🇮🇹 Juve show cracks at the back in first defeat of the campaign | OneFootball

Juventus fought back from a goal down on two separate occasions but it was not enough to snatch a result away to Sassuolo and extend their unbeaten streak.

Scorers: Laurienté 12′, Berrardi 41′, Pinamonti 82′, Gatti (OG) 90+5′ ; Viña (OG) 21′, Chiesa 78′

Max Allegri’s side came into the match without a blemish in their opening four games, finding themselves in the thick of the top-four after a dissapointing 7th place finish last season.

But Juve’s unbeaten start to the campaign was under pressure from the off, as Armand Laurienté’s strike from the edge of the box somehow made it’s way through Wojciech Szczęsny’s hands to open the scoring.

The visitors responded well however, and levelled the scoreline less than 10 minutes thanks to Matías Viña, whose last second attempt to clear a back-post cross was sent into his own net to pull Juve back into the affair.

While Allegri’s men had been known for the defensive solidity in their years of dominance, the new-look Old Lady have looked leaky in recent seaons.

They were punished once again when Domenico Berardi marked his 300th Serie A game with a superb side-footed strike from the edge of the box to reclaim the lead for the hosts just before the break.

It looked for all the world like the match would just slip away from Juve, but Federico Chiesa did what he does best, snapping at an effort inside the box which found its what into the back of the net to reclaim parity in final 15 minutes.

The drama would not end there however, as Juve saw their momentum squashed once again when Andrea Pinamonti headed home from close range after Armand Laurienté’s effort was saved in style, nabbing the lead for the hosts once again.

It was a calamitous ending for Juve to-boot, when Federico Gatti played an inexcusable back-pass into an empty net to gift Sassuolo their fourth goal of the night, capping off a disastrous performance from Juventus.