The Juventus coach on the eve of the match against Napoli: “The forwards’ bad moment? It could happen, but they’ll score goals again”
There is no desire for revenge, despite the top five, but only to “get to the end” in the best possible way, which for Massimiliano Allegri means “qualifying for the two finals, the Italian Cup and the Europa League, and the second place in the championship”. However, beating a Napoli “who killed Serie A, keeping an impressive roadmap” and is very fast towards the Scudetto would be a great pride and also a nice way to get back up after the two defeats in a row against Lazio and Sassuolo. “They will be angry because they have been eliminated from the Champions League but they are physically fine and then for them Napoli-Juve is always Napoli-Juve. It will be a difficult match because they will want to score as many points as possible to win the Italian flag. But we have to stay in the top four and have second place as our goal.”
no alibis
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The novelty is returning to play in Serie A with 15 points more, even if there is no certainty of the future: “We had to reset everything, readapt to the standings, what we did we did well but now we have to do better. We have to fill all of May by playing 58 games which is the most in a season. I don’t know if the championship is regular, we did everything possible after the penalty, it’s normal that there were some conditioning but I don’t want an excuse. After the penalty there was a daily work done by everyone, a balance was created within the team. It is true that we have compacted ourselves, but maybe if they hadn’t taken away our points we would now have ten points, because conditioning is difficult to explain. As we did before, we only think about the pitch because we have an important objective: we want to play in the Champions League next year.”
Points in crisis
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However, the attack is experiencing a bad moment: in the last 10 games only 4 goals have come from the offensive department. The symbol of the crisis is Vlahovic, who hasn’t scored in Serie A since the beginning of February (Salernitana-Juve): “I’m not worried, he did a good workout and I saw him serene. He is part of a growth path, he certainly hasn’t become scarce. He is not responsible for Juve, so he must remain calm. It’s a moment in which the strikers have difficulty and are less fortunate, but I’m sure that since they’re good they’ll give us a big hand and will score goals again.”
Bremer to evaluate
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In defense, the doubt lies with Bremer, who left Sporting with a physical problem: “He has nothing but I have to see if he can play this morning, but Bonucci and Rugani are fine, De Sciglio is available, then I have to see who has made up the others ”. It is likely that we will return to the 3-5-2 with Milik next to Vlahovic and some changes in between. Not Rabiot, now in a bomber version: “Adrien still has room for improvement in his shot from outside and in the vertical distribution of the ball. Despite this, he is having an extraordinary season. Naples? We don’t want redemption, we just want to beat Napoli who did very well away from home and are a strong team. It would be important to bring home a victory. There is a desire to get to the end, we have done a lot but not yet everything”.
April 22, 2023 (change April 23, 2023 | 00:02)
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