The Juventus coach after the 3-2 against Bodo Glimt, which relaunches the team’s ambitions to access the Champions League playoffs
A sigh of relief. Juve returns from the cold of Bodo with 3 fundamental points with a view to qualifying for the Champions League playoffs and Luciano Spalletti does not hide his lighter spirit. “I’m happy tonight because I saw the players in the locker room with a more relaxed face – explains the Juventus coach to Sky Sports -. We can say whatever we want, but the players suffer, they aren’t as careless as we want to make people think… I’ve got a bit of a hangover by now, I live in any situation calmly. This is an important victory, which the players deserved and we dedicate it to ourselves and to the people who came here making three stops to get there.” More than the decisive impact of Yildiz from the bench or the return to goals of David and Openda, for the coach from Certaldo the fundamental aspect of the trip to Norway is having found responses of character. “The team doesn’t come out free from the plays, it doesn’t have great courage, it suffers a bit from this cloud that we have above what we are told and this victory becomes fundamental – Spalletti again admits -. But now I’m on him because we have to be these people here: we showed it… Then, of course, here too we created problems because we called it into question and we shouldn’t have done it. The players have to grow mentally, but we also have to improve in condition and we have to find solutions because the team has some horsepower in its engine.”
shoulder pads after bodo glimt-juve
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The Juventus coach then abandons the role of psychologist and focuses on the technical aspects. “It becomes essential to have had the semblance of a team that plays it openly and plays the game across the pitch, with reversals in front, with difficulty in certain moments, because they have a quality in the close and a speed of idea, which we were intimidated by watching the previous matches – he continues -. The team entered the pitch, always continued to go to the front, played quickly and made good plays. Everyone suffered on this pitch and everyone told us that they seem to be going faster and breathing more easily. In the second half it would have been a shame not to take it home, because we deserved it.” And so, despite the cold and sharp air of Bodo, Spalletti can take a deep breath full of relief.