Juventus fell behind to a perfectly placed long range strike from Radja Nainggolan but Cristiano Ronaldo’s 600th career club goal put Juve on the scoreboard and forced a 1-1 draw.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 600th career club goal to bag Juve, Serie A champions a 1-1 draw in their Derby d’Italia match against Inter Milan at San Siro on Saturday.
Ronaldo, the Portuguese superstar hit the record in the 62nd minute of the game, saving his side after they fell behind to Radja Nainggolan’s stunning early strike.
Wojciech Szczesny could actually have done more to keep out Nainggolan’s first-half effort, which put Inter on course for a win that would have boosted their top-three hopes.
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Juventus were rattled by Inter’s rapid start to the match, conceding just seven minutes into the game when Nainggolan thumped a scooped pass from Matteo Politano into the back of the net from 25 yards.
Szczesny failed in his attempt to keep out the strike despite getting an arm to it, but he had an incredible response by denying Mauro Icardi and Stefan de Vrij in the space of 20 seconds, the latter wasting a free header from just six yards out.
Juventus, whose only on target shot in the first 45 minutes of the game came from a Leonardo Bonucci drive in the opening minute, would have conceded more at the break had Blaise Matuidi not made a vital block to prevent Icardi firing home.
The visitors, Juventus hit back just after 60 minutes of play as Ronaldo picked out the bottom-right corner with a sharp drive after being teed up by a Miralem Pjanic backheel.
Ivan Perisic and Joao Mario (s) had shots saved in the final 10 minutes of play but neither team – Pjanic was kept out for Juve beforehand – found the back of the net till the conclusion of the match.