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It wasnâ€t a classic but the chorus from the Santiago Bernabéu was. It had been a while and they had missed moments such as this – but for the first time since April Foolâ€s Day, Jude Bellingham stood before the south end with his arms wide, listening to them sing Hey Jude. There had been a shoulder injury, doubts about his role too, but now he had scored his first goal of the season, ultimately taking Real Madrid to a 1-0 win against a Juventus team that arenâ€t what they once were but who made a match of it. “We had to sweat for it,†Thibaut Courtois said.

He knew better than anyone, having to rescue a one‑on‑one from Dusan Vlahovic and make another decisive save from Khéphren Thuram in the very last minute to leave Madrid on nine points and Igor Tudorâ€s side below the cut in this league phase. At the end of a match with more shots than football, the Juventus manager may reflect on a decent start, those saves a great opportunity wasted on 85 minutes; their reality, though, makes worrying reading.

“An Italian team in trouble is twice as dangerous,†Xabi Alonso had said and Juventus, who had not won since September, did cause Madrid problems at the beginning and again at the end. Madrid dominated possession, 66%-34%, but Juventus threatened in transition, especially with Pierre Kalulu running and Vlahovic linking, and fired off 12 shots to go with 27 from the home side.

They had started well, certainly. After just three minutes they thought they were away, Vlahovic a little unfortunate to be penalised for pulling at Éder Militão. Three minutes later, Raúl Asencio had to slide ahead of Vlahovic when Kalulu dashed clear on the right. And three minutes after that, Weston McKennieâ€s shot was pushed past the post.

What followed, from Federico Gattiâ€s drive, was a more impressive stop. Fifteen minutes had gone. That said, soon the Italian sideâ€s momentum had too. Madrid took control. Mostly it was all a bit functional, though, and the three best opportunities came to Aurélien Tchouaméni, who would not be Alonsoâ€s striker of choice. Two were headed over, a third deflected wide; another headed opportunity was missed by Militão.

The best moments came from Arda Guler. The Turk, whose football was the nearest thing there was to fluidity, was always involved. His neat stop and turn saw him clip to the far post for Bellingham.

There was not much sign of Kylian Mbappé yet, but when he did appear it was the closest Madrid got to scoring. First his shot was stopped by Michele Di Gregorio, who would make eight saves. Then with some lovely fast footwork he turned Andrea Cambiaso twice until he tumbled to the turf and set up Militão to fire over.

Jude Bellingham tucks the ball home from close range for the only goal of the game in Real Madridâ€s victory over Juventus. Photograph: Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters

The Brazilian dived to stop Kalulu at the start of the second half, and then came the regulation Courtois rescue when suddenly Vlahovic was away. The “assist†had been quite something, Lloyd Kelly cutting out a pass inside his own area and the ball bouncing from the instep of his boot right through the middle to beyond the halfway line. Sprinting after it, huge space opening, Vlahovic raced Militão, holding him off and heading into the area where Courtois saved.

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Then what tends to happen happened, the save made good by the goal that follows it. A flash from Vinícius Júnior created it, working himself enough space amid four men to release a low, left-footed shot which hit the post. Lurking in that strikerâ€s role was Bellingham. The breakthrough found, Madrid should have finished it, Mbappé stopped by Di Gregorio and Fede Valverde seeing his volley blocked by Gatti. Then Di Gregorio made a brilliant double stop from Mbappé and Brahim Díaz.

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It was not the only one: as the game was slipping away, Raúl Asencio had to make a stunning sliding block as Madrid were opened up and at the mercy of Loïs Openda momentarily alone in the area. Then in the final seconds Courtois flew in to deny Thuram, his work done. For Juve, there was no way back, Bellinghamâ€s first of the season the last of the match and he said: “Itâ€s a great feeling, a long time now since Iâ€ve scored, a lot of time out and dreaming of that moment, back in the Champions League and against a big team. To score a winner, here at home, itâ€s unbelievable. I felt comfortable, really good. To play well was important and to score the winning goal helps the team a lot.â€

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The pre-game buzz had this as a showdown between two of world footballâ€s most intriguing young No 10s, Comoâ€s Nico Paz v Juventusâ€s Kenan Yildiz. A 21-year-old Argentina international whose dazzling debut campaign in Serie A persuaded Tottenham to make an unsuccessful €70m bid to buy him in the summer, taking on the 20-year-old trequartista with 25 appearances already for Turkeyâ€s national team.

