Juventus 1 - 0 Napoli
Marchisio 44 (J)
Stadio Olimpico
Juventus rode their luck to sneak a 1-0 victory over Napoli thanks to a
deflected Claudio Marchisio effort, but Nicola Legrottaglie is injured. The
visitors were furious when a late equaliser was ruled offside.
The Bianconeri had to get back on track after their 1-0 Champions League defeat
to Chelsea, but faced a Napoli without a win since January 11. Mauro Camoranesi,
Paolo De Ceglie, Cristiano Zanetti, Gennaro Iezzo, Matteo Gianello, Gianluca
Grava, Walter Gargano and Marcelo Zalayeta were out injured.
Sebstian Giovinco, Christian Poulsen and David Trezeguet were given rare starts,
while Christian Maggio was surprisingly benched. Alessandro Del Piero cut in
from the right and forced Navarro into a tricky double save.
Juve should've scored after 15 minutes when Marco Marchionni's cross found
Trezeguet, but Navarro parried the volley with his legs and Giovinco turned the
follow-up over from eight yards.
Moments later Navarro fingertipped Del Piero's free kick out from under the
crossbar. The goalkeeper rushed off his line to clear Poulsen's long ball off
Giovinco's foot on the edge of the box.
Nicola Legrottaglie was booked for bringing down German Denis and will be
suspended for the Turin derby.
Napoli created a great team move on 38 minutes, as Denis' backheel sent Marek
Hamsik clear at the near post and Gigi Buffon had to spread his body to parry
from point-blank range.
Moments later Navarro rushed off his line to flap the chipped pass off Del
Piero's foot, but Marchionni fired the follow-up over.
Juventus took the lead with a stroke of luck in the last minute of the first
half. Claudio Marchisio gathered from Poulsen outside the area and his hopeful
snapshot took a decisive deflection off ex-Juve man Manuele Blasi to bobble past
a stranded Navarro.
Jesus Datolo replaced Francesco Montervino after the restart for a 4-4-2 system.
It made the difference, as Napoli took control and pushed forward, although they
struggled to create real danger other than Datolo's set plays.
Claudio Ranieri was jeered when he substituted Giovinco with the more defensive
Hasan Salihamidzic, who was making his comeback from a long injury lay-off.
Marchionni moved behind the strikers in a trequartista position.
Del Piero cut back from the byline for Zdenek Grygera, but the defence closed
him down before he could shoot. The Turin crowd was increasingly irritated with
the performance and Amauri replaced a tired Del Piero.
There was a scare on 69 minutes when another long free kick went into the
six-yard box, so Legrottaglie and Buffon crashed into each other in the
desperate attempt to clear. The defender got the worst of it and limped off with
a left knee problem.
A crucial Christian Molinaro sliding tackle stopped Ezequiel Lavezzi's run down
the right, but at the other end Amauri set up Trezeguet and Matteo Contini dived
in to deflect the Frenchman's shot wide.
Trezeguet wasted a counter when he stumbled on the ball, but Napoli were
dominating. They hit the back of the net on 87 minutes when another free kick
found Paolo Cannavaro and a fantastic point-blank Buffon save that ricocheted
into Lavezzi's path, but the linesman's flag had already been raised for a very
tight offside position.

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Juventus:Buffon; Grygera, Legrottaglie (Mellberg 72), Chiellini, Molinaro;
Marchionni, Poulsen, Marchisio, Giovinco (Salihamidzic 63); Del Piero (Amauri
68), Trezeguet

Napoli: Navarro; Santacroce, Cannavaro, Contini; Montervino (Datolo 46), Blasi,
Pazienza (Russotto 78), Hamsik, Vitale (Aronica 78); Lavezzi, Denis

Ref:Ayroldi

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