Cristiano Ronaldo headed in his 18th league goal this season as Juventus bounced back from last week\u2019s stalemate to soar to an 11-point lead in Serie A on Sunday with a 3-0 win at Sassuolo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ronaldo proved decisive, scoring after 70 minutes as Sami Khedira found the net first in Modena with fellow German Emre Can slotting in the third four minutes from time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paulo Dybala again started on the bench coming on late for the champions, to help set up the third goal, with coach Massimiliano Allegri saying he needed to find the right balance. \u201cPlayers are disappointed, but every now and then sitting on the bench is necessary to recharge batteries and rediscover the right mental toughness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Juventus had started slowly with goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny saving twice in the opening minutes as the champions were without injured defenders Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was the German international\u2019s second league goal of his injury-hit campaign, after scoring the opening goal of the Serie A season against Chievo on August 18. Consigli denied Federico Bernardeschi just before the break with a Khedira header flying wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Portuguese star Ronaldo jumped highest after 70 minutes to meet Pjanic\u2019s corner for his fourth goal in his last three league games to bring his tally to 20 goals for Juventus in all competitions. Argentine Dybala came off the bench seven minutes from time along with Can and was involved in the buildup for the final goal with Ronaldo proving the assist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pair are fighting to be fit for Juventus\u2019s European Champions League last 16 trip to Atletico Madrid in 10 days\u2019 time.Juventus broke through after Sassuolo goalkeeper Andrea Consigli rushed out to parry a Ronaldo shot leaving the way clear for Khedira to turn in the rebound after 23 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inter Milan are third 20 points behind Juventus after beating Parma 1-0 on Saturday, for their first league win of 2019.Brazilian Paqueta volleyed in the second after 22 minutes with Polish forward Piatek again finding the net after 62 for his fourth goal in all competitions.Paqueta dedicated his first goal in Italy to the ten victims of the fire that ripped through buildings at Rio club Flamengo, where he started his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cristiano Ronaldo headed in his 18th league goal this season as Juventus bounced back from last week\u2019s stalemate to soar to an 11-point lead in Serie A on Sunday with a 3-0 win at Sassuolo. Ronaldo proved decisive, scoring after 70 minutes as Sami Khedira found the net first in Modena with fellow German Emre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54670,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54668\/revisions\/54670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}