The Juventus coach presents the big match: “Marotta, great communicator… Alex Sandro returns, next week Danilo. Locatelli? I’ll understand tomorrow if he will be the starter or on the bench. Chiesa well in blue? He had already done well with us too, to be decided the center forward next to him”
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“It won’t be a decisive match, but a good test in our growth path”: this is how Massimiliano Allegri defined the Italian derby from the Juventus point of view, the match between the first and second in the standings, the one that can bring back the Lady on top 3 years after the last time. Yet the Juventus coach continues to refuse the role of favorite that the Inter fans want to place on him and to talk about the Champions League instead of the Scudetto.
inter more ready
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“We are experiencing the approach to this match in the best possible way, we have prepared well because for us it is very important that we play against the championship favorites as they themselves have declared, it is nothing new. But nothing will be decided tomorrow, I am very happy with the team’s growth but there are still many games to go, we know that we face a strong Inter who are more ready than us. It’s a question of path, I don’t think they were angry because I said that they are favorites because they themselves have declared that the objective is the championship. We are following a different path, we want to return to the Champions League, it will be a good test for us. The kids are ready and I don’t have to ask them anything. A good performance will be needed: great challenges are won with details.”
SHIELD RACE
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Allegri continues to put his Juventus one step behind Inter, Napoli and Milan, although the league table says otherwise: “It’s been a long time since we played a match for first place but nothing changes us, we must want to beat Juventus Inter like all the other teams. We must know how to interpret the various moments of the match. I don’t see a championship race limited to Inter and Juve, Milan and Napoli are the two teams that will fight with Inter until the end. We have to look at the distance from fifth to return to the Champions League. I have a truly extraordinary group of guys who will definitely do well tomorrow.”
MAROTTA GREAT COMMUNICATOR
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Only compliments for Inzaghi and Marotta: “Inzaghi is doing an excellent job, last year he reached the Champions League final, this year he is in the lead and has already topped the group in the Cup, the numbers are all on his side. It’s a team that concedes little and when it takes the lead it’s difficult to catch up. Marotta is doing an excellent job, I can only compliment him, I don’t know if he wanted to tease me or praise me, I can only say that he is a good communicator too.”
THE DOUBTS: LOCA AND THE ATTACK
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As for the lineup, the two main doubts are Locatelli and who will play in attack together with Chiesa: “Alex returns, Danilo will be ready before Monza, Let’s see. I will decide tomorrow on Locatelli whether he will be the starter or start from the bench. We don’t have any problems in midfield, we have Nicolussi Caviglia, Iling and Cambiaso can act as midfielders and Miretti can act as a director. It doesn’t seem right to me to change after 12 games, all 5 are doing well up front. Chiesa returned very well from the national team but had also played good games with Juventus, I will have to decide who will be the center forward between Milik, Kean and Vlahovic. The bench will be important because the details will count. Spalletti says that Chiesa is in our Sinner? If he is as good at playing tennis as he is at football, he is.” Closing on Vlahovic, who hasn’t scored for more than 2 months: “Vlahovic started well by scoring 4 important goals and I’m sure he’ll be back to scoring between now and the end of the year because he’s a quality player.”
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