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Ronaldo scores twice as VAR helps Juventus to 2-1 win


Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates scoring their first goal
© REUTERS/Massimo PincaJuventus' Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates scoring their first goal
Juventus Cristiano Ronaldo, right, celebrates with teammate Paulo Dybala after scoring his side's opening goal during the Italian Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Sampdoria at Allianz stadium in Turin, Italy, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. (Alessandro De Marco/ANSA Via AP)© The Associated PressJuventus Cristiano Ronaldo, right, celebrates with teammate Paulo Dybala after scoring his side's opening goal during the Italian Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Sampdoria at Allianz stadium in Turin, Italy, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. (Alessandro De Marco/ANSA Via AP)
ROME — Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as runaway leader Juventus escaped with a 2-1 win over Sampdoria in Serie A on Saturday with help from the VAR.
Ronaldo's second goal, a penalty, was awarded by the VAR for a questionable handball. Then Sampdoria had a stoppage-time goal chalked off by the Video Assistant Referee.
Sampdoria thought it had become the first visiting Serie A club to score more than one goal at the Allianz Stadium in more than a year when Riccardo Saponara's shot went in off the underside of the crossbar, but replays showed the play was offside.
"I like (the VAR) a lot because it reduces the number of mistakes," Ronaldo said. "It's not easy for the match officials to analyze everything that goes on. We just have to let them get on with their jobs."
Ronaldo had put Juventus ahead two minutes in with a bouncing shot and Fabio Quagliarella equalized with a penalty before the break to become the first player to score in nine consecutive Serie A matches since David Trezeguet accomplished the feat with Juventus in 2005.
Ronaldo's decisive penalty came in the 65th after the VAR decided that Alex Ferrari had used his arm, even though it appeared as if the defender kept his arm next to his body and didn't move it toward the ball.
The double gave Ronaldo 14 goals in 19 matches this season to move one ahead of Genoa's Krzysztof Piatek atop the league scoring chart.
Ronaldo has maintained his form since leaving Real Madrid in the offseason, despite being the subject of a rape allegation in the United States.
Kathryn Mayorga filed a civil lawsuit in Nevada in September claiming Ronaldo raped her in his Las Vegas hotel room in 2009. Police reopened an investigation into the allegation at her request. Ronaldo has denied any wrongdoing.

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