Juventus finally battered Cremonese into submission with Nicolò Fagioli and Gleison Bremer goals, but the game was overshadowed by yet another injury to Paul Pogba.
2022/2023 Serie A
2-0
Pogba had a bright start, turning Ferrari only to have Vlad Chiriches block off the shot, but after 21 minutes he pulled up following a strike from distance and immediately seemed distraught.
It was yet another injury, receiving treatment to his left knee, and went off in tears to make way for Arkadiusz Milik.
Chiesa dribbled past two down the left before laying it off to the edge of the box for Fagioli to unleash a right-foot rocket into the roof of the net.
Juventus doubled their lead as Milik flicked on a Di Maria corner and Bremer reacted quickly to the odd ricochet off a Cremonese player, nodding in from point-blank range.
Line-ups
Juventus XI: Cuadrado, Danilo, Perin, Paredes, Pogba, Rabiot, Dusan Vlahovic, Chiesa, Gleison, Nicolò Fagioli, Federico Gatti
Subs: Szczesny, Di Maria, Sandro, Pinsoglio, Kostic, Rugani, Milik, Locatelli, Kean, Tommaso Barbieri, Samuel Iling Junior, Fabio Miretti
Cremonese XI: Chiriches, Meite, Benassi, Pablo Galdames, A.Ferrari, Luka Lochoshvili, Okereke, Marco Carnesecchi, Johan Vásquez, Giacomo Quagliata, Felix Afena-Gyan
Subs: Daniel Ciofani, Cristian Buonaiuto, Michele Castagnetti, Bianchetti, Ghiglione, M. Sarr, Leonardo Sernicola, Emanuele Valeri, Emanuel Aiwu, Gianluca Saro, Christian Acella, Alberto Basso Ricci