Juventus 3-1 Sassuolo: Cristiano Ronaldo draws level as joint-top scorer in football history

Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 22nd goal for club and country this season as Juventus moved up to fourth after leaving it late to defeat plucky Sassuolo. 

The visitors, who have been one of European football’s surprise packages this season, were reduced to 10 men in first-half stoppage time when former West Ham midfielder Pedro Obiang scythed down Federico Chiesa.

Danilo then put Andrea Pirlo’s men ahead five minutes after the restart, hammering a 30-yard thunderbolt into the bottom right-hand corner of Andrea Consigli’s goal, with the flying Italian nowhere near it. 

Cristiano Ronaldo’s 92nd-minute goal wrapped things up for the hosts at the Allianz Stadium

Ex-West Ham midfielder Pedro Obiang was dismissed for an ugly challenge on Federico Chiesa

Danilo’s rasping drive from about 30 yards out put Juventus ahead five minutes after the break

Gregoire Defrel wheels away from a despairing Leonardo Bonucci after scoring the equaliser

Chiesa had a chance to get Andrea Pirlo’s men back in front in the second half – but hit a post

Aaron Ramsey made it 2-1 after converting Gianluca Frabotta’s cross before Ronaldo’s strike

The hosts couldn’t press home their one-man advantage though and were pegged back eight minutes later, when Gregoire Defrel pushed Hamed Traore’s pass between Juve centre backs Merih Demiral and Leonardo Bonucci with his left foot, before producing a sliding right-foot finish to beat the sprawling Wojciech Szczesny. 

Roberto De Zerbi’s men looked like upsetting the applecart once again this term and rode their luck when Chiesa struck a post, but Aaron Ramsey came to his side’s rescue, turning in Gianluca Frabotta’s cross to move his team within a point of third-placed Roma having played a game fewer than Paulo Fonseca’s men. 

Ronaldo then put the icing on the cake in stoppage time, calmly controlling a long ball over the top by Danilo before charging into the penalty area and slotting past Consigli.