Result: Juventus 1-1 Hellas Verona
Date: 25 October 2020
Venue: Allianz Stadium
Juventus dropped points in Serie A for a second straight game without Cristiano Ronaldo after they were held to a 1-1 draw by Hellas Verona on Sunday night.
Bianconeri made four changes from the side that beat Dynamo Kiev midweek, with Paulo Dybala, Merih Demiral, Arthur and Federico Bernardeschi all recalled while Ronaldo was still missing after returning a positive second Covid-19 test.
The game was open in the early stages and Ebrima Colley thought he had snatched the lead for Verona in the first quarter of an hour with a close-range finish after a good attack, but the goal was disallowed for offside.
The match was getting scrappy towards the half-hour mark but it came to life towards the end of the first stanza as Juan Cuadrado was denied a spectacular goal by the woodwork after unleashing a first-time strike.
Alvaro Morata thought he had snatched the lead for Juventus on the stroke of half-time after looping a shot over goalkeeper Marco Silvestri from Cuadrado's through ball but the goal was chalked off for offside by the Video Assistant Referee (VAR).
Verona continued to threaten coming from the break and substitute Andrea Favilli eventually broke the deadlock on the hour-mark with a sweeping strike inside the box after he was setup by Mattia Zaccagni from a counter-attack.
Morata came close to levelling matters for Andrea Pirlo's charges in the last 20 minutes with sweeping strike from the centre of the box that was saved by Silvestri in the bottom corner.
Dybala also came very close to snatching the equaliser for Juventus in the last quarter of an hour with a deflected shot that came off the crossbar but substitute Dejan Kulusevski got the leveller three minutes later with a side-footed shot into the bottom corner.
Dybala was nearly for the Old Lady in the last four minutes with a strike from the edge of the box that missed the bottom corner by a whisker before Silvestri saved Morata's point-blank range header in stoppage time as Verona held on to move up to eighth, just a point behind fifth-placed Juventus.
