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The first loss of the season is here, and it comes on a night in which Juventus were clearly not as good as their opponent. There were a few moments where you thought that maybe, just maybe, Juventus could get something out of Tuesday night?s Champions League matchup against Stuttgart even though they were very much not up to snub with their German opposition. Juve were bending but not breaking, with a whole lot of that due to the fact that Mattia Perin was simply playing out of his mind in goal.
Even down to 10 men, they bent as much as you could, only for Perin to literally save them once again.
But leave it to a guy who has called Bergamo home within the last calendar year to be the one who finally broke the dam no matter how good Perin had been for the previous 92 minutes. Juventus? unbeaten run to begin the Thiago Motta is now something we will talk about in the past tense, my friends. Juve were able to hold on for 91 minutes against a team they were very much not playing as well as, but substitute El Bilal Touré ? who is only loan from Atalanta ? finished off a ping-pong-like combination of passes from Stuttgart outside the Juventus box to give the German side their long-sought 1-0 lead and the win over Motta?s side at the Juventus Stadium. It was the kind of result, based on how each team performed, that was certainly the right kind of outcome. Because, let?s face it, Juventus did not play well a...