the penalty, then the expulsion complicated everything. Today we did everything. We left the game open and this draw came – says the coach in the press conference, and then focuses on the red to Francisco Conceiçao – if it’s a simulation, rightly so. It’s something we’ve been talking about for some time, simulations aren’t good for the game referee, but now a precedent is opened and it must always be done like this, not every now and then.”