Villarreal-Juve, Vlahovic: ‘A dream to debut like this. Rejoicing? No controversy ‘

“The dream came true, the first match in the Champions League and with a goal. How about Del Piero? A legend, an icon, I don’t want to compare myself with anyone, I don’t want to allow myself “. No player in the Champions League debut as a starter had scored a goal faster than 33 seconds (official Uefa timing, initially seemed more 32) who used Dusan Vlahovic at Villarreal in the first leg of Juventus in the first knockout round of the Champions League. But the Serbian was interested in the goal if it was useful for success: “I’m not very happy because we didn’t win: I, the team and the coach really wanted to win today and it didn’t happen, let’s look ahead”. Over the distance of 180 minutes, without even the away goals that are worth double, for the final word on the issue we have to wait until March 16.

THE EXULT (NOT) POLEMIC

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“We did things as we said in the locker room, but there are also the opponents and they deserve our compliments for the match made”, commented Dusan Vlahovic at the end of the match: “We tried from the beginning to do what we wanted , but they are the dynamics of the race, sometimes it runs badly. I have already forgotten this match, we just have to look forward and win the next one ”. And on the exultation in which he moved his hands (as if to say “bla bla bla”) the Serbian denied polemical references: “I don’t know why you always want to argue. It wasn’t for the critics, it was just for someone from the family ”.

MORATA AND EFFORT

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“I’m fine but I’m sorry because it was a game to win” says team mate Alvaro Morata: “We made a great effort, we had a couple of chances but that’s how football is. We knew that they play well, it was a physical match, everything remains to be decided ”. And on the recovery: “The decline? it’s normal, we come from games where we have made great efforts. Now let’s put our heads on the championship, we have made progress as a team and as a group, we face difficulties in a different way: let’s continue like this “.

DANILO AND THE EMERGENCY

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“It’s the details that make the difference, we had to have more attention there”, comments Danilo, who is important in the set-up with the three-way defense, which is new for the men, rather than for the deployment itself: “We are a bit in an emergency in defense, so we tried to be more covered back there. We must be willing to change form even within the game. In my opinion we played the right match, in some moments we waited too long but we can play the next round in Turin ”.