Game is over and the final score is Juventus 1-0 Freiburg. Here is the match report.
2022/2023 UEFA Europa League
1-0
Match Report
Angel Di Maria came to the rescue again as Juventus take a slender 1-0 advantage to Freiburg in the Europa League Round of 16, but there is another Federico Chiesa scare.
The Bianconeri stuck with Angel Di Maria supporting Dusan Vlahovic, still missing Arkadiusz Milik and Kaio Jorge, but Paul Pogba was frozen out for disciplinary reasons after turning up late to a team meeting. The Germans had Daniel-Kofi Kyereh out for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament and Woo-yeong Jeong left behind, but Michael Gregoritsch returned from illness with Italy international Vincenzo Grifo upfront.
Adrien Rabiot had a huge chance with his angled drive, as the goalkeeper stuck out a boot to deflect it all the way across the face of goal. The move continued and Rabiot had the ball in the net, but only after the referee had stopped play for a rather weak Manuel Locatelli foul.
Juan Cuadrado bent his free kick around the wall, forcing Mark Flekken to palm it away at the base of the near post, but Alex Sandro had already been in doubt and limped off after just 23 minutes.
Dusan Vlahovic’s free kick was palmed out from under the bar and Gleison Bremer couldn’t keep the header down at the back post from a powerful Di Maria corner.
After the restart, Vlahovic nodded a Di Maria cross over, so the World Cup winner took matters into his own hands yet again with a powerful free header into the roof of the net on Filip Kostic’s cross from the left. After the hat-trick in Nantes, Di Maria scored each of Juve’s last four Europa League goals.
Match Events
0' The match is about to start!
18' Cuadrado's shot stopped
24' Yellow Card! Ginter booked
31' CHANCE! Gleison's header over the bar
46' CHANCE! Vlahovic's header over the bar
51' Yellow Card! Lucas Höler booked
53' GOAL! Juventus 1-0 Freiburg (Di Maria)
64' Goooal... No! Holer’s goal disallowed after VAR review
84' Yellow Card! Bonucci booked
Line-ups
Juventus XI: Szczesny, Di Maria, Cuadrado, Danilo, Sandro, Kostic, Rabiot, Locatelli, Dusan Vlahovic, Gleison, Fabio Miretti
Subs: Bonucci, Pinsoglio, Perin, Rugani, Paredes, Kean, Chiesa, Nicolò Fagioli, Enzo Barrenechea, Federico Gatti, Matías Soulé
Freiburg XI: Höfler, Kübler, Ginter, Günter, Mark Flekken, V. Grifo, Lienhart, Lucas Höler, Eggestein, Roland Sallai, Kiliann Sildillia
Subs: Petersen, M. Gulde, Schmid, Gregoritsch, Benjamin Uphoff, Ritsu Doan, Yannik Keitel, Noah Atubolu, Noah Weißhaupt, Kenneth Schmidt, Merlin Röhl, Robert Wagner