Event | Supercoppa Italiana | ||||||
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Date | 20 January 2021 | ||||||
Venue | Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore, Reggio Emilia | ||||||
Man of the Match | Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) [1] | ||||||
Referee | Paolo Valeri [2] | ||||||
Attendance | 0 [note 1] | ||||||
The 2020 Supercoppa Italiana (branded as the PS5 Supercup for sponsorship reasons) [3] was the 33rd edition of the Supercoppa Italiana, the Italian football super cup. It was played on 20 January 2021 for the first time at the Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore, Reggio Emilia, between Juventus, the winners of the 2019–20 Serie A championship, and Napoli, the winners of the 2019–20 Coppa Italia. [4] The match was initially supposed to be held in December in Saudi Arabia like the previous year, but restrictions related to the global COVID-19 pandemic forced it to remain in Italy. [5]
Juventus won the match 2–0 and claimed their ninth Supercoppa Italiana title. [6] [7]
Juventus made its ninth consecutive Supercoppa Italiana appearance, and 16th overall. They had a 4–4 record during this run, and were 8–7 overall. Napoli took part in the competition for the fourth time, having already participated as Serie A champions once ( 1990) and as Coppa Italia winners twice ( 2012, 2014). Napoli won two of the previous three editions in which they played. [8] On all three occasions Juventus had been the opponent. The match was a rematch if the 2020 Coppa Italia final, in which Napoli defeated Juventus 4-2 on penalties.
Cristiano Ronaldo opened the scoring in the 64th minute when a corner from the left broke to him off the back of Napoli's Tiémoué Bakayoko, he finished to the net from six yards out. [9] Napoli was awarded a penalty kick in the 80th minute, but with a chance to tie the game at 1–1, Lorenzo Insigne missed the net, wide to the left. Álvaro Morata made it 2–0 in the 5th minute of added time with a low shot to the net from the right, after Juan Cuadrado ran into the penalty area and drew goalkeeper David Ospina before passing to him. [9]
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