Fabio Capello could not pick between them, ranking Paz and Yildiz alongside Romaâ€s Matías Soulé as the finest “fantasisti†– artistic playmakers – in Serie A today. The newspaper Il Giornale played on the players†shirt number and young age as they billed it as a battle “da ‘10†(e lode)â€. In the Italian academic system, a grade of 110 e lode (with honours) is the highest one can achieve.

Was it all a little manufactured? There is acute awareness in Italy about how Serie Aâ€s spending power has diminished, even its richest clubs no longer able to compete financially against European rivals with 2-3 times their annual income. The need to nurture and develop young talent has never been greater. It can be tempting, in that context, to get ahead of oneself any time a new prospect starts to emerge.

Still, these players were starting – and starring – for their teams. Yildiz had been Juventusâ€s most essential attacking player so far this season, with a goal and three assists in his first six league games, plus a further one of each in Europe. Capello noted how he was more two-footed than Paz. “The Argentinian [also] has more freedom of expression, Kenan has to deal with more pressure because of his clubâ€s context.â€

Francesco Totti offered a different perspective. Put on the spot with a question about young Italian talents during a promotional appearance for a betting company, the former Roma captain could not name even one he felt excited about. “Letâ€s say right now there arenâ€t many,†said Totti. “The only guy Iâ€m watching right now, who isnâ€t Italian, is Nico Paz. He intrigues me a lot.â€

How could he not? Paz opened this season with a spectacular free-kick goal against Lazio, and even that might not have been as memorable as the assist he made in the same game, spinning away from Nuno Tavares before releasing Tasos Douvikas with a through-ball that travelled half the length of the pitch without leaving the ground.

Few had even expected to see Paz return to Como this season. He joined from Real Madrid last summer, but the Spanish club hold a buy-back option that would have allowed them to sign him for just €9m. Pocket change, for a player named as Serie Aâ€s best Under-23 performer after bagging a combined 14 goals and assists in 2024-25. With Luka Modric departing, Madrid had space for fresh creative talent.

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They opted instead to prioritise the signing of the winger Franco Mastantuono, three years younger, from River Plate. With Arda Güler already primed for the No 10 role, Madrid could not guarantee Paz the playing opportunities he craved. Their buy-back option runs through to 2027, with only a gentle increase in price for each additional year they wait to exercise it, so it made sense to leave him at Como for this year.

Madrid are also entitled to half of any transfer fee should the player be sold to a different club instead. The fact Tottenhamâ€s bid was rejected may speak as much to Xabi Alonsoâ€s interest in eventually bringing Paz back to the Santiago Bernabéu as it does to Comoâ€s strong financial position, owned as they are by the billionaire Hartono brothers.

The knowledge Paz was staying put may also have helped dissuade Cesc Fàbregas from seeking out new pastures himself. The Como manager had plenty of suitors, from Inter to Bayer Leverkusen, after leading his club to a top-half finish on their return to Serie A.

He has even better tools at his disposal this time around. Como spent more than €140m on transfers over the summer, with headline signings including the teenage wingers Jesús Rodríguez and Jayden Addai from Real Betis and AZ Alkmaar, as well as Martin Baturina and Nicolas Kühn, who delivered standout European performances for Dinamo Zagreb and Celtic last season.

Still, though, Paz has been the star, sitting just behind a lone striker in Fàbregasâ€s 4-2-3-1. From there he drops readily to either side, showing a slight preference to drift right and cut in from there on to his stronger left foot. From that side he provided the assist for Comoâ€s opening goal against Juventus on Sunday.

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Cesc Fàbregas has found a star in Nico Paz at the heart of Comoâ€s 4-2-3-1. Photograph: Image Photo Agency/Getty Images

Moments after posing beside the pitch with his latest personal accolade, Serie Aâ€s Rising Star of The Month award for September, Paz trotted back over to take a corner. He played the ball short to Lucas da Cunha, who returned it to him with a backheel. Paz then swung a cross with his left boot towards the far post, where Marc Oliver Kempf arrived to force it home.

This was only the fourth minute, but already Paz was on the way to ensuring that his duel with Yildiz would be less a shootout than an execution. Juventusâ€s No 10 did his best, carrying the ball forward where he could and delivering more threat than his teammates, but Comoâ€s was a spectacle every time he touched the ball: teeing up Ãlvaro Morata here, running away from defenders there, dummying a touch one way only to execute a one-two with the heel of his weaker foot in-between.

