Friendlies: Atalanta-Juventus draw, Roma victory

Juventus and Atalanta performed out a goalless draw, whereas Fiorentina had been held by OFI Crete and Stephan El Shaarawy scored an awesome aim as Roma beat Partizani Tirana.

The Serie A season kicks off subsequent weekend, so these had been a number of the remaining pleasant matches of the summer time.

Atalanta and Juve confronted off on impartial turf in Cesena and Timothy Weah impressed with some robust runs down the wing, inflicting all types of issues for Mitchel Bakker.

New signings Gianluca Scamacca and El Bilal Toure got here on for the second half and wasted some good scoring alternatives.

Fiorentina had been held to a 1-1 draw on the Stadio Franchi by OFI Crete, though extra focus was on the stands the place Lucas Beltran was seated.

The River Plate striker had his medical assessments as we speak and can signal the contract tomorrow for a switch value €25m together with add-ons.

Aleksandr Kokorin was surprisingly within the beginning XI and scored the opening aim, whereas M’Bala Nzola additionally threatened so as to add one other on his debut.

As is so usually the case with the Viola, they didn’t make the probabilities depend and had been caught late on.

Roma performed a 2-1 win away to Partizani Tirana with objectives from Andrea Belotti and El Shaarawy, the Little Pharaoh beating the goalkeeper with a cheeky acrobatic chip.