Fiorentina 0-1 Juventus: Late Lorenzo Venuti own goal hands Juve Coppa Italia semi-final first leg win over Fiorentina

An unfortunate own goal from second half substitute Lorenzo Venuti in injury-time sees Juventus snatch a 1-0 win over Fiorentina on Dusan Vlahovic’s return to Florence. In a game where Fiorentina looked the more likely to score, with Juventus registering just the one shot on target, Juventus snatched the victory through Venuti, setting up a finely-poised second leg in Turin on April 21.

Ad/> Fiorentina were the better side in the first half. Juventus’ second choice goalkeeper Mattia Perin almost gifted Fiorentina a glorious chance to open the scoring in the 14th minute when his poor clearance landed at the feet of Giacomo Bonaventura, but he fired his first-time shot over the bar.

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Ikone came closest to scoring for La Viola in the second half. In the 49th minute, former Arsenal midfielder Lucas Torreira fed the ball into his path, but the Frenchman’s left-footed curling shot from inside the box clattered off the post.

Both sides were reduced to half chances in a scrappy half, with Vlahovic getting physically dominated by the Fiorentina defence in front of a hostile crowd, and it looked like the second leg would be a one-off shoot-out. But in the final minute of injury time, it was disaster for Venuti as he turned the ball into his own net, allowing a cross from Juan Cuadrado into the box to ricochet off him, under little pressure, and roll into his own