Perhaps Totti was right. There are plenty of talented young players but even in elite football only a handful of special ones, and week by week Paz looks ever more like he belongs to the latter category. A terror in possession but also out of it, harassing opponents relentlessly with his 1.86 metres (6ft 1in) frame.

He sealed the points with a gorgeous 79th-minute winner. After receiving a pass from Máximo Perrone on the right flank close to halfway, he accelerated through the next 30 yards, jagged back inside Andrea Cambiaso and crashed the ball into the far corner. The thousand-yard stare on the Juventus full-backâ€s face said it all.

This was supposed to have been an opportunity for the Bianconeri to assert their title credentials. A win would have moved them level with Inter at the top, temporarily, ahead of Milanâ€s game on Sunday evening. Instead, Juventus were left to contemplate the prospect of a next match away to a Madrid team so overloaded with talent that it could consider a player like Paz – for this season at least – surplus to requirements.

Meanwhile, Como finished the weekend sixth in the Serie A table. Much of their success must be credited to Fàbregas, whose gathered his players on the pitch at full-time to share with them “only one word. Only one word. Iâ€m so fucking proud of you.â€

Still, it is hard to look past the contributions by Paz, who has either scored or assisted eight of Comoâ€s nine goals this season. “Heâ€s a champion,†said Fàbregas in a post-game interview. “Iâ€m very calm about him and his future. With this humility, and this hunger, he can go wherever he wants to go.â€

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Oct 15, 2025, 05:05 PM ET

Chelsea and Juventus are set to battle it out to sign Al Hilal midfielder Sergej Milinkovic-Savic on a free transfer, while Real Madrid are interested in signing Chelsea midfielder Moisés Caicedo, who has been offered a new contract. Join us for the latest transfer news and rumors from around the globe.

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– A race between Chelsea and Juventus could take place for Al Hilal midfielder Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, according to Corriere dello Sport. The 30-year-old is set to enter the final six months of his contract in January and, having not yet signed an extension, multiple clubs across Europe (including Galatasaray and Fenerbahce) are tracking him with a view to getting him to sign a pre-contract agreement. The Serbia international has made four appearances in the Saudi Pro League side so far this season.

– Chelsea plan to offer midfielder Moisés Caicedo a new contract to ward off interest from Real Madrid, according to TEAMtalk. Los Blancos are reported to be one of the sides keeping tabs on the 23-year-old but, following several impressive performances so far this season, it looks as though the Blues are set to reward him with improved terms to stay put at Stamford Bridge. And Caicedo’s long-term deal in West London isn’t set to expire until 2031 already.

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– Internazionale have joined the race for Crystal Palace defender Marc Guéhi, reports Tuttosport. Inter are reportedly monitoring the 25-year-old’s situation at Selhurst Park, with belief that he could be a strong replacement for Yann Bisseck, who could leave San Siro next summer. Guéhi remains on the radar of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich, but Liverpool are leading the race for him after a £35 million move broke down on the final day of the summer transfer window.

– Brighton will dismiss offers to sign midfielder Carlos Baleba in January amid interest from the Premier League. TalkSPORT reports that the Seagulls have no plans to part ways with the 21-year-old during the middle of the season, with hopes of dissuading interested sides by asking for a £120 million fee. Meanwhile, Manchester United are set to prioritize a move for Crystal Palace midfielder Adam Wharton, 21, according to iNews, having placed him as their No. 1 priority ahead of Baleba amid their search for a midfielder. Wharton has also recently been linked with Real Madrid.

– A move for Dinamo Zagreb winger Cardoso Varela is being considered by Barcelona and Chelsea, reports Mundo Deportivo. The Blaugranaare closely monitoring the 16-year-old, with club sporting director Deco having already met with his representatives. While the Blues are also interested in Varela, whether the LaLiga club make a move for him is expected to hinge on if they decide to sign on-loan Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford permanently.

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ESPN’s Madrid correspondent Alex Kirkland looks at the likelihood of Real Madrid landing Moisés Caicedo.

Real Madrid’s summer rebuild — signing three defenders in Trent Alexander-Arnold, Dean Huijsen and Alvaro Carreras, plus a wide forward in Franco Mastantuono — didn’t include a central midfielder, which for many fans and pundits, should have been top of the list.

