Gatti and Yildiz saved Juve\u2019s blushes after another disjointed performance
\n MILAN
\nJuventus snapped an eight-match winless streak with Wednesday\u2019s 3-1 success over Udinese with Luciano Spalletti ready to replace the sacked Igor Tudor, as Roma and Inter Milan stayed on Serie A leaders Napoli\u2019s tails.
\nFederico Gatti thumped home a powerful header in the 67th minute before Kenan Yildiz slotted in a late penalty in Turin to give Juve a first win in any competition since mid-September and move them to seventh spot on 15 points, six behind leading pair Napoli and Roma who beat Parma 2-1.
\nGatti and Yildiz saved Juve\u2019s blushes after another disjointed performance, this time under \u201cNext Gen\u201d under-23 coach Massimo Brambilla who has stepped in until Tudor\u2019s permanent replacement in the dugout is confirmed.
\nJuve were level at 1-1 heading into the final third of a match played at a soaking Allianz Stadium after Nicolo Zaniolo stroked home his third goal of the season in the dying seconds of the first half, cancelling out Dusan Vlahovic\u2019s early penalty.
\n\u201cI\u2019ve only been here with the first team a couple of days, on Monday morning I was in training with the under-23s and then in the afternoon I was with the first team,\u201d said Brambilla to broadcaster DAZN.
\n\u201cThey\u2019re good players, they know what they\u2019re supposed to do and today they deserved the win.\u201d
\nSpalletti is expected to sign a contract until the end of the season which will be renewed only if Juve manage to qualify for the Champions League.
\nBut speaking to DAZN ahead of Wednesday\u2019s win Giorgio Chiellini, a club icon and now Juve\u2019s strategic director, insisted that \u201cnothing has been signed right now\u201d.
\nSpalletti, now 66 years old, had a dreadful time in his most recent job as Italy boss, but he has been one of the country\u2019s most influential coaches over the past two decades and won a historic Serie A title with Napoli in 2023.
\nRoma, Inter in the hunt
\nIn the capital, Mario Hermoso headed home his first goal for Roma just after the hour mark before Artem Dovbyk netted the crucial strike with nine minutes remaining as Gian Piero Gasperini\u2019s charges maintained their pursuit of Napoli.
\nDovbyk\u2019s second goal of a troubled start to the season for the Ukraine striker was key as Alessandro Circati pulled one back for Parma shortly afterwards but the 15th-placed side couldn\u2019t force an equaliser.
\n\u201cThese are three well-earned points… once we got going we controlled the game, conceded very little and created plenty,\u201d said coach Gasperini.
\nRoma travel to AC Milan on Sunday with the division\u2019s best defence \u2014 Circati\u2019s strike was just the fourth conceded in nine league matches \u2014 and a chance to prove that they deserve to be in the Scudetto discussion.
\nMilan are fourth after being overtaken on goal difference by local rivals Inter Milan, who comfortably beat troubled Fiorentina 3-0 at the San Siro and moved into third on 18 points.
\nA brace from Hakan Calhanoglu and Petar Sucic\u2019s sumptuous individual goal, all in the second half, got Inter back on track after losing at Napoli on Saturday.
\nCalhanoglu opened the scoring with a unstoppable low drive in the 66th minute, finally ending Fiorentina and goalkeeper David de Gea\u2019s resistance.
\nAnd Sucic doubled the hosts\u2019 lead with his first Serie A goal five minutes later, bringing the house down in the process.
\nSucic, who signed from Dinamo Zagreb in the summer, collected Lautaro Martinez\u2019s pass on the edge of the penalty area before skipping through Fiorentina\u2019s defence and, after a perfectly-executed shimmy, rifling home a low finish.
\nCalhanoglu rounded off victory with a late penalty won by Ange-Yoan Bonny, leaving Fiorentina in the relegation zone without a win to their name.
\nFederico Bonnazoli scored twice as Cremonese beat rock-bottom Genoa and moved up to eighth, one point and place below Juventus who they host on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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