Trezeguet ready to return
“I’m in good shape. I was thinking about returning last week, but together with the medical team and the coach we decided to delay my comeback for another seven days. Yesterday I trained with the squad for the first time and it went without a hitch, so I’m thinking I’ll almost certainly be available for Friday”. David Trezeguet is ready to return. Over his muscular problems and raring to go despite a lengthy period on the sidelines, the French goal-machine already feels up to a full ninety minutes. “One of the reasons I chose to work an extra week was so I’d be available right from the start, I wanted to come back 100% fit for all ninety minutes. Obviously it’s then up to the boss to decide if and when to use me”. For a full-blooded striker like David time away from the field and a lack of goals are tough to cope with.
“It’s not the goals I miss but the ball, my team mates, the games. Goals are secondary just because I know that if the team’s playing in a certain way, my job is that much easier. What’s most important is that after a little drop in form, we’re getting back to our best and this is an extra motivation for me. We’re looking to play our best football: we’ve won most of our games, but we also want to do things in style. Serie B is a difficult championship with defensive teams and a modest technical level, so it’s up to us to play attractive football. It’s a strange and somewhat difficult year for everyone, so it’s almost an obligation to enjoy ourselves on the field, even if that’s not our primary concern: what counts most is to win and to return to Serie A straight away”.
Inevitably he was asked by the journalists whether, once promotion has been secured, he too will demand from the club a squad able to challenge for the scudetto as early as next season. “I’ve been here seven years and I’ve won four scudetti, so it’s normal to want a competitive team, but it’s still too early to start talking about the future. There are still seven months to go and thinking about all that is premature, we don’t even know if we’re going to win the Serie B championship yet. We’ll wait and see what the club has planned and then we’ll decide what to do. The only thing I can guarantee now is that this group is very close and everyone wants the best for the club and the fans. For example, the reason this injury has been so frustrating is that it’s kept me away from the team”.
The closeness of the team is effectively an extra string in the bow of Juventus, already top in December despite the penalty. “No one expected us to be in first place before Christmas. The most difficult thing was to get ourselves in amongst the leaders, but now we have to stay there. In Serie B however, it’s all about what happens in the last three months and we need to be alert, as we’ve seen that some of these teams can cause us problems. Having said that, so far we’ve shown we’re able to keep our concentration; certainly the first game against Rimini helped us 'understand’ this championship. It’s just a case of maintaining our course now”.