Stuttgart won their first three points in the Champions League. At Juventus, VfB played furiously at times, but failed because of themselves for a long time – until injury time.
VfB Stuttgart has collected its first win of the current Champions League season. The Swabian Bundesliga team won 1-0 (0-0) at Juventus Turin. El Bilal Touré scored the goal of the day in stoppage time (90th +2 minutes).
Before that, however, Stuttgart were on the verge of despair because they missed numerous excellent scoring opportunities. For example, Ermedin Demirović hit the post with a powerful shot in the 29th minute; In addition, a goal by Deniz Undav in the 48th minute was disallowed after a review by the video referee due to previous handball. In the 85th minute, Enzo Millot also missed a penalty.
“It feels amazing to have won here at a club like Juve,” said national striker Undav on DAZN after the game. “Three days after the Bayern game, which was embarrassing, that was the right answer,” said the striker.
After the quite expected 1:3 at Real Madrid in mid-September and a rather disappointing 1:1 in front of the home crowd against Sparta Prague, VfB now has hope in the race for a place in the play-off thanks to the victory against the Turin team, who were favored on paper. offs round. The Swabians are currently in 16th out of 36 places.
The Turin team’s great successes were a few years ago, but the “Old Lady” still has a famous name. However, VfB were not impressed by this and were clearly the better team from the start. Coach Sebastian Hoeneß’ team appeared determined and fought Juve in midfield.
However, the Stuttgart team did not take advantage of their chances. They often looked for a way forward, especially on the left side with the national players Maximilian Mittelstädt and Jamie Leweling.
In the 29th minute, attacker Demirović slammed the ball flat against the right post after a fine pass from Millot. Juve goalkeeper Mattia Perin was still there with his fingertips – and was really challenged three minutes before half-time. The keeper directed a header from Deniz Undav after a cross from Angelo Stiller over the crossbar.
After the break, the picture was initially the same: VfB marched, Juve ran behind. Undav scored after a long diagonal ball from Mittelstädt to give the guests the supposed lead. Because he carried the ball slightly with his arm, the goal was withdrawn after a video check (50th). Stuttgart stuck with it and had further chances through Demirović (61′) and Millot (62′), Perin was there again in each case.
The game now had high entertainment value. Demirović, who was on the verge of a yellow-red card, preferred to take VfB coach Hoeneß out himself after just over an hour. Shortly later, Juve’s Kenan Yıldız was denied by Stuttgart’s national goalkeeper Nübel (67′). Yıldız also appeared dangerously in the penalty area in the 79th minute, but Josha Vagnoman saved.
Five minutes before the end, Millot had Stuttgart’s victory in hand. After a foul on Anthony Rouault, for which Juve’s defender Danilo saw yellow-red, the midfielder was denied a penalty by the outstanding Perin. It didn’t seem to be enough for VfB to win again, but then substitute Touré hit the ball into the net.