CRISTIANO RONALDO reached an impressive 750 profession targets as Juve’s 3-0 cruise was marked by Stephanie Frappart turning into the primary feminine Champions League referee.
And in reality one of many few points on a mostly-comfortable night time for Frenchwoman Frappart was when VAR made Ronaldo wait a number of seconds earlier than confirming his newest landmark strike.
Cristiano Ronaldo tucks residence his 132nd Champions League objective and the 750th strike of his profession in all competitions in a 3-0 winCredit score: EPA
Stephanie Frappart ignored Kiev shouts for a penalty and noticed Ronaldo’s objective solely allowed on VAR however typically had few contentious points Credit score: Getty Photographs – Getty
Juve’s three scorers rejoice as Federico Chiesa, Alvaro Morata and Cristiano Ronaldo noticed off the UkrainiansCredit score: Getty Photographs – Getty
Juventus had already sailed into the KO phases and this dispatching of Dynamo Kiev certainly will not cease Barcelona successful the group.
Italy winger Federico Chiesa nodded his first objective on mortgage from Fiorentina, whereas Alvaro Morata rounded off Juve’s triumph along with his sixth Champions League objective this season.
And it was nearly as straightforward a night night time for Frappart because it was for Juve.
Supervisor Andrea Pirlo solely pockets £1.6million-per-year after taking cost of the membership
The 36-year-old has been hotly tipped to be the trailblazer for ladies to lastly break into Europe’s high membership competitors for males’s soccer since 2011.
That was when she took cost of video games within the males’s French third division.
Since then Frappart reffed the Ladies’s World Cup ultimate in 2019, when she additionally grew to become the primary lady to supervise a Ligue 1 match.
She took charge of Liverpools 5-4 defeat of Chelsea on penalties in the 2019 Uefa Super Cup.
And her first Europa League tie was Leicester towards Zorya Luhansk in October.
Chiesa nodded residence Alex Sandro’s cross on 21 minutes as Frappart reffed her greatest recreation thus far.
PENALTY APPEAL
Kiev did have penalty appeals ignored when Leonardo Bonucci had his arms round Slovenia wideman Benjamin Verbic.
And Juve’s former Arsenal keeper Wojciech Szczesny twice brilliantly foiled Viktor Tsygankov.
However Ronaldo pounced for the second on 57 minutes, nudging residence after Georgi Bushchan’s tried block deflected off Morata.
That was the Real Madrid and Manchester United legend’s 132nd Champions League objective,- 14 greater than second-placed Lionel Messi in a distinguished scoring desk
And ex-Chelsea frontman Morata, shining on mortgage from Atletico Madrid, snapped up one other easy objective 9 minutes later.
Weston McKennie and Chiesa mixed nicely on the proper for Morata to spice up his probabilities of a everlasting return to Juve.
