Juventus was frustrated by the grainy defense of the PSV Eindhoven until Weston McKennie broke the dead end with an elegant goal during his Champions League qualifiers on Tuesday.
The United States midfielder has struck a graduate shot in the upper right corner since he was just inside the penalty area in the 34th minute, after a race.
“It was a good goal, even if I think I scored better against Barcelona in 2020. I was very lucky!” McKennie told Sky Sport Italia.
“I was calm because last week, in training, I scored a lot of goals, so I felt quite confident. The important thing is not to mark a goal or to provide a decisive pass, but to help the team win. “
The goal of McKennie sent Juventus on the way to a 2-1 victory against the Dutch team of the resilient, replacing him Samuel Mbangula catching the winner in the 82nd for his first goal in the Champions League.
McKennie, 26, has a decent return of 11 goals in 58 games for the American team and it was his third in the Champions League this season – all with his right of confidence and all in the victories. In the league phase, he scored against Manchester City and in the first match against PSV.
His 7th goal UCL MCKENNIE in Elite Concacaf Company. He joined a selected group of players from the region, tracing Javier Hernández (14 goals), Christian Pulisic (12), Dwight Yorke (11) and Jonathan David (9) in the goals scored in the competition.
“My role is not important, I work for the team,” said the USMNT star.
“We all work just for the team, whether back or a midfielder. I played in a more central position this evening. But the team still wants to move forward, and it’s a team effort . “
The objective came after the PSV neutralized the striker Randal Kolo Muani – who had scored five goals in his three games since he participated in Paris Saint -Germain.
McKennie was not the only American international international.
Timothy Weah threatened with a few good races in the right; Almost creating Kolo Muani at the start of the first half and Mbangula at the start of the second period.
The home crowd was silenced in the 56th when the veteran midfielder Ivan Perisic marked the 56th. The technically gifted perisque was round by Juve fans because he played seven years for his Italian Rival Inter Milan from 2015 to 22, scoring 55 goals and winning the Serie A in 2021 and the Italian Cup a year later.
The prints were an underway curse this season for Juve, which attracted three of the eight games in the Group phase of the Champions League and 13 in 24 games in Serie A.
There were therefore generalized reliefs, fans in the coach Thiago Motta, when Mbangula swept the ball after goalkeeper Walter Benitez overturned the right cross of Francisco Conceição.
The information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
