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Juventus' Cup trip to Fiorentina mared by fans turbulence
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-12-02 14:34
Juventus' Italian Cup tie away to Fiorentina has been mared by fans
turbulence outside the ground as the League leaders came back from 2-0 down to
draw 2-2.
Juventus' fans
celebrate the victory of their team in an Italian Serie A League game in
May 2005. Fiorentina and Juventus players were forced off the pitch at the
start of the second half of their Italian Cup tie here after police fired
tear gas to disperse groups of rival supporters. [AFP] |
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Tear gas was fired by police outside the Stadio Franchi in Florence following
violent clashes between fans and police, two minutes into the second half of the
Fiorentina-Juventus match.
When the incident began, spectators left the stands and referee Luca Palanca
stopped the game and sent the players back to the dressing rooms. Play resumed
20 minutes later.
The fourth-round first-leg tie in Italian Cup saw both side without some
regular first-team players. Fiorentina left Serie A top scorer Luca Toni on the
bench while Juventus rested first-choice strike partnership of David Trezeguet
and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Fiorentina's Valeri Bojinov opened the scoring for the home side in the 38th
minute, bringing down Tomas Ujfalusi's cross and volleying crisply past keeper
Gianluigi Buffon who was playing his first game after a three-month injury
layoff.
Striker Giampaolo Pazzini doubled the home side's lead in the 50th minute,
catching Juve's defence cold to beat the offside trap and slip the ball in at
Buffon's near post.
Juve replied three minutes later when midfielder Patrick Vieira teed up an
inviting ball on the edge of the area that Gianluca Pessotto thumped past keeper
Sebastian Frey.
The visitors equalised in the 69th minute when an Adrian Mutu cross curled
over the top of Frey and bounced in off the far post.
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