{"id":566833,"date":"2020-09-22T17:56:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T21:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=566833"},"modified":"2020-09-22T17:56:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T21:56:56","slug":"alvaro-morata-completes-juventus-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/22\/alvaro-morata-completes-juventus-move\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c1lvaro Morata Completes Juventus Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/129af0db\/Alvaro-Morata\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00c1lvaro Morata<\/a> has officially completed a move back Juventus. The Spanish striker joins on an initial one-year loan deal with the option for an extra year, plus the option to buy. The move marks yet another transfer to a top European club for Morata, who has had a previous spell at the club.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/dea698d9\/Cristiano-Ronaldo\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a> to play alongside, too, Morata should excel once in the famous colours of Juventus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Morata Completes Juventus Move<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Leaving Atletico Madrid Having Made a Mark<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">For some time, \u00c1lvaro Morata failed to find his best form at Atletico Madrid. But, when asked to deliver on the biggest of stages, he did. The Spaniard&#8217;s finest moment came at Anfield in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/category\/champions-league\/\" target=\"_self\">Champions League<\/a>\u00a0round of 16 second leg.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It was his goal which proved to be the cherry on top of a classic Atletico Madrid performance as they shocked Liverpool to send them packing. The moment will forever remain an iconic one in his so far dream-like career.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The task will no be to lead Juventus to yet another Serie A title under the new guidance of legendary midfielder turned manager Andre Pirlo.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A Return to Juventus<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the 2014\/15 season and the 2015\/16 season, Morata was crucial while on loan in Juventus&#8217; success, especially in reaching the 2015 Champions League final. The Spaniard also scored the winning goal in the 2016 Coppa Italia final to cement his place in the fans&#8217; hearts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Already a hero in Italy, Morata returns ready to take Serie A by storm once more. Perhaps a return to his most clinical form his on the horizon after inconsistent spells at Chelsea and Atletico Madrid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It has to be said if Morata does return to his best, Juventus will have themselves one of the best strikers in Italy, and perhaps even Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"LprxCy72SCtis5WFRi87KA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1275623642\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'LprxCy72SCtis5WFRi87KA',sig:'DHF1_lmFfUK62S9LScU7wdYzvktKOiLgxink5WL2qkE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1275623642',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c1lvaro Morata has officially completed a move back Juventus. The Spanish striker joins on an initial one-year loan deal with the option for an extra year, plus the option to buy. The move marks yet another transfer to a top European club for Morata, who has had a previous spell at the club.\u00a0 With the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":566834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1362,28],"tags":[1193,210,323,95,48,136],"class_list":["post-566833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serie-a","category-juventus","category-transfers","tag-alvaro-morata","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-juventus","tag-liverpool","tag-serie-a","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}