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Álvaro Morata was the match winner in Kiev
Photo: VALENTYN OGIRENKO / REUTERS
Juventus won 2-0 (0-0) at Dynamo Kiev at the start of the Champions League.
Álvaro Morata scored both goals for the Italian champions (46th minute, 84th).
Superstar Cristiano Ronaldo missed the game because of his corona infection.
From the start, Juventus played in a controlled manner and determined the game.
A first low shot by Federico Chiesa was able to fend off Kiev goalkeeper Georgiy Bushchan (12th).
While trying to catch the following corner, Bushchan let the ball drip onto the head of Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini (13th).
After Bushchan conceded a similar goal in the international match between Ukraine and Germany last time, the keeper was lucky this time that Chiellini missed the goal from a meter away.
For Chiellini, the game was over shortly afterwards due to thigh problems, while Merih Demiral joined the game for Juventus' defensive boss (19th).
The defensive of the Italian champions was not challenged in the episode either, instead Bushchan had to parry against Dejan Kulusevski, who had come from close range with the hoe to the conclusion (34th).
Pirlo defeats his discoverer
After the break, another hoe from Turin caused danger, this time from Aaron Ramsey: The Welshman artfully put on for Kulusevski, whose shot from 17 meters was blocked by Bushchan.
Morata pushed the rebound to lead over the line (46th).
As a result, Kiev lacked the means to create opportunities and find their way back into the game.
With a header goal from five meters, Morata removed the last doubts about Turin away win in the final phase (84th).
For Juventus' Andrea Pirlo it was the Champions League debut as a coach.
Pirlo has a special relationship with the head coach of Dynamo Kiev, Mircea Lucescu: The 75-year-old Romanian helped Pirlo make his professional debut in 1995 as a coach at Brescia Calcio.
Zenit St. Petersburg - Club Brugge 1: 2 (0: 0)
Club Bruges achieved a 2-1 win over Zenit St. Petersburg.
As a result, the Belgians have better chances of advancing or third place in Group F behind the favored teams Borussia Dortmund and Lazio Rome for the moment.
In a game in which Zenit was superior in terms of play, the big highlights stayed away for a long time.
The guests had their first scoring opportunities shortly before the break: Mikhail Kerzhakov fended off a Hans Vanaken header from close range with a strong reflex to the corner;
before it was again Vanaken who tried a distance just over the Russian goal.
Sebastian Driussi had the best chance for Zenit shortly after the break.
His low shot from 20 meters just missed the target.
Emmanuel Bonaventure Dennis (63.) scored the curious and equally hard-won opening goal.
The Bruges attacker saved the ball just short of the baseline and tipped it in the middle, where Charles de Ketelaere's deals were cleared twice on the line.
Only on the third attempt was it Dennis himself who maneuvered the ball over the line.
On the other side, the ex-Liverpool player Dejan Lovren hit with a powerful, placed long-range shot into the right corner to equalize in the meantime (74th).
In the third minute of four-minute stoppage time, de Ketelaeres shocked the Russians with the late winning goal.
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