So far this season, Xabi Alonso has tended to pick Aurelien Tchouameni, Fede Valverde and Arda Guler as his midfield three, with Jude Bellingham coming back into the picture after his recovery from shoulder surgery. The team have mostly played well, but in the two biggest games of Alonso’s tenure so far — the Club World Cup semifinal against PSG, and the derby against Atletico — they’ve come up short, and it’s hard to escape the feeling that, despite the qualities of Tchouameni, Valverde et al, they’re still missing a really dominant, tempo-setting midfielder.

Is Caicedo that player? A contract until 2031 is clearly an issue. Madrid only pay big transfer fees for the most elite prospects, like Bellingham, and that contract duration means a free transfer would be a distant prospect. Here in Madrid, there’s been no reporting yet that Caicedo is a serious target.

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– Barcelona are keeping tabs on Borussia Dortmund forward Serhou Guirassy and winger Karim Adeyemi. (Bild)

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– Bayern Munich winger Adin Licina is being watched by Juventus and Borussia Dortmund. (Tuttosport)

– Clubs in the Premier League could be interested in signing Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski, 37, if he becomes available as a free transfer. (Football Insider)

– Monaco will wait until the end of the season before deciding whether to activate the permanent option clause in the loan deal of Barcelona winger Ansu Fati. (Sport)

– Juventus could need Fenerbahce defender Milan Skriniar to accept a lower salary for a move to become possible, with the 30-year-old earning close to €10m-per-season. (Gazzetta dello Sport)

– Eintracht Frankfurt are open to parting ways with striker Elye Wahi, while they also hold interest in Newcastle forward Will Osula. (Florian Plettenberg)

– Bayern Munich midfielder Leon Goretzka wants to stay at the club, but they could still look to move him on. (Fabrizio Romano)

– Former Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaeris on the shortlist of Rangers as they continue their search for a head coach. (TEAMtalk)

– Premier League clubs Chelsea and Brighton are looking at Lazio defender Mario Gila. (Football Insider)

– Barcelona are planning to begin talks over a new contract with defender Eric Garcia. (Nicolo Schira)

– AS Roma and Juventus are monitoring the contract situation of Bologna midfielder Remo Freuler. (Nicolo Schira)

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Nearly four years after being diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, Daouda Peeters is back on the pitch with the USL’s Las Vegas Lights. Las Vegas Lights

In the summer of 2021, Daouda Peeters felt like he was operating near the pinnacle of soccer.

A holding midfielder by trade, he was on the books of Italian powerhouse Juventus, and had previously trained alongside the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo. That season, his teammates included club legend Giorgio Chiellini, eventual FIFA World Cup winner Paulo Dybala and American newcomer Weston McKennie.

Four months later, Peeters was looking at the possible end of his career, paralyzed from the waist down due to a rare neurological condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Peeters has since returned to the field, but the road back has been long and ongoing. He now plays in the USL Championship with the Las Vegas Lights, and he makes a point of letting his less experienced teammates know how fleeting a professional soccer career can be.

“The younger players, I say, ‘Boys, look: everything looks nice, but be really thankful and [enjoy] the maximum of your career because it can be finished like that,'” Peeters told ESPN.

His trouble began a few months into the 2021-22 season. In a bid for steady playing time, Peeters had been loaned to Belgian side Standard Liege. He was happy to be back in the country where he spent the bulk of his childhood. For the first two months of the season, all seemed well, but in late October, Peeters began feeling weakness in his legs. His stamina plummeted.

Peeters recalled running during practice and all of a sudden, he would fall down. The symptoms persisted when he was away from the field. He felt like there were electrical currents running through his legs.

“I wanted to go to the fridge to take something [out]. I fell down,” Peeters said. “So I knew there was something wrong. I was thinking at the beginning, ‘It’ll pass, there is nothing,’ but then on the pitch, it was getting always worse and worse and worse.”

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Standard’s chief medical officer, Dr. Bertrand Vanden Bulck, ordered tests, and the resulting diagnosis of GBS surprised him, with good reason. According to the Mayo Clinic, the incidence rate in the general population ranged between 0.4 and 3.25 cases per 100,000 people. Vanden Bulck said he had never seen a case of GBS before in 20 years working as a doctor in soccer.

“[GBS], it’s not the first disease we think of when the player complains about weakness in his leg,” said Vanden Bulck.

Dr. Michael Wilson, a neurologist and professor at UC-San Francisco, explained that Guillain-Barré is a disorder that attacks the covering around nerves, causing them to stop working properly.

