It will be a tough game, there’s a lot of anticipation, we need to start well.
Besides Pirlo’s injury, Llorente, Giovinco and Padoin worked little because they had the flu, anyway they will be called up and they will start on the bench. Marchisio will replace Pirlo as deep-lying playmaker. I haven’t decided the tactic yet, it will depend on Chievo’s scheme.
Vidal worked well this week, his knee needs to be managed but he could start tomorrow. We have restated several times, the management and I, that Vidal is a fundamental player and that he will stay at Juventus.
In our Champions League’s group there are four teams that won their leagues, it’s not easy to pass it and this will be our first seasonal objective. Malmoe have a better condition than we do, Atletico Madrid are as strong as last year, Olypiamkos are experienced and they passed the group last season.
I don’t know where we’ll arrive, it’s normal that there are teams like Barcelona, Bayern and Real Madrid that made a certain type of transfer market, there’s some gap between the Italian teams and the foreign ones but this doesn’t mean that the Italian teams can’t do well in Champions League.
Slow starts? I think it’s a coincidence, sometimes it depended on some situations created by the Super Cup or the Champions League’s play-off, this time we are in position to do well right away.
Transfer market? At the moment I speak only about the play I have at my disposal, it makes no sense to talk about the transfer market the day before a match. We want to do well tomorrow and we’ll evaluate in the next days if we need to complete the rosters.
Besides Juventus and Roma, Inter are a competitor for Scudetto, they had a good summer window, Napoli are in play too, the elimination from Champions League doesn’t lower their value. Fiorentina with the recoveries of Rossi and Gomez and the confirmation of Cuadrado have their say, while Milan will find a way to return at high leves and Lazio did an excellent transfer market.
