Supercoppa | Juventus 1-2 Milan: Conceicao super comeback debut | OneFootball

Sergio Conceicao won his Milan debut with a spectacular comeback, overturning Juventus with two goals in four minutes to face Inter in the Supercoppa Italiana Final.

The Rossoneri sacked Paulo Fonseca on Monday, so Sergio Conceicao made his debut at the Al-Awwal Park Stadium in Riyadh. Rafael Leao, Samuel Chukwueze, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Alessandro Florenzi were injured, with Yunus Musah not at 100 per cent in a new 4-3-3 formation. Juve had drawn more games than they’d won this season, albeit suffering only one defeat, with Gleison Bremer, Juan Cabal and Arek Milik long-term absentees. Francisco Conceicao was originally in the starting XI against his father, but pulled out in the warm-up, replaced by Kenan Yildiz.

See how it unfolded on the Liveblog.

Juventus took the lead with the player who was not meant to start, as Kenan Yildiz ran into a huge gap down the right on the Samuel Mbangula through ball and smashed his finish into the near top corner with his right foot.

Youssouf Fofana fired wide from the edge of the D, but Mike Maignan also got down to palm a Kenan Yildiz snapshot away from the near post. Straight after the restart, the Kenan Yildiz angled drive flashed across the face of goal and the Juventus Number 10 rolled across for Dusan Vlahovic to turn wide.

epa11804084 Juventus’s Kenan Yildiz celebrates after scoring the 1-0 goal during the Supercoppa Italiana semi-final match between Juventus FC and AC Milan, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 03 January 2025. EPA-EFE/STR

Milan should’ve equalised on 55 minutes when a corner was flicked on, but Theo Hernandez incredibly ballooned over the bar unmarked from 12 yards.

Federico Gatti did just enough to stop Alex Jimenez’s back-heel flick sending Christian Pulisic through, but then the Spaniard went off injured.

Michele Di Gregorio smothered the Tijjani Reijnders strike and Nicolò Savona made a great tackle on Theo Hernandez running onto the long Maignan ball, but as the move continued, Manuel Locatelli brought down Pulisic for a penalty. The USMNT star converted, despite Di Gregorio getting a hand to it.

Milan were suddenly revitalised and Alvaro Morata sent Weston McKennie to ground, forcing a desperate block in the six-yard box.

Juve also crumbled, as we’ve seen so many times this season, and the Rossoneri turned the game around completely within four minutes. Musah ran onto the ball down the right and was trying to cross for Tammy Abraham, but it struck Federico Gatti and surprised Di Gregorio at the near post, where the goalkeeper had rushed off his line.

Di Gregorio did better making the decisive block on Pulisic after Abraham sparked a rapid counter-attack, while the Teun Koopmeiners free kick was straight at Maignan.

The last kick of the game saw a Kenan Yildiz cross nodded down for the Gatti volley wide of the near post, possibly with the aid of a Matteo Gabbia block.

Milan will face Inter in the Supercoppa Italiana Final on Monday evening, while Juventus return home after their second competitive defeat of the season.

Juventus 1-2 Milan

Yildiz 21 (J), Pulisic pen 71 (M), Gatti og 75 (M)

Juventus: Di Gregorio; Savona, Gatti, Kalulu, McKennie (Weah 85); Locatelli (Fagioli 85), Thuram (Douglas Luiz 79); Yildiz, Koopmeiners, Mbangula (Cambiaso 65); Vlahovic (Nico Gonzalez 65)

Milan: Maignan; Emerson Royal (Gabbia 82), Tomori, Thiaw, Theo Hernandez; Bennacer (Musah 53), Fofana, Reijnders; Pulisic, Morata (Terracciano 82), Jimenez (Abraham 61)

Ref: Colombo