Asamoah's Juventus thump Muntari's Pescara 2-0

Gonzalo Higuain bagged a brace to give Kwadwo Asamoah's Juventus a 2-0 victory away over Sulley Muntari's Pescara, extending their Serie A lead, but Paulo Dybala went off with an ankle injury.

Pescara were fired up, so within the opening three minutes Gaston Brugman had tested Neto and Sulley Muntari was booked for a crunching tackle on Dybala.

The deadlock was broken when Juan Cuadrado first forced a save from Vincenzo Fiorillo, then pulled the loose ball back for unmarked Gonzalo Higuain to tap in.

Higuain’s spectacular flick and volley was deflected on to the side-netting, but his other goal did arrive when Mario Mandzukic knocked down a Miralem Pjanic chipped pass for Higuain to slide in.

Muntari was perhaps fortunate not to receive another yellow card for taking down Dybala straight after the restart. That one left its mark, as La Joya then asked to be substituted with an ankle problem.

Ghana midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah played the entire duration for Juventus whiles Muntari played just 58 minutes before he was substituted by Ahmed Benali as a precautionary measure after the Ghanaian received the yellow card early in the game.