It’s a comfortable win for Juventus in the end, as they progress to the Quarter-finals.
Cuadrado and Rabiot gave Sampdoria too many troubles in defence.
And they were powerless to stop wave after wave of Juventus attack.
The visitors had a glimmer of hope when they pulled it back to 2-1 with Conti’s well-struck volley.
But a huge error in goal from Falcone gave Dybala the easiest of opportunities to seal the game for the hosts.
Morata will be delighted to get on the scoresheet with his late penalty, won by Ake.
who looked incredibly threatening in his brief cameo.
As for Sampdoria, they played exactly like a side unable to stop the rot.
And will need to get a new manager in rapidly to shore up their defence if they want to turn their fortunes around this season.
Starting Lineup:
JUVENTUS (4-4-1-1): Mattia Perin;
Danilo, Mattia De Sciglio, Daniele Rugani, Alex Sandro;
Manuel Locatelli, Juan Cuadrado, Arthur, Adrien Rabiot;
Dejan Kulusevski; Alvaro Morata.
SUBS: Marley, Koni de Winter, Carlo Pinsoglio, Rodrigo Bentancur,
Wojciech Szczesny, Kaio Jorge, Luca Pellegrini, Paulo Dybala,
Matias Soule Malvano, Weston McKennie, Fabio Miretti, Giorgio Chiellini.
SAMPDORIA (4-4-2): Wladimiro Falcone;
Tommaso Augello, Giangiacomo Magnani, Andrea Conti, Bartosz Bereszynski;
Nicola Murru, Tomas Rincon, Kristoffer Askildsen, Morten Thorsby;
Ernesto Torregrossa, Francesco Caputo.
SUBS: Manolo Gabbiadini, Ivan Saio, Gerard Yepes, Nicola Ravaglia,
Radu Dragusin, Antonio Candreva, Alex Ferrari,
Ronaldo Vieira, Riccardo Ciervo, Simone Trimboli.
Goals:
1-0. Cuadrado lines up a free-kick right on the edge of the area. He strikes it low and hard, on the keeper’s side.
But, it falls through his grasp and into the bottom right corner. In truth, that should have been saved.
2-0. Juventus play a corner short, and Arthur delivers a perfect cross from deep into the six-yard box.
Above all, Rugani rises above everyone else to nod it into the far corner from close range.
2-1. Augello crosses from the right and Conti takes the ball down well with a great touch.
As a result, He strikes the ball cleanly past the keeper’s reach, in off the post into the far corner.
3-1. Sampdoria attempts to playout for the back, and it goes disastrously, Perin plays the ball straight to Locatelli.
Consequently, Dybala pinches the loose ball and sweeps it into the far corner from inside the area.
So, what’s next for Juventus and Sampdoria?
Juventus will be facing AC Milan, Meanwhile, Sampdoria will travel to Spezia.
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