Juventus Defeat Relegated Venezia To Bag Champions League Spot

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Last Updated:May 26, 2025, 08:18 IST

Juventus bagged a Champions League spot by defeating Venezia 3-2, portion Roma missed retired contempt winning 2-0 astatine Torino.

Manuel Locatelli celebrates a extremity during the Serie A Enilive shot lucifer betwixt Venezia and Juventus (Picture credit: AP)

Juventus qualified for the Champions League connected Sunday, beating relegated Venezia 3-2 to pip Roma, 2-0 winners astatine Torino, to Serie A’s last spot by a azygous point.

Manuel Locatelli’s punishment successful the 73rd infinitesimal won an breathtaking contention connected the Venice Lagoon and secured Juve 4th spot connected the last time of an eventful season.

“It wasn’t casual with 3 matches distant from location against nonstop rivals successful the last fewer weeks. It’s a bully achievement. I’m happy," said Juve manager Igor Tudor, who, Italian media person reported, is to beryllium replaced by Antonio Conte this summer.

Tudor, who took implicit from sacked Thiago Motta successful March, said his destiny would beryllium made nationalist earlier the upcoming Club World Cup, which starts adjacent month.

“Before, before. We’ll cognize soon, and that’s the close mode to bash it," said Tudor.

“If idiosyncratic goes determination but has nary aboriginal astatine the club, it’s not close that they spell there. But not for me, for the club."

Juve looked acceptable for a straightforward triumph erstwhile quickfire goals from Kenan Yildiz and Randal Kolo Muani enactment them up connected the half-hour, aft they had fallen down to Daniel Fila’s onslaught successful the 2nd minute.

But Ridgeciano Haps gave Venezia, who had to triumph to person immoderate accidental of staying up, anticipation of endurance 9 minutes aft the interruption and enactment Roma concisely fourth.

Claudio Ranieri’s Roma were 2 goals up astatine that constituent done a Leandro Paredes punishment successful the 18th infinitesimal and Alexis Saelemaekers’ header 7 minutes aft the break, with fans of the superior nine hoping Venezia would clasp out.

However, Locatelli calmly stroked Juve backmost into the pb and Europe’s apical nine contention aft Francisco Conceicao was clumsily brought down successful the punishment country by Hans Nicolussi Caviglia.

Ranieri ended his coaching career, conscionable missing retired connected giving Roma their archetypal Champions League qualification since 2018, aft dragging his boyhood nine up from adjacent the relegation spots pursuing his 2nd instrumentality successful November.

“We’re atrocious for the fans, but we gave everything, and erstwhile you springiness everything, you tin lone beryllium satisfied," said Ranieri, who retires for the 2nd clip successful the abstraction of a year.

Ranieri remained coy connected who would regenerate him for adjacent season, lone saying that “the president volition determine erstwhile to denote his appointment".

Como’s Cesc Fabregas and Gian Piero Gasperini, whose third-placed Atalanta mislaid 3-2 astatine location to Parma, are the astir commonly reported names cited arsenic Ranieri’s successor.

A Europa League spot is inactive immoderate accomplishment for Roma, fixed wherever they were erstwhile Ranieri arrived, particularly with section rivals Lazio not having immoderate European shot adjacent play aft losing 1-0 astatine location to Lecce, who stayed up.

Lazio dropped retired of the European places with their decision astatine the Stadio Olimpico, and Fiorentina claimed the UEFA Conference League spot with a 3-2 triumph implicit Udinese.

Venezia, meanwhile, articulation bottommost nine Monza and Empoli, 2-1 losers astatine location to relegation rivals Verona, successful Serie B.

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