TURIN, ITALY — Como delivered one of the results of the Serie A season, silencing the Allianz Stadium with a composed and ruthless 2-0 victory over Juventus that moves the visitors to within four points of their fifth-placed hosts. Despite Juventus controlling large portions of the contest and finishing with seven corners to Como's two, Cesc Fàbregas's side showed precisely why they have become one of Italian football's most compelling stories this season — clinical, organised, and devastatingly effective on the counter-attack.
It was Como who struck first, and they did so with a directness that caught Juventus cold. In just the 11th minute, Mërgim Vojvoda latched onto a delivery from Tasos Douvikas and guided a composed left-footed finish from the right side of the box into the bottom right corner. The goal was against the run of early play, with Juventus having already tested Jean Butez twice in the opening exchanges. Kenan Yildiz had fired a right-footed effort from outside the box in the 5th minute, only for Butez to smother it comfortably, before Loïs Openda saw a well-struck attempt from the left side of the box pushed aside by the Belgian goalkeeper in the 22nd minute, with Lloyd Kelly's incisive through ball doing the hard work. Butez was sharp, alert, and increasingly central to Como's ambitions of holding their lead.
Juventus pressed for an equaliser throughout the first half and into the second, peppering the Como box with crosses and set pieces. Teun Koopmeiners came agonisingly close in the 65th minute, meeting a Kenan Yildiz cross from a corner with a header that drifted narrowly wide. Moments later, Yildiz himself dragged a left-footed effort past the post from the left side of the box. The Allianz Stadium grew increasingly anxious as chance after chance went begging, and the home side's frustration was evident when Manuel Locatelli was shown a yellow card in the 73rd minute for a reckless challenge — Juventus's only booking of the evening.
Como, meanwhile, were content to absorb the pressure and wait for their moment. It arrived in the 61st minute, and it was devastating in its simplicity. Lucas da Cunha burst forward on a rapid counter-attack and slid the ball into the path of Maxence Caqueret, who arrived at pace into the centre of the box and drove a composed right-footed finish into the bottom left corner. It was the kind of goal that encapsulates everything Como have become under Fàbregas — fast, purposeful, and utterly ruthless in transition. The Allianz Stadium fell silent.
Teun Koopmeiners did strike the right post from a direct free kick in the 84th minute, and Jonathan David headed narrowly wide from a Francisco Conceição cross moments later, but Juventus's profligacy in front of goal had already cost them dearly. Jean Butez finished the match having made three saves — all of them in the first half — while his Juventus counterpart Michele Di Gregorio was not called upon to make a single stop across the entire ninety minutes.
The statistics tell a story of a match Juventus dominated in every metric except the one that matters. The Old Lady held 52.1% of possession, matched Como's 11 shots, and forced seven corners to their visitors' two. Yet Como managed to put two of their 11 attempts on target and converted both — a ruthless efficiency that underlines just how dangerous this side can be when given space to run. Juventus, by contrast, registered three shots on target and found the net zero times. Koopmeiners hitting the woodwork in the dying minutes felt like a fitting metaphor for the hosts' evening.
Koopmeiners hitting the post aside, Juventus's attacking options struggled to find a way through a disciplined Como backline marshalled superbly by Marc Oliver Kempf. Weston McKennie worked hard in midfield without ever quite unlocking the visitors' shape, while Andrea Cambiaso and Francisco Conceição offered width but lacked the final product to trouble Butez consistently. The double substitution of Jérémie Boga and Jonathan David in the 74th minute injected urgency, but Como's defensive organisation — reinforced by the introductions of Diego Carlos and Ignace Van der Brempt — held firm.
Contrasting emotions flood through both camps as the week ahead comes into view. Juventus must dust themselves off before a trip to Galatasaray on February 25, while Como host Lecce on March 1, carrying the confidence of a result that announces their European credentials to the rest of Serie A.