Juventus, Allegri: “Anger remains, but there’s an excellent basis for restarting”

“When you don’t win, you are left with anger. Otherwise you become like many other realities, so winning or losing is the same”. Even if there is one game left until the end of the season – that of Udine where he began his second cycle on the black and white bench – Allegri he is already ready to plan next season, with the same enthusiasm and with a baggage of emotions and experience accumulated in this “terrible, sportingly speaking” season. Not only for the off-field events of the Juventus, given that not lifting a trophy, for the second season in a row, has increased the number of fans who would like a change on the bench: “There are always the discontented and the happy, it used to happen when we won and it happens now that we don’t win. It’s part of the game, we have to analyze the two years, work with great serenity and professionalism, trying to make as few mistakes as possible because perfection doesn’t exist”. There is no perfection, but there is a date for the recovery: “The tests will take place on July 10, we will resume on that day. There is a good basis for restarting”.

Udine to try to hook the Europa League

The match at the Dacia Arena almost comes full circle, but listening to Allegri’s words he does so only metaphorically: no cycle will close, at least according to the coach, in the Friuli facility. Where Allegri’s cycle began again on August 22, 2021, returning after five championships in five years to pick up where he left off. However, without being able to retrace, even if only in part, his previous and exciting career: “It was a strange game, we scored with Ronaldo disallowed by centimeters (final 2-2 with Szczesny’s “duck”, ed.). Juve would have had more difficulty in winning, it was being rebuilt even if we start every time and we must have the ambition to win. I returned with enthusiasm, good things have been done in these two years. Without trophies, but we put 5 young boys in the first team”. It almost seems that rather than winning, the motto has become planning, but in reality it is not like that: even if there is the awareness that the qualification for the cups will first have to pass the “gauntlets” of the Uefawinning in Udine would guarantee the possibility of hooking up to qualification in Europa League.

Between the year to close and the future to plan

While there is still a game to be played, with a goal to be achieved, the long-term future takes on greater meaning for the fans and for society. Qualifying for the Europa League does not necessarily mean taking part in it, but it remains a goal within reach. It will be enough to beat Udinese and hope for an equal match between Roma and Atalanta: “We have to close well in Udine after two consecutive knockouts and we have the possibility, but it does not depend on us, of hitting the Europa League, given that for now we are in the Conference. We need to play a good game, against a Udinese team that will try to beat Juve: when that happens, it’s the match of the season for the opponents”. After having dribbled the questions about the transfer market (“the club does it”) and his future (“the day after Udine the club will decide what to do depending on the position and the cup”), he begins to rattle off the absentees: “Vlahovic he has been out for a week and will be out like Bremer, Fagioli, De Sciglio, Pogba, Kaio. The others are available. Vlahovic, in the season, between groins and difficulties, I think he scored 10 goals in the league. Dusan is important, he has potential to have a great career.”