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Paulo Dybala played after three months: how was his performance at Juventus?

Juventus beat Dynamo Kiev 2-0 in Andrea Pirlo's debut as coach in Champions League. Paulo Dybala returned to action after three months.

By Mauricio Saenz

Juventus beat Dynamo Kiev 2-0 in Andrea Pirlo's debut as coach in Champions League. Paulo Dybala returned to action after three months.
Juventus beat Dynamo Kiev 2-0 in Andrea Pirlo's debut as coach in Champions League. Paulo Dybala returned to action after three months.

Juventus started their Champions League way with the right foot. They beat Dynamo Kiev 2-0 at Kiev Olympic Stadium in a game that wasn't completely confortable for the Vecchia Signora. Anyway, is always important for a team to start with a win on Champions League, specially when playing away. But that's not the only reason to be happy for Andrea Pirlo: Paulo Dybala is back, too.

The Argentinian footballer had been injured for more than three months. Last time he played was on August the 7th, when JUventus beat Lyon 2-1 in the Champions League's playoffs, but wasn't able to avance because had won the home game 1-0 and got to Quarter Finals because of the advantage of the away goal.

Dybala wasn't ready to came back to the fields when Maurizio Sarri sent him to the game on the second half of the match against Lyon. The Argentinian winger could only stay in play for just 13 minutes before his body got sorehead from his previous injury. The sort preseason also attentive against Dybala's recovery.

The first games of Pirlo's tenure as Juventus coach hasn't came without controversy with Dybala. Newly Juventus manager doesn't want to compromise the physical state of one of the most important players of his team, but Paulo was impatience and even shown his displeasure to the Juventus sporting director Fabio Peratici. Today, he came back and, although he didn't played a great game, he shown that his talent is intact and that he just need a couple of games to regain his level. 


Mauricio Saenz

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