Kenan Yildiz took two assists to lead Juventus to a 2-0 win over Udinese in the Allianz Stadium on Sunday to get closer to a Champions League place next season.
2024/2025 Series A
2-0
- N. Gonzalez (61 ')
- Vlahovic (88 ')
Match report
Yildiz brought his series a goal contribution to 10 (six goals, four assists) with his display, in which Juve had a victory over Venezia on the last day, will seal a top-four finish.
The Igor Tudor team produced a dominant show in the first half, where 16 shots were registered with the three of Udinese, but was unable to find a way that keeper Maduka Okoye visited.
Randal Kolo Muani had the best chance of the hosts and saw his broken effort divested by Okoye before the shot of Nicolas Gonzalez was pushed on the post remotely.
But Juventus had their pressure paid in the 61st minute when Gonzalez focused the ball in the left corner after the Solet in the Oumar was earned in his own box.
The hosts continued to threaten, but could not make clear openings to two minutes from time from time via top scorer Dusan Vlahovic.
Yildiz led a lightning break of a Udinese attack, which played Vlahovic in the box before the Serbian collected the ball and chose the corner right with a nice finish.
The fourth placed Juventus moved to 67 points, one for De Roma, which AC Milan defeated 3-1, with Lazio a point further eagerly after they had held inter to a 2-2 draw.
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Data Debrief: Tudor finds comfort at home with Juventus
Juventus has won eight of their last nine home games in the Serie A (L1), after collecting only two victories in their previous nine (D7), with that revival in form to Tudor.
Juventus has indeed won each of their four Series A -home competitions under Tudor. In the past 50 years, only Massimiliano Allegri won each of their first four games in the home in 2014 and Maurizio Sarri in 2019 in the competition with the club.
But their victory was led by the stunning performance of Yildiz, with the 20-year-old the youngest player in the Serie A this season to register 10 target involvement.
Yildiz also ended the match with team -high totals for touches in the opposition box (10), opportunities created (six) and successful dribbles (three).
Line-ups
Juventus XI: Locatelli, Di Gregorio, N. Gonzalez, Lloyd Kelly, Muani, McKennie, Francisco Conukição, Andrea Cambiaso, Yıldız, Renato Veiga, Alberto Costa
Subs: Pinsoglio, Perin, Vlahovic, Douglas Luiz, Timothy Weah, Mbangula, Gatti, Rouhi, Riccardo Turicchia, Adzic, Javier Gil
Udinese XI: Kabasele, Jesper Karlström, Hassane Kamara, Sandi Lovrić, Kingsley Ehizibue, Davis, Solet, Maduka Okoye, Ekkelenkamp, ​​Oier Zarraga, Thomas Kristensen
Subs: Sanchez, Padelli, Lautaro Giannetti, Rui Modessto, Jordan Zemura, Rurance Sava, Simone Pafundi, Damián Pizarro, Matteo Palma