Juve-Fribourg, Pessotto’s comment

The Juve manager: “The Germans are to be taken with a grain of salt, they beat Nantes twice in the group. Angel gave us charisma and quality”

“It will be a good challenge – is the immediate comment of Gianluca Pessotto, head of Juve’s youth sector, after the draw in Nyon which identified Freiburg as Juve’s opponents in the round of 16 of the Europa League -, an unprecedented match against a a strong team, which is doing well in the league and is unbeaten in Europe. In the group stage they beat Nantes twice, they are a rival to be taken with a grain of salt.” Streich’s side are fourth in the Bundesliga with 40 points from 21 games.

Effect of Mary

“With Nantes we have seen that every game must be played with the utmost attention and without taking anything for granted, we are ready. We want to get to the bottom of the Europa League”. On the Di Maria effect: “Di Maria? We hope you’ll stay another year, the important thing will be to do well and win something – added the former defender -, this could help. Angel will give everything from here to the end. Now the The team has another aspect, there is the charisma and quality of Di Maria, a player on whom we have bet a lot, as well as Pogba and the recovery of Chiesa. Yesterday he put in a super performance and dragged the team along, we hope what remains”.

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