Serie A | Fiorentina 3-0 Juventus: Viola plunge Old Lady into crisis

Originally posted on Football Italia | By Susy Campanale | Last updated Mar 16, 2025 2:56 PM ET

Fiorentina crushed old rivals Juventus 3-0 to stay in the hunt for a top four finish, as Robin Gosens, Rolando Mandragora and Albert Gudmundsson poured more misery on Thiago Motta now in fifth place.

The Viola were in action on Thursday, beating Panathinaikos 3-1 to book their place in the Conference League quarter-final, with Andrea Colpani and Edoardo Bove still out, but Rolando Mandragora and Nicolò Zaniolo returned from suspension. Juve were shocked by a 4-0 home defeat to Atalanta, ending their run of five straight Serie A victories, with Douglas Luiz, Arek Milik, Gleison Bremer and Juan Cabal the only remaining absentees. Moise Kean, Nicolò Fagioli and Nico Gonzalez all faced their former club.

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There had been doubts over whether the game would go ahead following flooding in the Florence area. There was a minute’s silence before kick-off for Fiorentina director Joe Barone, who died a year ago.

The hosts opened the scoring from a set play, as Robin Gosens first saw his header from the Danilo Cataldi corner charged down by Renato Veiga, then thumped it on the volley from the rebound from 10 yards.

Juventus conceded another moments later, as Kean knocked down a long ball, Fagioli picked a smart pass through the centre as Mandragora kept his cool to place the left-foot angled drive across Michele Di Gregorio into the far bottom corner.

After the restart, Weston McKennie’s volley was charged down by Luca Ranieri in the six-yard box, but Juve struggled to make themselves at all dangerous.

Instead, Fiorentina went 3-0 up when Fagioli fed Gudmundsson in midfield, the Iceland international was allowed to run forward and hit a screamer through Renato Veiga’s legs into the near bottom corner from distance.

It was almost 4-0, but Kean was offside when he robbed Renato Veiga to go clear and deposit into the empty net.

Gosens was decisive at the other end too, his acrobatic clearance preventing anyone getting on the end of a Teun Koopmeiners cross in the six-yard box, while a weak Khephren Thuram effort straight at David De Gea was the toughest test for the veteran goalkeeper.

Andrea Cambiaso limped off with another ankle injury in the final minutes, but it’s a disaster for this Juve side that conceded seven goals in two games, dropping down to fifth place.

Fiorentina 3-0 Juventus

Gosens 15 (F), Mandragora 18 (F), Gudmundsson 53 (F)

16-03-2025 17:00 MatchDay 29 Artemio Franchi Stadium

Fiorentina

Juventus 3 - 0

Player statistic

1st half

Pablo Marí	13'
Robin Gosens	15'
Rolando Mandragora (Assist: Nicolò Fagioli)	18'
	45+1'	Manuel Locatelli

2nd half

Albert Gudmundsson (Assist: Nicolò Fagioli)

53' Luca Ranieri 73' 73' Timothy Weah 82'

Khéphren Thuram Fiorentina Juventus

Starting lineups

David de Gea Goalkeeper 2

Dodô Defender 6

Luca Ranieri Defender 78' 5

Marin Pongracic Defender

Pablo Marí Defender 32

Danilo Cataldi Midfielder 89'

Nicolò Fagioli Midfielder 85' 21

Robin Gosens Midfielder 8

Rolando Mandragora Midfielder 10

Albert Gudmundsson Attacker 79' 20

Moise Kean Attacker 89' 29 Michele Di Gregorio Goalkeeper

Lloyd Kelly Defender 74' 15 Pierre Kalulu Defender 19

Khéphren Thuram Midfielder 5

Manuel Locatelli Midfielder 12

Renato Veiga Midfielder 59' 8

Teun Koopmeiners Midfielder 16

Weston McKennie Midfielder 11

Nico González Attacker 59' 20

Randal Kolo Muani Attacker 22

Timothy Weah Attacker

74'

Substitutes

Pietro Terracciano Goalkeeper 65 Fabiano Parisi Defender 30 Tommaso Martinelli Goalkeeper Cher Ndour Midfielder 24 Amir Richardson Midfielder 22 Matías Moreno Defender 15 Pietro Comuzzo Defender 78' 9

Lucas Beltrán Attacker 79' 90 Michael Folorunsho Midfielder 85'

Nicolò Zaniolo Midfielder 89' 29

Yacine Adli Midfielder 89' 9

Dusan Vlahovic Attacker 23

Carlo Pinsoglio Goalkeeper 1

Mattia Perin Goalkeeper 10 Kenan Yıldız Attacker 40 Jonas Rouhi Defender 37 Nicolò Savona Defender 2 Alberto Costa Defender 59' 4 Federico Gatti Defender 74' 7 Francisco Conceição Attacker 74' 27 Andrea Cambiaso Defender 51

Samuel Mbangula Attacker

86'

This article first appeared on Football Italia and was syndicated with permission.

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