Juventus rounded off a disappointing evening on Saturday, with Federico Gatti scoring a strange own goal in the dying embers of the match to give Sassuolo a 4-2 acquire.
The loss means Juventus will drop from 2nd to fourth in the Serie A standings, with Lecce and AC Milan both climbing earlier mentioned Massimiliano Allegri’s aspect right after both of those secured 1- victories towards Genoa and Verona, respectively.
The property aspect would choose their guide into harm time and continued to press on Juve, pinning them back to their have byline. Juve won a absolutely free-kick in an odd place around the corner flag with Szczesny stepping out of his box to consider the kick.
He fired the ball out to Gatti, who arrived below strain from the Sassuolo attackers, and forgetting the goalkeeper was not in his net, the Italian, fired a pass-again into the again of his have internet.
It was a bizarre minute in the match, with the Sassuolo players wheeeling absent in ecstacy, even though Szczesny stood on the edge of the penalty space in disbelief.
Admirers took to social media to question what the 25-12 months-aged, who joined Juve from Frosinone in 2022 was carrying out.
Just one wrote: ‘What in the World was Federico Gatti wondering listed here?…’
One more added: ‘This just transpired. What an outrageous have objective by Juventus’s Federico Gatti’ when yet another stated, ‘Federico Gatti frontrunner for funniest personal goal of the season.’
A further mentioned: ‘Federico Gatti with possibly the most comical individual intention I’ve found in my existence. Unbelievable.’
Sassuolo, meanwhile, were sensational tonight, buying up their next gain of the new league period, obtaining shed their other a few outings, with Armand Lauriente placing them a purpose up following just 21 minutes.
The French midfielder struck a powerful shot at previous Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, who parried the original strike, but the ball bounced downwards and handed involving his legs.
Juventus were being place back again on stage conditions before long after with Sassuolo defender Matias Vina tapping in an individual objective from a Juve cross. But the property aspect would restore the direct prior to half-time via Domenico Berardi powered a shot from the edge of the box into the bottom still left corner.
Federico Cheisa, would snap one particular again for Juve to bring the scores stage at 2-2, ahead of Andrea Pinamonti place Sassuolo 3-2 up heading in a rebound just before Gatti would develop the personal purpose to make it 4-2.
Juventus will be hoping to transform items all around upcoming 7 days, but they’ll face a difficult challenge in Lecce who are unbeaten so significantly this year.
