Sassuolo 3-2 Juventus: Vasilije Adzic wins it with the last kick of the game

Juventus led for none of this game and still nearly stole a point from it, which tells you how it swung. Sebastiano Esposito put Sassuolo ahead in the second half, Edon Zhegrova equalised twice in the space of nine minutes, and then Kieron Bowie and Vasilije Adzic scored either side of Zhegrova's second to leave the Mapei Stadium with five goals inside the final 20 minutes and Juventus's unbeaten start to the season gone.

Goal timeline

Zhegrova's second goal, deep into stoppage time, looked for a moment like it had rescued a point Juventus barely deserved on the balance of play — only for Adzic to curl a right-footed finish into the far corner with the very last kick of the match. It was Zhegrova's first goal in an official match since November 2024, which made the whipsaw of feeling even sharper for Juventus: a player returning from a long lay-off dragging them level twice, undone in the same passage of the game he had rescued.

Stats

The numbers make it look like a Juventus performance that deserved more: more of the ball, nearly twice as many shots, and almost three times as many corners. But Sassuolo were more clinical when it mattered and had the stronger finish, scoring three times to Juventus's two despite the shot count running the other way.

Where it leaves both sides

Before this round, Guriball's table had Juventus 5th with seven points from three matches — unbeaten, level with AC Milan — and Sassuolo 10th on four points from three. The result flips that: Sassuolo move to seven points and Juventus stay on seven too, their run of two wins and a draw broken by a defeat that came from a lead they never actually had. It is a first Serie A loss of the season for Igor Tudor's successors in Turin, and the biggest result of Sassuolo's season so far — their first win over a club from Serie A's traditional top bracket.

Match facts

• 54' — Sebastiano Esposito (Sassuolo), assisted by Nemanja Matic
• 82' — Edon Zhegrova (Juventus), assisted by Randal Kolo Muani
• 89' — Kieron Bowie (Sassuolo), assisted by Darryl Bakola
• 91' — Edon Zhegrova (Juventus)
• 94' — Vasilije Adzic (Sassuolo), assisted by Armand Lauriente

What's next

Sassuolo take a signature win into the international break, having now beaten a big name after an up-and-down opening month. Juventus, who go into the break with their first defeat of the campaign, will have two weeks to work out how a game their underlying numbers say they controlled ended in a loss.