Hamburg Hand Juventus Another Defeat It is simply not going to plan. At least not yet, as they slumped to a 0-1 defeat to Hamburger SV thanks to an 85th minute strike from Choupo-Moting.
Claudio Ranieri started with Del Piero and Palladino up front, but it was a scoreless and lacklustre first half as neither of the two sides showed much.
Things improved thereafter, with Rafael Van der Vaart coming close for Hamburg, and Del Piero, Boumsong and Cristico for Juventus.
Castelen and Zidan caused some problems for Juve, and Salihamidzic delivered some good crosses at the other end, but it still looked like it would end scoreless as the game moved into the final ten minutes.
That almost changed in the 81st minute, when Almiron struck the post immediately after coming on for Zanetti.
However, it was to be Hamburg's night, as substitute Choupo-Moting beat Belardi with five minutes left on the clock to heap a second consecutive defeat on the Old Lady.
Hamburg: Rost - Demel, Reinhardt, Mathijensen, Benjamin - Trochowsky, De Jong, Brecko - Van der Vart, Castelen; Zidan.
Substitutes: Hosl, Kompany, Olic, Jarolim, Choupo-Moting, Saka, Addo, Sam.
Juventus: Belardi - Birindelli, Legrottaglie, Boumsong, Criscito - Blasi, Nocerino, Zanetti (80’, Almiron), Salihamidzic - Del Piero (85’, Nedved), Palladino (82’, Iaquinta).
Substitutes: Vanstrattan, Zebina, Andrade, Grygera, Chiellini, Molinaro, Tiago, Marchionni, Trezeguet.
Full report to follow...
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