In their Club World Cup opener against Al Ain on Wednesday, Ronald Kolo Muani and Francisco Conceicao both scored goals in the win over Al Ain.
The Italian giants topped Group G above Manchester City, who defeated Wydad AC, who earlier sent a delegation to visit US President Donald Trump earlier in the day.
Trump questioned some Juventus players and staff members about their expectations of a woman starting in their first team after they presented them with a club shirt.
Trump’s alleged bias toward transgender athletes was apparent.
Damien Comolli, the club’s general manager, responded that the team had a “very good women’s team.”
As Juventus defeated UAE’s Al Ain in front of 18, 000 fans at Audi Field, the players kept quiet but felt much more at ease speaking on the field.
It was a real pleasure to visit the White House, according to Juventus coach Igor Tudor, who doesn’t visit it every day.
All things considered, it’s a good start because we did a number of excellent things in the game, and we played at a good tempo.
Kolo Muani, who was on a loan from Paris Saint-Germain to compete in the American tournament, opened the scoring with a header from Alberto Costa’s cross after 11 minutes.
Ten minutes later, when Conceicao, who is on loan from Porto, skipped past one defender in the box before deflecting home with a deflection, Juventus doubled their lead.
After 31 minutes, Turkish forward Kenan Yildiz made a third-minute breakthrough by drilling in from the near post.
Kolo Muani’s deft finish in stoppage time added to Al Ain’s misery with a deft finish in the second half.
Before Conceicao struck again, benefiting from another minor deflection, Kouame Autonne was denied a goal for the UAE side for offside.
Kolo Muani’s hat-trick was easily accomplished when Douglas Luiz blasted narrowly off-target late on, but goalkeeper Rui Patricio’s defense kept him in check.
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Juventus, who finished fourth in serie A, are aiming to win more games in the summer with success in the US.
The team won the game, and Kolo Muani is pleased with that and will prepare for the following one.
“I just want to play well for my team, for the club, and we’ll see how many points I can score,” said one player.
Al Ain’s next game against Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City in Atlanta is unlikely to go any easier.
At the beginning, we respected (Juventus), and this enabled them to easily score two or three goals, according to Al Ain’s Serbian coach Vladimir Ivic.
What should we do given that we played against such a strong team at the World Cup? The following one needs to be thought out.
Source: Channels TV
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