Juventus, Allegri: “It’s not enough to play parts of the game, we wasted an opportunity”

“We have lost an opportunity to reach the Champions League”. Massimiliano Allegri is embittered after Juventus’ defeat in Reggio Emilia against Sassuolo: “Winning would have been an important step for our championship, especially considering the Milanese result. It would have been essential to bring Milan and Inter closer together but that was not the case: we cannot rely only on good clips of matches. Now the right recipe is to be silent and work”.

“Bad for an hour, we had to have a different approach”

The Juventus coach does not think that the team has been distracted by the return with Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League: “I don’t think so. We have many players who are recovering to their best condition but this shouldn’t be an alibi. After the goal we managed to react but the previous 60 minutes weren’t up to par. The approach must be different, especially on individual game occasions such as dead balls where we didn’t do well. Now we need to get up and analyze the mistakes we made. Work and bring out the right energies , both to go through against Sporting Lisbon and to play a good home game against Napoli.

“Fagioli is not guilty of the defeat”

In closing, Allegri is keen to lift the weight of the defeat off Fagioli’s shoulders who provided Defrel’s involuntary assist for the winning goal: “He’s certainly not the culprit of the result: those responsible must be found in the whole team. His tears at the end of the game photograph the great responsibility of a serious boy”.