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Gianluca Frabotta & the importance of the Juventus Under-23 side
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Gianluca Frabotta will not likely go down in the annals of Juventus history as one of the great left backs to have worn the black and white stripes.
The 21-year-old Italian, who before his shock starting appearance on Sept. 20 was little known to most, including Biaconeri faithful, was ravaged through and through against Inter Milan.
On the first goal, Frabotta even managed to get beaten twice first when Achraf Hakimi cut inside all too easily to commence the attack, and then getting caught completely out of position when Arturo Vidal, after a couple touches on the ball, splashed a pass out wide to Nicolo Barella, alone on an island. The midfielder nonchalantly made space by deking the oncoming Frabotta and then played a cross to the Chilean for the first of Inter’s two goals.
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Published 14 January 2021
Tunisian midfielder Hamza Rafia came off the bench to score an extra-time winner on his debut as Juventus battled past Genoa 3-2 to reach the Italian Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday.
Rafia, 21, came on with quarter of an hour to go in regular time and scored his first Juventus goal after 105 minutes in Turin.
Andrea Pirlo’s side had let a two-goal advantage slip to allow Genoa back into the game.
Cristiano Ronaldo started on the bench with forward Alvaro Morata and defender Giorgio Chiellini returning from injury.
Chiellini set up Dejan Kulusevski to open the scoring after two minutes in the Allianz Stadium.
Tunisian midfielder Hamza Rafia came off the bench to score an extra-time winner on his debut as Juventus battled past Genoa 3-2 to reach the Italian Cup quarte
Jan 14, 2021 - 12:17 am By Staff Reporter
Juventus progressed to the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia with a 3-2 victory over Genoa in extra-time on Wednesday night.
Cristiano Ronaldo was only named on the bench as one of nine changes by Andrea Pirlo from the 3-1 win over Sassuolo this past weekend.
The hosts got off to the perfect start when Dejan Kulusevski opened the scoring with his fourth league goal of the season after two minutes.
The hosts had to wait until the 23rd minute for the for the second goal as Kulusevski turned provider to pick out Alvaro Morata who found the bottom corner with a neat finish.