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Juventus survive scare against Balotelli’s Brescia to take over as leaders

Juventus battled from a goal down to defeat Brescia 2-1 and move into top spot in Serie A.

Juve started the game two points behind Inter Milan and Wojciech Szczesny’s early mistake allowed Alfredo Donnarumma to open the scoring in just the fourth minute.

Brescia made a dream start when Donnarumma’s speculative shot from outside the box somehow found its way through Szczesny and into the back of the net.

Paulo Dybala came close to putting Juve ahead on the hour mark but Jesse Joronen made a fine save.

It was a good debut for the striker, who troubled Juve’s back line on numerous occasions and had other glimpses of an equaliser but the visitors held on.

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