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Milan – Teenage feeling Moses Kean scored the winner to put Juventus just two paces from an eighth consecutive title in Serie A on Saturday, after a 2-1 victory over AC Milan, the champions lost 21 points.
Kean – a victim of racist abuse earlier this week in Cagliari – replaced the winner and shot the winner after 84 minutes to score his fifth goal in as many league games.
The Turin giants will seal a 35th Scudetto Sunday with seven games to play – the earlier one team has won the Serie A – if Napoli, in second place, loses at home against Genoa.
Juventus played without injured striker Cristiano Ronaldo, who was recovering from a thigh injury, as he was preparing for his first leg in the Champions League quarter-final against the 39; Ajax.
But Kean, 19, has reinforced her presence in the absence of the Portuguese superstar who is struggling to be ready for Wednesday's match in Amsterdam.
"Even today, Kean scored and he's very good," said Allegri, of the young player who also scored twice in the two Euro 2020 qualifying matches for Italy. .
"He's a young man who's fine, but let him calm down.
"Will he play Wednesday (against Ajax)? We'll see, substitutes are important as we saw him today."
Krzysztof Piatek had given his 21st goal of the season in advance to AC Milan five minutes before the break. Paulo Dybala pulled the best on the hosts.
For Milan, this defeat further damages their ambitions in the Champions League with only one point in their last four Serie A matches.
Gennaro Gattuso's men are fourth, but may be overtaken by Atalanta, who is one point behind and will travel to Inter Milan, third, on Sunday.
Roma, also aiming for a place in the Champions League, regained the victory with captain Daniele De Rossi scoring the only goal against Sampdoria. She is sixth on points tie with Atalanta.
"We still have a chance to qualify for the Champions League if we beat Lazio next Saturday," said Gattuso, who is aiming for his first UEFA Champions League campaign since 2013-14.
The visitors had gone out shooting.
After two minutes, Piatek missed his chance and found himself in the center of Suso's center. Franck Kessie was also out of place early.
Sami Khedira came into play for the first time since a cardiac surgery a month ago, replacing his German compatriot Emre Can, who left early with a sprained ankle.
Milan was denied a penalty when Alex Sandro handled the Hakan Calhanoglu center. The referee decided that it was unintentional after a VAR exam.
A few minutes later, Piatek beat his Polish compatriot Wojciech Szczesny following a foul by former Milan defender Leonardo Bonucci, who had been widely criticized for his comments on the racist violence that Kean had been a victim of in Cagliari.
Tiemoue Bakayoko jumped on a missed pbad to allow Piatek to score.
Mario Mandzukic had almost equalized before the break, but Pepe Reina, all along, let slip the acrobatic efforts of the Croatian.
An imprudent mistake by Mateo Musacchio on his Argentine compatriot, Dybala, allowed the hosts to put things right.
Kean replaced Dybala and 20 minutes later, Bonucci stood in front of the winner while the striker whom he had blamed for partly inciting a series of racist abuse in Sardinia.
In Genoa, De Rossi has offered new coach Claudio Ranieri just his second victory in five games since coming to power.
The captain forced the ball 75 minutes after the rescue of Patrik Schick's head.
Torino left the Europa League spots with a 0-0 draw in Parma, while Lazio, with one match in hand, is looking to stay in the Champions League home race against Sbaduolo on Sunday.
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