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Football: Juventus ease past Genoa

to keep faint Serie A title hopes alive

Juventus' Weston McKennie celebrates scoring his side's third goal against Genoa with Rodrigo Bentancur,
Adrien Rabiot and Alex Sandro at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, Italy, on Sunday, Apr 11, 2021. (Photo:
Reuters/Massimo Pinca)

TURIN, Italy: Juventus eased to a 3-1 victory over Genoa on Sunday (Apr 11) to keep
alive their faint hopes of making it 10 successive Serie A titles this season.

The champions raced into a comfortable lead inside 22 minutes thanks to goals from
Dejan Kulusevski and Alvaro Morata, the Spanish striker converting after Cristiano
Ronaldo had hit the post.

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Juventus have not been convincing recently, however, and let the visitors back into
the match four minutes after the break with Gianluca Scamacca finding the net.

Genoa had chances to level, but Weston McKennie stepped off the bench to make
sure of the victory 20 minutes from time as third-placed Juventus moved onto 62
points after 30 matches, one behind AC Milan and 12 adrift of leaders Inter Milan.

Napoli climbed to fourth in the standings thanks to a 2-0 win at Sampdoria while
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic's stoppage-time goal earned sixth-placed Lazio a 1-0
victory at Hellas Verona.
 AS Roma host Bologna and fifth-placed Atalanta travel to Fiorentina later on
Sunday.

11 Apr 2021 11:05PM

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