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When Juventus needed a striker with ice in his veins, Carlos Tevez answered the call. On 25 April 2016, the club won their fifth straight title (and 32nd overall) since last winning five straight … Rodriguez then headed against the bar from close range when he should have done better, but Juve's cohesion and determination wrestled back the initiative after the break.Tevez coolly converted from 12 yards to put them back in front and his side could have been further clear had substitute Fernando Llorente showed more composure over two late chances.Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) wins a free kick on the right wing.Raphael Varane (Real Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.Attempt saved. It was a presentable chance, the sort that the centre-forward tends to put away, and the thought occurred that Juventus might live to regret the miss.Massimiliano Allegri, the Juventus manager, hopes to have the midfielder Paul Pogba back from a hamstring injury for the return leg next Wednesday, and said that his team would have to play even better. When he did have the ball, he played it too safe and Carlo Ancelotti, the Real manager, was forced to defend him.
Juventus stun Real Madrid 2-1 in 1st leg of Champions League semifinals Carlos Tevez snatched a crucial 2-1 win for Juventus who managed to stun European giants Real Madrid in the first leg of Champions League semifinals. This arena erupted. Juventus – Real Madrid 2:1 von TP am 06.05.2015 in den Kategorien Champions League mit 5 Kommentaren. He now has seven European goals this season.Juventus fed on the raucous passion in the stands and the only disappointment for them was when the substitute Fernando Llorente fluffed an injury-time header from Andrea Pirlo’s free-kick. Another goal for either side massively changes that. Assisted by Andrea Pirlo with a cross.Arturo Vidal (Juventus) wins a free kick on the left wing.Substitution, Real Madrid. After a Kroos corner was cleared and Marcelo’s shot was blocked, Juventus broke with two-on-two. Juventus 2-1 Real Madrid: Carlos Tevez's second-half penalty gives Massimiliano Allegri's side a slender first leg advantage. Rodríguez, though, was frustrated when he could not divert Isco’s cross home from point-blank range.Ancelotti would lament how his players “made more mistakes than usual because of the pressure Juventus put us under” and the inquest into the decisive goal promised to be ugly. This was pressure of the most extreme kind. He did not, his clever run disguising his intentions and the finish flying beyond Iker Casillas. In four seasons at Manchester City between 2009-13, he failed to score in the Champions League.
“Bale was tired, he’s just back from an injury,” Ancelotti said.It was a hugely enjoyable game, and Juventus deserved their advantage purely because of their energy and spirit of adventure, which was epitomised by Tevez, who won the Champions League with Manchester United in 2008 but admitted that he feared such nights would not return for him.
Playing like this, Juventus can dream of glory.
Pepe tries a through ball, but Javier Hernández is caught offside. Jesé replaces Gareth Bale.Substitution, Juventus. This pulsating Tevez’s heart must have pounded and plenty of thoughts might have crowded into his head. Carlos Tevez’s penalty gave Juventus a 2-1 lead in the Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid after Cristiano Ronaldo had pegged back Álvaro Morata’s early opener On an evening laced with sub-plots, Álvaro Morata, the Madrid-born, former Real striker – who played as a substitute in Madrid’s equaliser, inevitably, came from Cristiano Ronaldo – a close-range header – which was his 54th goal of the season. Yet the full-time whistle brought a surge of excitement. “We have laid the foundations but we have to deliver a masterpiece in Madrid,” Allegri said.
He would be on 78 minutes for a lunge at Morata.Allegri switched to five at the back after 64 minutes and there were one or two nervous moments for his team. Kroos worked Gianluigi Buffon from distance; Raphaël Varane headed over and Ronaldo, from Isco’s pass, sliced through the inside left channel only to drag his finish badly.The equaliser had been advertised and it came when Rodríguez showed wonderful technique to cross from the right. It was remarkable to see the champions so exposed.Marcelo cynically took out Morata yet Tevez scuttled on and Carvajal abjectly failed to check him. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Ronaldo had blasted a fifth-minute free-kick into the wall but, with Toni Kroos and Isco to the fore, the defending champions began to manipulate the ball with purpose. Juve went ahead when Alvaro Morata slotted in against his old club after Carlos Tevez's effort was spilled.Real levelled when Cristiano Ronaldo nodded in James Rodriguez's cross.But the holders looked out of sorts and slipped behind again as Dani Carvajal tripped Tevez after the break and the Argentine dispatched the spot-kick.Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri signalled his contentment with the scoreline as he brought on central defender Andrea Barzagli just after the hour and his side limited Real to a clutch of half chances.Whether Juve's advantage is enough to survive the return leg at the Bernabeu is yet to be seen, but it was a result to relish for the noisy home support as captain Gianluigi Buffon led the celebrations at the final whistle.Juventus have lost just once in 18 European matches at the redeveloped Juventus Stadium, but this victory, Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti - whose position is subject to the usual end-of-season speculation in the Spanish capital - will know that his side will need to be better in both attack and defence to get through to the final.Real looked powerless to resist Juve's early momentum and were picked apart even before falling behind.Arturo Vidal had found a large gap in the visitors' rearguard in the opening minutes, but failed to get a shot off, before Tevez repeated the trick, but not the mistake.Having shaken off marker Raphael Varane, the Argentina striker shot hard and low across Iker Casillas and the Real goalkeeper could only paw the ball into the path of Morata to finish from a couple of yards.Even if they were collectively out of sorts though, Real's star-studded line-up always carries danger.That threat was realised as Colombia international Rodriguez ghosted free of Patrice Evra and lifted a precise cross onto the head of Ronaldo as the Juve back four appealed in vain for an offside flag.