Newcastle United Football Club - Match reports -Juventus (n)

Season 1997-98
Juventus (Italy) (n) Friendly

Date: Sunday 3rd August 1997, 9pm local time

Venue: Stadio Comunale La Fiorita, Cesena, Italy

Conditions: warm

Admission: Łtbc

Programme: None

Juventus		Newcastle
	3 - 2
Half time:	3 - 0

Score Sheet:
(1) Ferrara (3) Inzaghi (34) Inzaghi		Asprilla (70) Asprilla (82)

	Teams
Rampulla Pessotto Ferrara Montero Dimas Di Livio Deschamps Conte Zidane Del Piero Inzaghi		Given Barton Pistone Albert Pearce Beresford Batty Hamilton Lee Asprilla Tomasson

Substitutes:
(61) Padovano for Inzaghi (61) Fonseca for Del Piero (61) Pecchia for Zidane (61) Tacchinardi for Deschamps (61) Birindelli for Dimas (63) Juliano for Montero (73) Zamboni for Ferrara		Ketsbaia for Hamilton (14) Srnicek for Given (46) Watson for Albert (61) Beardsley for Tomasson (78)

Subs not used:
De Sanctis		Hughes Gudjonsson Pinas

Bookings:
None		Barton
Dismissals:
None		None

Referee: Pasquale Rodomonti (Teramo)

Attendance: 22,511

Goals

55 seconds mins Ferrera 0-1

3 mins Inzaghi 0-2

34 mins Inzaghi 0-3

Half time: Juventus 3 Newcastle 0

70 mins Asprilla penalty 1-3

82 mins Asprilla shot 2-3

Full time: Juventus 3 Newcastle 2

We Said

Kenny:

"Considering the terrible start we had, I thought the team showed terrific character to hit back in such grand style.

"I rate Juventus as one of, if not the best, teams in Europe and if this game had been played in the context of a two-legged European competition, the result would have been all the more creditable.

"Tino played really well for the team, deserving his penalty and he took his second very well. He led the line showing all of his experience."

They Said

Marcelo Lippi:

To follow

Stats

Pre-season pitch time (in minutes):

Barton 90+90+90+90+90+0+90=540
Ketsbaia 90+45+58+75+34+90+76=468
Albert 90+45+90+90+0+71+61=447
Watson 90+90+0+90+34+90+29=423 (1 goal)
Tomasson 90+90+45+90+18+78=411 (4 goals)
Lee 90+90+0+75+56+90+0=401
Hughes 19+90+90+0+90+90+0=379
Hamilton 0+73+90+15+90+90+14=372
Pearce 0+0+90+90+0+90+90=360
Gillespie 90+17+90+90+56+0+0=343 (1 goal)
Beardsley 0+90+45+1+90+90+12=328 (2 goals)
Batty 45+0+0+90+35+62+90=322
Shearer 90+0+90+89+0+0+0=269 (1 goal)
Asprilla 0+0+0+90+72+1+90=253 (3 goals)
Beresford 0+0+0+0+90+45+90=225
Given 90+0+0+90+0+45+0=225
Srnicek 0+90+0+0+90+45+0=225
Howey 71+45+0+0+90+0+0=206
Ferdinand 0+90+90+0+0+0+0=180
Hislop 0+0+90+0+0+90+0=180
Crawford 0+45+0+0+65+28+0=138 (1 goal)
Pistone 0+0+0+0+0+45+90=135
Pinas 0+0+32+0+0+1+0=33
Elliott 0+0+0+0+0+19+0=19
(+ 1 og)

Waffle

United supplied the opposition for this friendly staged in the Italian city of Cesena (over 200 miles away from Turin) as part of the Centenary celebrations for the Biaconerri, who wore shirts in their original colours of pink, meaning that the Magpies could play in black and white.

Goals from Ferrara and Inzaghi (2) could have been followed by many more but the reigning Serie A champions dropped the pace and allowed United to give the score a respectable look.

Already without Alan Shearer following the serious injury sustained against Chelsea the previous weekend, Des Hamilton left the field on a stretcher with a badly twisted ankle that saw him hospitalised when the squad returned to Newcastle.

United started the second half without a keeper, as half time substitute Pavel Srnicek ambled across the pitch towards goal, seemingly oblivious to the referee's whistle.

Tino Asprilla reduced the arrears from the penalty spot after he was fouled in the box, before cracking home a late second. However there was no further scoring, meaning that the Italians lifted the Centenary Cup.

Biffa

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