Sassuolo 0-2 Juventus: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 29 January 2017
Result
Sassuolo 0-2 Juventus
Serie A · Sunday 29 January 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-2
Sassuolo 0-2 Juventus: match report
Sassuolo were beaten by Juventus 0-2 in Serie A on Sunday 29 January 2017. It was 0-2 at half-time.
Gonzalo Higuaín opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Sassuolo did not score. Juventus scored through Gonzalo Higuaín (9') and Sami Khedira (25').
Discipline: Sassuolo received 3 yellow cards; Juventus received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Sassuolo were 11th on 27 points from 21 and Juventus 1st on 48 points from 20. Sassuolo went on to finish that season 10th with 49 points, and Juventus 1st with 91.
Sassuolo lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Juventus in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Gonzalo Higuaín of Juventus (8.2), ahead of Sami Khedira (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sassuolo win, 1 draw and 5 for Juventus.
Going into the match Sassuolo's last five read W-W-D-L-L and Juventus's W-L-W-W-W.
Key events
- 9'Goal · Gonzalo Higuaín
- 23'Yellow card · Matteo Politano
- 25'Goal · Sami Khedira
- 37'Yellow card · Luca Mazzitelli
- 58'Yellow card · Miralem Pjanic
- 65'Yellow card · Federico Peluso
Head-to-head
Team news
Sassuolo line-up (4-2-3-1)
Andrea Consigli, Luca Antei, Federico Peluso, Francesco Acerbi, Paolo Cannavaro, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Matteo Politano, Alberto Aquilani, Luca Mazzitelli, Domenico Berardi, Alessandro Matri
Juventus line-up (4-2-3-1)
Gianluigi Buffon, Giorgio Chiellini, Alex Sandro, Leonardo Bonucci, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Miralem Pjanić, Sami Khedira, Juan Cuadrado, Mario Mandžukić, Paulo Dybala, Gonzalo Higuaín