Champions, Tudor pre-Real press conference

Real Madrid, but also calendars and external analyzes on Juventus’ moment. Igor Tudor is a river in flood and doesn’t say anything. “I expect a great reaction, I believe that tomorrow we will play an important match, courageous and with the desire to hurt Real Madrid.” Tudor shows the way to chase away the bad moment and emerge unscathed from the super challenge at the home of Mbappé’s Blancos: “You can’t come to the Bernabeu and speculate too much, Real Madrid can score a goal for you in a second”, explains the Juventus coach under the eyes of managers Damien Comolli, Giorgio Chiellini and Francois Modesto. The moment is difficult – one defeat and five draws in the last six outings – and Igor tries to keep controversy, criticism and the names of successors away from the team. “The rumors and names of my possible successors? I don’t think about myself, I’m only focused on the team. I experience the difficulties with clarity and concentration to understand what is best for the team.”

CALENDARS AND ANALYSIS

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Tudor also removes some stone: from calendars to external analyzes on the Lady’s results. “Algorithms or no algorithms, this is a crazy calendar. We faced Borussia Dortmund, Villarreal and now Real Madrid in the Champions League, Inter, Atalanta and Milan in the league… Against Inter, Borussia Dortmund, Atalanta and Villarreal there were great performances in the second half, in the middle there is Verona where they denied us a penalty… If we draw with Milan, the fans are not happy. If we had played against Cremonese and not against Milan, we would have been top of the table. Juventus crisis? Nobody says we faced all these difficult races one after the other. We weren’t perfect and neither was I, but if we think about 3-8-2 modules or numbers then the path is wrong. You have to have intellectual honesty and understand the situation: we are an excellent team when we are at our best. You have to be humble and… shiny. A draw is not always two points lost, I tell you this with great self-criticism. I like this team, but the shirt is heavy. If the analysis is we are Juventus then we must always win, it is not the right analysis.” Meanwhile, there is Real Madrid and Tudor is looking for a luxury victory in the Champions League to make a breakthrough and perhaps a few goals from the forwards, who have not scored since the September match against Borussia Dortmund. “They need to shoot more on goal, I saw Vlahovic well.”

KHEPHREN COMMANDS

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The contribution of Khephren Thuram, an increasingly Juventus team man, will also be decisive at the Bernabeu: “We talked among ourselves about what happened in Como – explained the French midfielder, in the conference next to the coach -. We want to do better. And we have confidence, not fear. We are aware of our responsibility and we must demonstrate it on the pitch”. Closing on Mbappé: “He has proven to be the best in the world, even more than Lamine Yamal.”