No Conte? No problem as Juve triumphs
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August 27, 2012, Monday
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CHAMPION Juventus enjoyed a 2-0 victory over Parma with banned coach Antonio Conte watching in the stands and Fiorentina came from behind to grab a last-minute win in the first matches of the Italian Serie A season on Saturday.
Second-half goals from Stephan Lichtsteiner and Andrea Pirlo were enough for Juventus in a match that could have been postponed due to a downpour in the lead up.
Conte lost his appeal earlier in the week against a 10-month ban for failing to report incidents of match fixing when he was coach of Serie B side Siena and Juventus fans made their feelings about the penalty clear with a series of chants.
Juventus was awarded a penalty in the 33rd minute for a foul on an offside Lichtsteiner by Parma 'keeper Antonio Mirante but he pushed Arturo Vidal's spot kick aside.
Mirko Vucinic missed a great chance to give the hosts the lead seven minutes into the second half when he shot straight at Mirante from a tight angle instead of rolling the ball to Claudio Marchisio.
However, Lichtsteiner saved his teammate's blushes two minutes later when he tapped in an easy goal from new signing Kwadwo Asamoah's fizzing cross, and Juventus quickly doubled its lead when Pirlo's tame free-kick was mishandled by Mirante and judged to have crossed the line.
The Parma keeper protested he had kept the ball on the line but the officials gave the goal.
"It's clear that when you concede a second goal only four minutes after the first then it's difficult," said Parma boss Roberto Donadoni.
Two goals from Stevan Jovetic gave Vincenzo Montella a winning start as Fiorentina boss, as his team came from behind to beat Udinese 2-1 at the death.
Second-half goals from Stephan Lichtsteiner and Andrea Pirlo were enough for Juventus in a match that could have been postponed due to a downpour in the lead up.
Conte lost his appeal earlier in the week against a 10-month ban for failing to report incidents of match fixing when he was coach of Serie B side Siena and Juventus fans made their feelings about the penalty clear with a series of chants.
Juventus was awarded a penalty in the 33rd minute for a foul on an offside Lichtsteiner by Parma 'keeper Antonio Mirante but he pushed Arturo Vidal's spot kick aside.
Mirko Vucinic missed a great chance to give the hosts the lead seven minutes into the second half when he shot straight at Mirante from a tight angle instead of rolling the ball to Claudio Marchisio.
However, Lichtsteiner saved his teammate's blushes two minutes later when he tapped in an easy goal from new signing Kwadwo Asamoah's fizzing cross, and Juventus quickly doubled its lead when Pirlo's tame free-kick was mishandled by Mirante and judged to have crossed the line.
The Parma keeper protested he had kept the ball on the line but the officials gave the goal.
"It's clear that when you concede a second goal only four minutes after the first then it's difficult," said Parma boss Roberto Donadoni.
Two goals from Stevan Jovetic gave Vincenzo Montella a winning start as Fiorentina boss, as his team came from behind to beat Udinese 2-1 at the death.
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