Spalletti on Fiorentina-Juve: “Too many errors, we need to raise the level”

“We were too scholastic in the first half and we made too many quality errors that we cannot make because our level must be higher. We must raise the level of everything in order to win.” Luciano Spalletti thus photographs the moment of his Juve after the third draw in a row. Franchi’s 1-1 draw against Fiorentina slows down the Bianconeri once again and the scolding (always in a calm tone) arrives. “Today was a difficult match against a team that wanted to react, below its potential, and that found a coach who gives emotional energy: we know Vanoli well, his passion and his attitude and to make his players fight. We were chosen to do more, we absolutely have to raise the level.”

scudetto and yildiz

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Spalletti then returns to clarify the issue of the scudetto and the difference between winning it and fighting to achieve it: “I said as an ambition you have to have the fight for the scudetto, it’s different. I think I can give more than what we saw today. The silence of the players in the locker room shows me that they too are not happy. That makes me happy. We need to go on the pitch and play different football. We are the ones who show off.” The one who at times has seen too little of himself is Yildiz and Spalletti explains the reason: “We found him little, we carried the ball too many times on the defensive perimeter, sometimes we have to skip a pass to put it in, we didn’t do that much. When we freed ourselves at the edge we made mistakes. Yildiz was more central in the first half, in the second he played more on the left, we have to go and play more, to verticalize a little more”.

the chants against Vlahovic and the late changes

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“Dusan has a character that the more they push on him, the more correctly and positively he reacts – he then explained, returning to the racist chants towards his number 9 -. From a social point of view, we have to stop going to the stadium to do things that don’t make sense with sport. The longer we take this step, the more we are going to make the most beautiful sport in the world ugly. If there wasn’t football, life would be sadder, so we have to go and improve.” Closing, in the conference, on the entrances onto the pitch in the 88th minute of Openda and David: “I let them in late…”. To close with a mea culpa.