In the early morning of 23 February, the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final was a focus battle: Juventus away to Villarreal.
Serie A supremacy Juventus reached the Champions League final twice in 2015 and 2017, but failed to win the title. In the summer of 2018, Juve poached the "Champions League King" C Ronaldo from Real Madrid, hoping to make a breakthrough in the Champions League - impact the championship! Who knows that with C Ronaldo, in the Champions League, it is not advancing and retreating, C Ronaldo's first season can still reach the 1/4 final, and the next two seasons have been successively beaten as "Sixteen Lang", and the opponents are not strong.
Now, without Ronaldo's Juventus, what kind of results can be achieved in the Champions League? Of course, high hopes are placed on the winter window new signing Vlahović - Juventus' new No. 7.
Juve started 352, Vlahovic and Morata double centre-forwards, midfielders DeSilio, Rabiot, Locatelli, McKenny and Cuadrado, three centre-backs Sandro, De Ligt and Danilo, goalkeeper Szczesny.
Villarreal started 442, with Danjuma and Lo Celso double forwards.
The game began, Danilo broke the ball in midfield and passed a long pass, followed the ball to the road quickly inserted into the box Vlahovic unloaded the ball, pumped the shot, the ball was scored! Juventus leads Villarreal 1-0 away! Juventus made a real dream start!
Vlahović scored just 32 seconds into the opening, the fastest player in Juve's all-time Champions League debut.
In the 3rd minute, Vlahovic scored into the penalty area and was blocked out of the line.
Trailing early, Villarreal did not mess up, but waited for the opportunity to storm Juve's defence. In the 12th minute, Pedraza broke into the penalty area and crossed, And Lo Celso pushed the shot, which hit the upright and popped up. In the 15th minute, Chuk Uze crossed and Danjuma's shot was deflected by Szczesny.
In the 33rd minute, McKenny scored and Morata shot high.
In the 34th minute, Capuel's long-range shot was also high.
At the beginning of the second half, Juventus replaced Sandro with Bonucci, which was a counter-substitution.
In the 57th minute, Villarreal's consecutive passes were combined, Pedraza's cross from the left was met by Moreno's shot confiscated by Szczesny.
In the 65th minute, Villarreal equalised, Capué made a precise pass into the box and Parejo stepped in to push the ball.
In the 84th minute, Morata passed directly and Vlahović took the ball and turned to shoot, which was saved by the responsive goalkeeper.
In the end, Juventus drew 1-1 away with Villarreal, which was not a bad result, and returned home to win and qualify.
Last season's Champions League quarter-final Juventus against Porto, both legs of Ronaldo played the full game, but did not score, Juve was eliminated. In this way, Vlahovich is stronger than Ronaldo. But if Juventus' attack can only count on the Serbian center forward, it will be difficult to go further in the Champions League, and it will depend on Dybala's injury recovery.