Add Weston McKennie and Tim Weah to the rising checklist of American trophy winners in Europe this season.
Each McKennie and Weah featured on Wednesday, serving to Juventus down Atalanta 1-0 within the Coppa Italia Ultimate. McKennie began and performed 90 minutes in midfield whereas Weah got here off the bench and performed the ultimate 9 minutes of the match.
It marks the primary Coppa Italia for Juventus for the reason that 2020-21 season, during which McKennie was part of.
Dusan Vlahovic delivered the opening and lone objective of the match within the fourth minute. Andrea Cambiaso’s cross allowed Vlahovic to race into the field earlier than the Serbian fought off Isak Hien and drilled a shot into the again of the online.
Vlahovic got here near doubling Juventus’ lead within the 74th minute however VAR waved off the objective and saved Atalanta’s hopes alive. Nevertheless, Gian Piero Gasperini’s facet couldn’t discover an equalizer, failing to register a shot heading in the right direction within the match.
McKennie celebrated his third trophy in Italian Soccer whereas Weah celebrated his first since becoming a member of from Lille final summer time.
“It was an necessary evening, taking part in a closing is at all times an exquisite occasion,” Allegri stated posmtatch in a membership interview. “It’s a crew victory. It was not straightforward and I’m very blissful for the boys, they did job and gave a pleasure to the membership, the followers and me. We went by three onerous months that might be of nice development, Juventus is a vital membership and we received what we wanted to get: the Champions League and taking part in a Coppa Italia closing that the boys then did nicely to win.”
The Previous Girl closes their season in opposition to Bologna and Monza in Serie A play.