The Juventus coach after the defeat against Milan in the Super Cup semi-final: “We should have closed the match, but we weren’t able to do so”
This time, Thiago Motta is also bitter. After the comeback elimination against Milan in the semi-final of the Italian Super Cup, the Juve coach has a dark and frowning face in front of the cameras Channel 5. As never seen before this season. And the explanation certainly cannot be the first defeat of the season against an Italian team (the other was the home defeat in the Champions League against Stuttgart). “We can’t be happy with what we did: we had some situations to close the game against a Milan that had created very little and we conceded two goals – begins the Juventus coach -. We had to close the game and we weren’t able to do it.”
thiago motta and the changes
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Many discussions also arise from the choices of the Italian-Brazilian coach: starting with McKennie as a full-back and Cambiaso on the bench and, above all, replacing Vlahovic and Mbangula with the Italian number 27 and Nico Gonzalez with 25′ to go. “I would do them again, because choices are made for the good of the team and then it’s up to you to judge”, says Thiago Motta shortly. Which, however, is clear on the weight that this match has in the growth of the group and on the inability of the Juventus team to manage the matches. “It’s an important defeat because it was a match in which we had a great chance of reaching the final and we weren’t able to do so – admits Motta -. And we can’t be happy with what we did in the first 70 minutes. We have to improve in character: it was a controlled game on our side, then we weren’t good at reacting after the first negative episode.” And this, given the 11 draws in 18 league games, is starting to become a recurring problem…