Maurizio Sarri in awe of Gonzalo Higuaín's goal 'of rare beauty' | OneFootball

On Wednesday, Juventus advanced to the Coppa Italia quarter-finals in resounding fashion, blowing away Udinese 4-0 behind a pair of goals from Paulo Dybala in addition to a beautiful opener from Gonzalo Higuaín and a Douglas Costa penalty.

Higuaín got Juve off and running in the 16th minute thanks to a gorgeous five-pass piece of interplay with Dybala, who scored a stunner of his own in the second half.

Even more impressively, Juve completely dominated their fellow Serie A opponents without Cristiano Ronaldo, who missed out due to sinusitis.

After the match, Maurizio Sarri lauded his team’s performance and congratulated his players for doing all of the hard work.

“The knockout fixtures are always an unknown factor, but the feeling in training was that the team was brilliant, so I expected a great performance, and, in fact, we had a good match,” Sarri said.

“The first goal is of rare beauty, with trade [of passes] at full speed.

“Our team has great potential, sometimes it gives the feeling of being able to do more, but we are growing.

“Ronaldo was not present because for a couple of days he had a bit of sinusitis and today he felt some shivers, so we prefer to keep him rested given the cold evening.

“Is it Sarri’s Juve? No, it’s Cristiano’s, Dybala’s, Higuain’s Juve… I’m trying to put something of my own in it, but you have to respect the characteristics of the players.”

Juve will learn their quarter-final opponents tomorrow, as they will take on the winner of Parma and Roma next Wednesday, 22 January.