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Juventus, without the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, out due to a muscle problem, crashed this Sunday in the Atalanta field and fell to fourth place in Serie A after losing 1-0 , which raises the alarm about their chances of qualifying for the next UEFA Champions League.
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Andrea Pirlo’s team gave up its third position to Atalanta, which had not beaten the Turin team in a league match for twenty years and that he chained his fifth victory in a row.
It was a tense, even match, in which the balance was broken in the minute 87 with a left foot from outside the area of the Ukrainian Ruslan Malinovsky who ended up at the bottom of the meshes after an involuntary deflection by the Brazilian Álex Sandro.
Atalanta complicates the co sas Juventus away from the title.
Pirlo’s team falls 1-0. 👀 pic.twitter.com/zFGSBhyxIM
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Without Cristiano, Juventus played with the Spanish Álvaro Morata and the Argentine Paulo Dybala as starters in attack , but after a good start, Atalanta’s athletic strength and “claw” emerged.
Colombian Duván Zapata was able to overtake the Bergamo team Twenty minutes from the end with a header that went away by a few centimeters and the courage of coach Gian Piero Gasperini, who made offensive changes to win the reigning champion, was rewarded thanks to Malinovsky.
The Ukrainian took the field with the Slovenian Josip Ilicic and the Russian Aleksey Miranchuk and gave his team a victory that brings him closer to his third consecutive participation in the Champions League .
The Juventus season is complicated, which is now fourth and could be reached by Napoli.