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Andrea Pirlo has reasons to be mad after Juventus triumph in Champions League

Andrea Pirlo's team, Juventus, won on their debut at UEFA Champions League. Anyway, the coach have reasons to be mad.  

By Mauricio Saenz

Andrea Pirlo's team, Juventus, won on their debut at UEFA Champions League. Anyway, the coach have reasons to be mad.
 
Andrea Pirlo's team, Juventus, won on their debut at UEFA Champions League. Anyway, the coach have reasons to be mad.  
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Juventus beat Dynamo Kiev 2-0 in Ukraine and started the UEFA Champions League with the right leg. Although the team's general performance wasn't very good, Pirlo should be happy because wins always counts three points, even more in a game where Juve lacks of Cristiano Ronaldo. Neither way, "the Architect" ended the game deeply worried.

It happens that at at the 18th minuto of the first half Giorgio Chiellini, the 36 years-old Juventus captain, got injured and needed to be replaced. He place was took by Turkish Merih Demiral, who has played the past weekend as a starter in Juventus draw with Crotone. Chiellini got out of the field walking by himself.

Although the team didn't looked much affected by Chiellini's injury -in fact, Demiral get along very well with Leonardo Bonucci in Juventus' defensive line- to have your captain out for an injury is always something to worry about. According to Sky Sports, Giorgio Chiellini has sprain his right thigh.

The defender has scheduled medical checks for Thursday in Turin, but will almost surely loss this weekends game against Hellas Verona at Juventus Arena. That's bad news for Pirlo because Juventus hasn't had a good start at Serie A. The eight-time-in a row champion is 4-2-2 and trails leader AC Milan by four points.


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