The coach of the old lady, Massimiliano Allegri, suffered his second defeat in the current season last night, against the current champion Milan, at San Siro, with a score of 2:0.
Until recently, Juventus was considered the strongest team on the boot and was always the main candidate when it comes to the title in the domestic championship, however, things have completely changed, at least when it comes to the current season. They cannot win derby matches in Serie A, in the Champions League they had two initial defeats (against PSG and Benfica), and the games they provide are far from an enviable level.
“I have nothing to say after this kind of game and defeat. I thought we overcame the score and game crisis with victories against Bologna and Maccabi from Haifa, but we fell again, almost without a fight.” Allegri said and added: ”We started the game well, we were better in the 25th minute, but then we retreated too much and made many wrong passes. Of course, Milan, as the current champion, knew how to take advantage of that,’ began Allegri, and followed up on the statement of Pavel Nedved, who commented that he did not like the physical condition of certain players.
“However, I think that this has nothing to do with the physical condition, but with the player’s psyche. Simply due to some defeats against teams that are far below our level, we lost the necessary confidence. That is why it is very important that we beat Maccabi in Haifa already on Tuesday, because only victories increase self-confidence. Tonight, after Rafael Lea’s post, we completely withdrew and stopped playing. We pass too many backwards, and if we continue to retreat in games like this, we won’t get anywhere this season,’ concluded Massimiliano Allegri.
With last night’s defeat, Juventus fell to the 8th position in the Serie A table, with only 13 points from nine games. In the next round, on October 15, he is visiting his city, the Torino team in the city derby.