“If you think about an electrical cord, and it has insulation around the wires,” said Wilson, “and so Guillain-Barré, there’s preferential attack on that insulation, but in most cases, the wires inside the insulation are intact.”

After the diagnosis, Peeters’ symptoms intensified. Within days of his last training session, he was in the hospital, paralyzed from the waist down and needing the use of a wheelchair.

“At the beginning, his family, the club, the trainer, everybody ask me, ‘Is it possible that Daouda will again play football?’ And nobody can answer this question,” Vanden Bulck said. “Guillain-Barré, it’s really difficult to make a good prognosis.”

Peeters said he was paralyzed for two months, his days filled with watching Netflix or reading books, but he could feel his body wasting away, his muscles atrophying.

Visa issues and an ankle injury have limited Daouda Peeters to eight appearances with Las Vegas in 2025. Las Vegas Lights

Rehab came in stages. There was electrical stimulation to get the nerves firing properly again as well as to activate his muscles. That was followed by plenty of core work to help stabilize his body, then coordination drills to help the muscles work together.

“In the beginning I had one part work and other part didn’t work, so I had to find the connection between all my muscles,” Peeters said.

The following winter, Peeters returned to Juventus to continue his rehabilitation, but there were still mountains to climb. It wasn’t enough that he was strong enough to play. Peeters needed to regain his soccer sense — the speed of the ball, where he needed to be on the field and when. There was stamina to build up again, too. When he first started playing practice games again at the end of the 2022-23 season, he found after playing for 60 minutes that he would lose sensation in his feet.

In a bid to regain his old level, Peeters was loaned to Sudtirol in Italy’s Serie B for the 2023-24 season. On Oct. 21, 2023 — nearly two years to the day that he was first sidelined — he suited up in his first official game against Cremonese, playing 78 minutes in a 1-0 win. He went on to make 19 league appearances.

“It was really special,” he recalled about that day. “I was like laughing, but really with relief. I was really happy to be back, a football player, to be an athlete, to be back with the team, to be back in the changing room, to be back on the pitch, and all this sensation, the adrenaline, it was something I missed a lot of times.”

But recovering the last 5% to 10% of his previous level proved to be the hardest. The start of the 2024-25 campaign saw him playing for Juventus NextGen, the club’s reserve side. Peeters felt stuck. By January 2025, he needed a change.

Las Vegas sporting director Gian Neglia first spotted Peeters during his stint as assistant sporting director at Venezia and when the player was with Sudtirol. When it came time to put together a list of possible targets for the Lights in 2025, Peeters’ name came up.

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“In Italy, [Peeters] was very much this guy that had ‘that disease,’ which is unfair, but sometimes that sticks,” said Neglia. “And so I think he was looking for that fresh start coming to America, and we were obviously very enthusiastic about getting him.”

Some European teams inquired about Peeters’ availability, but Juventus NextGen sporting director Claudio Chiellini encouraged him to look to the U.S. given the positive experience that his brother Giorgio had with LAFC. Peeters spoke with his family, as well as former teammate and current Las Vegas midfielder Younes Boudadi, who he knew from his younger days at Club Brugge’s academy.

“Boudadi said only positive words,” said Peeters. “So I was like, ‘OK, I’m going to take this step.'”

His campaign has been stop-start. Issues with his visa and a nagging ankle injury have limited him to eight league appearances, but Neglia has been impressed with what the 26-year-old has provided, especially his long-range passing and ability to work out of tight spaces. With the player under contract for next season, Neglia is eager to see what progress he can make.

The move to Vegas has provided Peeters with a different perspective on the game. And life. For so much of his young career, Peeters was on an upward trajectory that seemed never-ending, only to get sidetracked through no fault of his own.

He knows full well that his current port of call lacks the glamor attached to playing for a massive club like Juventus. He noted playing in the U.S. is “another mindset, another world,” but he’s still able to appreciate the successes, like recovering to the point that he’s playing professional soccer again. Not every victory has a fairytale-like quality to it. Some of the biggest ones — walking again, training again — happen away from the spotlight of adoring crowds and big matches. Some wins happen in solitary moments, along paths he didn’t expect.

“There are other opportunities,” he said. “I was already happy that I could walk again, that I could play football again. Even today, OK, maybe I’m far away from my family, but at the end it’s a great experience for me to be now in America. Also another country, another culture, and I’m feeling healthy also. So that’s really important.”

For Peeters, there are still goals to set and attain. He’ll get there going step by step.

