Spalletti after Juve’s victory over Udinese in the Italian Cup

Bodo, Cagliari and Udinese. Champions League, Serie A and Italian Cup. Three consecutive successes for Spalletti’s Juve, who enjoy qualification for the quarter-finals against the winner of Atalanta-Genoa tomorrow: “We dedicate the victory to Alessio Ferramosca and Riccardo Neri, the boys from the Juventus academy who passed away on 15 December 2006, and to their families. We played a decent match, we did everything well, against teams that have leg, strength, the danger is – when you lose the ball – to concede the flank, but that didn’t happen. We got ourselves important opportunities in addition to the goals. There were opportunities that could have been managed better and given the level of who we have to catch, we must always be ferocious, mean, the real lion puts all his strength even with the little mouse… With the penalty we made it safe otherwise then we risk even for an episode.”

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They then ask him about the strikers: “He and Openda are two central strikers, one is very good technically, the other is more relational with the team, Jonathan knows how to put the ball in with limited turns, he moves very well in the area, he knows how to handle difficult balls. Openda is better at attacking the depth, they compensate each other, they can also play together. We are pleased that they are in good condition. The return to Naples on Sunday? It will be an incandescent emotion, I have many friends, children waiting for me, it will count what my feeling will be in the towards them, not how I will be welcomed, mine will be that of a person who loves them as much as possible”. We then talk about good football: “At Juve there are very good players, since I arrived I have found everyone’s availability, day by day I have seen something new in training, progress, and this gives me hope for playing good football as we did tonight even against higher quality teams. We are on the right path.”