Juventus celebrates in the Italian Cup but suffers at the desk: they could take away another 20 points and would be last in Serie A

Juventus, who are going through a particularly difficult moment, managed to reach the semi-finals of the Italian Cup by beating Lazio 1-0 in the duel that closed the quarter-finals on Thursday.

Argentina’s Ángel Di María came on as a substitute after the match, while Leandro Paredes and Matías Soulé were not in manager Massimiliano Allegri’s squad.

The only goal of the match in Turin was scored by the Brazilian Gleison Bremer (44th minute), with a header from a cross by Serbian Filip Kostic. It was the best chance of the first set and in the second the score didn’t move.

Moise Kean came close to extending Juventus’ lead in the 70th minute after a ball served by Colombian Juan Cuadrado, but Portuguese goalkeeper Luis Maximiano was careful.

This victory allows the Juventus take a breather and give hope to the club to end the season with a scudetto, the ‘Coppa’, as they were relegated to thirteenth place in Serie A after receiving a fifteen-point penalty for accounting fraud.

But the scenario could be even worse. According to information from the well-known local media, Corriere dello Sport, Juve could receive a new sporting sanction within a month. It would be another points discount, this time 20, which at this moment would leave him at the bottom of the standings, with only 3 units and 15 from the last team currently saving the category, Spezia.

In the Italian championship, Juventus have picked up just one point in their last three games (one draw, two defeats) and this victory in the Italian Cup strengthens confidence in view of Tuesday’s decisive away match against Salernitana (14th), in the match that will close the 21st Serie A day, which starts on Saturday.

“We had just lost against Monza, so it wasn’t an easy situation for us. Now we’ve managed to lay the foundations to find our form again in the league,” said the Juventus coach.

In the semi-finals, a group that will already be played with two-legged matches, Juventus will face Inter led by Lautaro Martínez and Joaquín Correa, who opened the quarter-finals on Tuesday by beating Atalanta 1-0, also thanks to Matteo Darmian .

Inter Milan are the current Coppa Italia champions, recently won the Supercoppa Italiana and are runners-up in Serie A, so they are emerging as the favorites among the teams that survive in the competition.

The other semifinal of the tournament will be played by Fiorentina and the surprising Cremonese.

The latter, last in Serie A without having won any match in twenty days, gave the big surprise of this round by winning on Wednesday 2-1 against Roma, a team that is fighting for places in the Champions League.

Cremonese surprised by taking the lead in that game with goals from Cyril Desser (28 from a penalty) and Zeki Celik (49). Roma barely managed to cut short on 90+4, with a late goal from Andrea Belotti.

Fiorentina, for its part, qualified for the ‘hemispheric’ after beating Turin 2-1, also on Wednesday.

The Serbian striker Luka Jovic opened the scoring in that duel on Wednesday (65) and the Frenchman Jonathan Ikone sentenced to 90. Torino have already hit the mark on 90+3, thanks to the Ivorian Yann Karamoh.

With the information of the Agencies