Juventus were forced to again complete a comeback to snatch a point, as Parma were well worth their 2-2 draw in Turin, Enrico Delprato the hero at both ends of the pitch.
The Bianconeri fought back from 4-2 down for a 4-4 thriller with Inter at San Siro on Sunday, but Kenan Yildiz was left on the bench again despite his late brace, with Teun Koopmeiners not fully fit, Nico Gonzalez, Douglas Luiz, Arek Milik and Gleison Bremer injured. Fabio Pecchia’s Ducali had only one Serie A victory this season, 2-1 against Milan in August, and came into this off three consecutive stalemates. Alessandro Circati and Mateusz Kowalski are long-term absentees.
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Michele Di Gregorio had to stick out a boot to parry the Ange-Yoan Bonny low drive and Parma scored from the well-worked corner, Norbert Balogh nodding down the Adrian Bernabé cross for the head of Enrico Delprato.
The referee had awarded a penalty to Parma too on nine minutes, but Woyo Coulibaly had dragged the ball out of play before the Di Gregorio foul on Bonny.
Juve wasted an extraordinary opportunity to equalise, as Zion Suzuki parried the Weston McKennie header, only for Dusan Vlahovic to turn the rebound over from three yards.
Bonny was sliding in just a second too late to meet the Antoine Hainaut roll across from the right, but the Bianconeri managed to draw level with McKennie’s header on a Weah cross from the short corner.
Khephren Thuram fired over from a tricky angle moments later, while Balogh flicked a Bernabé free kick just wide.
Parma restored their advantage, as Dennis Man ran onto a flicked on long ball that caught Di Gregorio by surprise and pulled back for Simon Sohm to drill in relatively undisturbed.
Juventus equalised again after the restart, as Manuel Locatelli won it back in midfield, Thuram spread it to the right for Francisco Conceicao, whose cross was volleyed in from six yards by Weah.
Vlahovic nodded a Conceicao cross over and the Portuguese talent blasted off target from distance, while Suzuki fingertipped a Kenan Yildiz cross-shot round the post.
It was wide open in the closing stages between two exhausted and stretched out teams, as Di Gregorio rushed off his line to deny Gabriel Charpentier one-on-one when the offside trap failed.
Juventus had a series of corners late on and thought they’d won with the last kick of the game, as Suzuki fumbled a cross, but Kenan Yildiz saw his follow-up cleared off the line by Delprato.
Juventus 2-2 Parma
Delprato 3 (P), McKennie 31 (J), Sohm 39 (P), Weah 50 (J)
Player statistic
| 3' |  |
Enrico Del Prato (Assist: Botond Balogh) | ||
| Weston McKennie (Assist: Timothy Weah) |
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31' | ||
| 39' | |
Simon Sohm (Assist: Dennis Man) |
| Dusan Vlahovic |  |
47' | ||
| Timothy Weah (Assist: Francisco Conceição) |
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50' | ||
| Francisco Conceição | |
58' |
Match statistic
one win in ten. Parma only have themselves to blame. They play wonderful football but then also susceptible to some bad individual mistakes.
That Toyota in goal is not even Serie C level. constantly punching and flapping at simple crosses going into the box, and nearly cost them right at the end.
Del Prato with an exceptional performance. Had those two opportunities on the break been taken, it would’ve been a deserved pounding for the home team.