‘He’s gonna be a superstar’: 19yo Juve striker Kean nets for 5th straight game in win over AC Milan

Teenager Moise Kean emerged from a week during which he suffered racial abuse by Cagliari fans to score the winner for Juventus against AC Milan in Serie A on Saturday.

Substitute Kean scored in the 84th minute with a well-taken finish after being played in by Miralem Pjanic, as Juventus came from behind to secure a 2-1 win over Milan and put themselves an incredible 21 points clear at the top of the table.

Prolific Pole Krzysztof Piątek had put Milan in front on 39 minutes at the Allianz Stadium with his 21st league goal of the season, before Argentine forward Paulo Dybala won and converted a second-half penalty for Juve.

Italian teenager Kean then replaced Dybala and went on to bag the winner for his team, slotting home past Pepe Reina with just over five minutes of normal time left.

Among the first to celebrate with Kean was Juve teammate Leonardo Bonucci, who was heavily criticized for claiming that the striker was partly responsible for the sickening abuse he had received at the hands of Cagliari fans earlier in the week.

But after another match-winning performance from Kean, which saw him net for the fifth straight game for club and country, and for the eighth time in 10 games in 2019, social media was abuzz with praise for a young man who seems destined for stardom.

Juve were without top scorer Cristiano Ronaldo, who is facing a fitness battle to overcome a thigh injury in time for the Champions League quarter-final first leg against Ajax on Wednesday.

But in Kean and Dybala they have more than able stand-ins, and the pair’s goals on Saturday all-but guaranteed an eighth successive Serie A title for the Turin club.

They will be crowned champions should second-placed Napoli lose to Genoa tomorrow, or in any case with one more win.   

They signed a ready-made great in Ronaldo in the summer, but have an emerging star on their hands in the form of 19-year-old Kean.