Three days after the victory over Deportivo La Coruna which brought the Bianconeri closer to the Champions League quarterfinals, Juventus will play again an evening match at the Delle Alpi: on Saturday, Lippi’s boys will face Modena for the 25th gameday of Serie A.
But before setting his mind on the opponent, the Bianconero coach has to think about the situation of many of his players: “When you have to play so many matches in few days, the manager has to make his considerations and use all the time he’s got. This is why tomorrow morning we’ll make a light training session. The match played on Wednesday night was a hard one”.
The victory over Deportivo was expensive but gave a lot of satisfaction to the Bianconeri, who are now closer to the Champions League quartefinals, even if Marcello Lippi doesn’t want to celebrate before being sure of getting through: “We still have to gain the qualification: we don’t have to do the mistake of thinking at the Tuesday match againt Basel as an easy one. Also the little risks may become bigger if you do that. Enthusiasm? Not yet, now we’re aware and satisfied of what we’ve gained till now: enthusiasm can make you lose your mind”.
Between Deportivo and Basel there’s now this Serie A match against Modena, a match that must be not understimated: “We’ll be without Del Piero, Conte and Di Vaio, who today had a problem on his ankle – Lippi explained – Tudor? I don’t think he’ll play the whole match, but he has to start playing with more continuity. I’ll wait tomorrow anyway to chose the team. I only know that we won’t suffer the risk of understimating the match. Modena has a good organization, with quick players like Kamara and Vignaroli and dangerous midfielders like Colucci and Marasco. All this small teams have a good organization and can play their matches. I’m sure they won’t think only about the defense”.