Juventus 3-1 Sassuolo: result and report

Serie A · Saturday 10 September 2016

Result

Juventus 3-1 Sassuolo

Serie A · Saturday 10 September 2016, 16:00 UTC · half-time 3-1

Juventus · Sassuolo · Serie A predictions

Juventus 3-1 Sassuolo: match report

Juventus beat Sassuolo 3-1 in Serie A on Saturday 10 September 2016. The half-time score was 3-1.

Gonzalo Higuaín opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Juventus's goals came from Gonzalo Higuaín (4'), Gonzalo Higuaín (10') and Miralem Pjanic (27'). Sassuolo scored through Luca Antei (33').

Discipline: Juventus received 1 yellow card; Sassuolo received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Juventus were 2nd on 6 points from 2 and Sassuolo 4th on 6 points from 2. Juventus went on to finish that season 1st with 91 points, and Sassuolo 10th with 49.

Juventus lined up in a 3-5-2 and Sassuolo in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Gonzalo Higuaín of Juventus (8.7), ahead of Paulo Dybala (8.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Juventus wins, 1 draw and 1 for Sassuolo.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · Gonzalo HiguaínJuventus · 1-0
  • 10'Goal · Gonzalo HiguaínJuventus · 2-0
  • 27'Goal · Miralem PjanicJuventus · 3-0
  • 33'Goal · Luca AnteiSassuolo · 3-1
  • 82'Yellow card · Marcello GazzolaSassuolo
  • 85'Yellow card · Medhi BenatiaJuventus
  • 90+7'Yellow card · Federico RicciSassuolo

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Juventus 4, draws 1, Sassuolo 1.

Team news

Juventus line-up (3-5-2)

Gianluigi Buffon, Giorgio Chiellini, Medhi Benatia, Leonardo Bonucci, Miralem Pjanić, Sami Khedira, Alex Sandro, Mario Lemina, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Gonzalo Higuaín, Paulo Dybala

Sassuolo line-up (4-3-3)

Andrea Consigli, Luca Antei, Federico Peluso, Francesco Acerbi, Marcello Gazzola, Francesco Magnanelli, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Alfred Duncan, Alessandro Matri, Matteo Politano, Antonino Ragusa