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Christian Pulisic had been making all the right moves for AC Milan this season.

Until Sunday.

A missed penalty kick by the American standout proved costly as Milan was held to a 0-0 draw at Juventus in Serie A to end a five-match winning streak for the revamped Rossoneri.

The United States men’s national team captain leads Milan with six goals scored this season – plus two assists – but his attempt from the spot early in the second half soared high over the bar.

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“Pulisic missed the penalty but he had an extraordinary game,” Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri said. “He has always been the penalty kick taker. You don’t change it for a mistake.”

It was only the second time in Pulisic’s professional career that he failed to convert a penalty, after Torino goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic blocked his effort last season. His record is now 13 converted and two missed for club and country.

Milan dropped from first to third place, two points behind defending champion Napoli and Roma – which each won earlier.

Napoli came back from a goal down to beat Genoa 2-1 and Roma also rallied for a 2-1 victory at winless Fiorentina.

Juventus was left a point further back in fifth entering the international break.

Pulisic’s United States teammate Weston McKennie wasted a few chances early on for Juventus.

Otherwise there were few other opportunities for both sides as Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri returned to face the club he coached in two different spells and led to five Italian league titles.

USMNT star Christian Pulisic missed a crucial penalty as AC Milan were held 0-0 by Juventus in Turin. Fabio Ferrari/LaPresse via AP

Allegri was fired by Juventus for an ugly outburst directed at the referees during the 2024 Italian Cup final.

“We’ll always be proud of you, thanks for everything Max Allegri,” read a banner held aloft by Juventus fans.

The penalty was awarded when Santiago Gimenez was tugged down from behind by Lloyd Kelly as he attempted to meet a vertical pass from Luka Modric.

Milan nearly won it in the 90th with a through ball from Modric to Rafael Leão but the Portugal winger’s shot was stopped by Juventus goalkeeper Michele Di Gregorio.

Earlier, Leão attempted a shot from near midfield when he saw Di Gregorio venture away from his goal but that effort missed the target.

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The 2025/26 season may have only just kicked off, but Juventus are seemingly already looking a year ahead – at least when it comes to fashion.

According to long-running kit insiders La Maglia Bianconera, the club already has a clear vision of what their home, away, and third kits will look like for the 2026/27 campaign.

The home shirt, made by adidas, is said to take inspiration from the 1976/77 design, featuring classic black and white stripes with the potential addition of gold trim and logos for a touch of luxury.

The away kit will go pink, paying homage to Juveâ€s earliest colours, and will reportedly include both the retro adidas Trefoil logo and a stylised zebra crest – a bold nod to the clubâ€s roots.

💥 Esclusiva! Prime info #Home #Juve 26/27 e mockup di prova.
Ispirata alla maglia 1976/77, omaggio al 1° trionfo europeo! Ipotizzati quindi numero strisce e colletto attinenti, MA, come altri dettagli, non sono verificati! Loghi e inserti in oro. #JuJersey
âž¡ï¸ Post completo su IG pic.twitter.com/jSKthv3qEb

— La Maglia Bianconera (@La_Bianconera) August 20, 2025

💥 Esclusiva! Prime info #Third #Juve 26/27: mockup colore e studio primi indizi.
Ispirata alla “gioventù” (nomen omen).
Colore base: nero. Secondari: da appurare, ma probabili oro e grigio. Possibile texture. Tanti i dettagli ancora da definire. #JuJersey
âž¡ï¸ Post completo su IG pic.twitter.com/FNXTaBGhDp

— La Maglia Bianconera (@La_Bianconera) August 20, 2025

As for the third option, Juventus are expected to go with a predominantly black design, detailed with shades of gold and grey. According to the leaks, this concept is tied to a theme of “youth†and carries a more modern, edgy aesthetic.

La Maglia Bianconera also shared early design mock-ups, giving fans a glimpse of whatâ€s to come – though itâ€s worth remembering that final versions could still change before release.

The leaks arrive shortly after Juventus†third kit for the current season also surfaced online.

Footy Headlines share that the shirt will be almost entirely black with vanilla logos, green collars and cuffs trimmed with dark purple, and a vine-leaf pattern across the front – reportedly inspired by Piedmontâ€s famous vineyards.

â—ï¸Reportedly Juventusâ€s third kit for 2025/26 season. pic.twitter.com/oH3qIiwkDs

— Forza Juventus (@ForzaJuveEN) July 4, 2025

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