The former France under-21 global could once again play apart when his new side travel to the Stadio San Paolo on Saturday to take on Napoli and his agent Yvan Le Mee claims the youngster turned down an offer of more money from Maurizio Sarri’s side in order to move to Turin.
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Juventus’ miserable start to the Serie A season continued as it lost 2-1 at Napoli, while Roma reignited its league campaign with a 5-1 drubbing of newly-promoted Carpi on Saturday.
Last weekend they beat Genoa 2-1 away from home, and that came after they beat Manchester City, in the Champions League.
Goals from Lorenzo Insigne and Gonzalo Higuain sent Napoli to their win, and they held on despite Mario Lemina pulling one back for Juve.
Four minutes later, Miralem Pjanic doubled the lead with a well-taken free kick, and Gervinho added a third on 31 minutes when a powerful strike from Maicon was parried right into his path.
Marco Borriello scored against his old club for Carpi to make it 3-1 in the 34th minute.
Garcia, however, could be made to sweat on the fitness of Francesco Totti, Seydou Keita and Edin Dzeko after all three were forced off with suspected knocks.
Napoli have no injury worries, though Juventus will be without midfielders Sami Khedira and Claudio Marchisio, and striker Mario Mandžukić; meanwhile wing-backs Kwadwo Asamoah and Stephan Lichtsteiner are both likely to miss out. Hernanes gave the ball away just inside his own half, passing straight to Higuain and the Argentina forward went on a mazy run downfield before firing across Gianluigi Buffon, who got a hand to it but the finish was too powerful.
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“Napoli and Juventus this year are teams that are going from game to game with mixed results”. Juventus were immediately back in the game as Lemina stabbed Perreya’s cross home in the 63 minute.
