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JuventusThere were 65 minutes of not much, and then Mapei Stadium lost its mind.
Sassuolo and Juventus spent the better part of an hour trading possession — Juventus holding 55 percent of it, racking up 18 shots to Sassuolo's 10 — without anyone finding the net. Then Nemanja Matic slid a pass through to Sebastiano Esposito, Esposito finished, and the whole match cracked open.
Our pre-match read made Juventus the clear favorite at 56 percent. What followed was the kind of game that makes those numbers look quaint.
The Closing Chaos
For 17 minutes after Esposito's 65th-minute opener, it looked like one goal might be enough. Sassuolo sat, Juventus pressed, Douglas Luiz picked up a yellow in the 76th for his trouble. Then Edon Zhegrova leveled in the 82nd — no assist, just a clean finish — and the math reset.
Sassuolo answered almost immediately. Darryl Bakola found Kieron Bowie in the 89th minute, Bowie put it away, and the home side were back in front with seconds left on the clock. ¡Ala gran púchica! — you could exhale, surely. But Zhegrova had other ideas. Randal Kolo Muani set him up in the first minute of stoppage time, and just like that it was 2-2. Two goals in eight minutes from the same man. The Juventus end must have liked those odds.
They did not hold. In the fourth minute of stoppage time — with Fedde Leysen already booked for Sassuolo, the nerves completely shredded — Armand Laurienté picked out Vasilije Adzic, and Adzic buried it. Final score: 3-2 Sassuolo. The home supporters had earned whatever came next.
El chispudo de Adzic, arriving at exactly the right moment. That's the goal that will be remembered.
What the Numbers Say
Juventus dominated the surface stats: 18 shots, 9 corners, 478 passes to Sassuolo's 393. They had more attempts on target (8 to 6) and more of the ball all night. Sassuolo's goalkeeper made 6 saves; Juventus's made 3. By almost every conventional measure, Juventus were the better team for large stretches of this game.
But Sassuolo converted when it mattered — three times in the final six minutes of regulation and stoppage — and that is the only number on the board that counts.
Jhon Lucumí was booked early for Juventus in the 20th minute, Luca Lipani for Sassuolo just after the break in the 48th. Neither side saw red, which feels almost surprising given how the game finished.
Sassuolo's form coming in read WDWWL — four points from the last five, one loss. They will feel this result moves them firmly back into the conversation for whatever they're chasing this season. Juventus, meanwhile, had drawn their last two before tonight and will leave Mapei asking how a game they largely controlled slipped away in the span of five wild minutes. The question now is whether this is a blip or something more telling about where this Juventus side actually is.
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