Renato Veiga’s late equaliser for Villarreal denied Juventus victory in the Champions League.<\/p>\n
In the 90th minute, Veiga, who was on loan at Juve during the second half of last season, thumped a powerful header past visiting goalkeeper Mattia Perin.<\/p>\n
Juventus had come from behind to lead Villarreal but were pegged back in the final minute of the game.<\/p>\n
The La Liga side had started on the front foot and on 18 minutes, Nicolas Pepe slid a delicate ball into the path of Georges Mikautadze, who fired into the bottom corner to put Villarreal in front.<\/p>\n
Two minutes into the second half, Juve forward Jonathan David inexplicably shot wide from close range after a teasing low cross from Francisco Conceicao.<\/p>\n
The Bianconeri found the leveller soon after when Federico Gatti thumped an overhead kick into the back of the net.<\/p>\n
Conceicao, who had come on at half-time, then raced clear through on goal and slotted past home goalkeeper Arnau Tenas as Juve turned the came around.<\/p>\n
Conceicao proved to be an inspired substitution for the away side, constantly driving at the Villarreal defence and another dangerous cross was nodded wide by Weston McKennie.<\/p>\n
However, Veiga’s late intervention means Juve have only won two of their last 10 matches in the competition (D5 L3).<\/p>\n
Villarreal host Manchester City next in the Champions League on 21 October (20:00 BST) with Juventus travelling to Real Madrid a day later (20:00 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renato Veiga’s late equaliser for Villarreal denied Juventus victory in the Champions League. In the 90th minute, Veiga,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-179884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}