Made in America: Weston McKennie and Tim Weah protect Juventus' unbeaten record

United States internationals Weston McKennie and Tim Weah salvaged Juventus’ unbeaten commencement to nan season

MILAN -- United States internationals Weston McKennie and Tim Weah salvaged Juventus’ unbeaten commencement to nan season.

The duo scored connected Wednesday to thief Juventus tie 2-2 astatine Parma. Enrico Delprato and Simon Solomon Sohm had doubly fixed Parma nan lead.

Juventus — which is nan only unbeaten squad successful Serie A — slipped to fourth, 7 points down Serie A leader Napoli and was leapfrogged by Atalanta, which hit Monza 2-0.

Inter Milan, 4 points down Napoli, remained 2nd aft it won 3-0 astatine 10-man Empoli.

Parma was languishing successful nan relegation area coming into nan lucifer but had only mislaid 1 of its past 5 matches. And it took nan lead pinch little than 3 minutes erstwhile Delprato headed into nan apical corner.

McKennie leveled matters successful nan 31st erstwhile a area was taken short and Weah whipped successful a transverse from nan correct for his compatriot to caput successful astatine nan acold post.

Sohm fired Parma backmost successful beforehand conscionable 7 minutes later but Weah sewage connected nan scoresheet himself soon aft nan interval erstwhile he volleyed successful a transverse from Francisco Conceição.

Davide Frattesi was fixed a uncommon commencement and responded pinch his first-ever double — and against his erstwhile club.

Both sides had early chances but nan lucifer turned successful nan 31st minute. Empoli defender Saba Goglichidze was primitively shown only a yellowish paper for a precocious and vulnerable tackle connected Marcus Thuram but nan referee changed it to reddish aft being told to look astatine it again connected nan pitchside monitor.

Inter collapsed nan deadlock 5 minutes aft nan break. Darmian headed an Alessandro Bastoni transverse to Frattesi from nan byline and he coiled it into nan apical acold corner.

Frattesi, who spent a play connected indebtedness astatine Empoli 5 years ago, doubled his tally successful nan 67th arsenic Lautaro Martínez touched a Nicolò Barella through-ball backmost to him and he slotted into nan bottommost near corner.

Lautaro sewage connected nan scoresheet himself successful nan 79th aft being group up by Barella. It was nan Argentina forward’s 134th extremity for Inter, making him nan highest-scoring foreigner to play for nan club.

Venezia fought backmost from 2 goals down to hit 10-man Udinese 3-2 and move disconnected nan bottom.

Joel Pohjanpalo converted a punishment 4 minutes from clip to manus Venezia only its 2nd triumph of nan season. He had won and scored different spotkick astatine nan extremity of nan first half to get Venezia backmost into nan lucifer aft Udinese had taken a 2-0 lead.

Udinese defender Isaak Touré was shown a consecutive reddish paper 8 minutes aft nan break for bringing down Gaetano Pio Oristanio arsenic he was base down connected extremity and Hans Nicolussi Caviglia leveled from nan resulting free kick.

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