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Allegri: ‘Focused on Fiorentina’ | Football Italia
Juventus Coach Max Allegri isn’t thinking about the Tottenham Hotspur game - “to get out of Florence with three points you need to play a serious game”.
The Bianconeri return to Champions League action on Tuesday, but first must face the febrile atmosphere of the Stadio Artemio Franchi as they take on Fiorentina tomorrow night.
“We’re thinking about tomorrow,” Allegri underlined in his pre-match Press conference.
“It’s an important match for us to get three points, and for them it’s a match of great rivalry, the match that they experience with huge desire, with the enthusiasm to beat Juventus.
“Last year they succeeded because we lost 2-1, so it’ll be a difficult game, also because they’re coming off a good win.
“They have a young team with great quality. Fiorentina are second in the Italian league for shots per game, and they have a young player in [Federico] Chiesa who has these characteristics.
“So to get out of Florence with three points you need to play a serious game. Only after that will we rest, recover, and think about Tottenham.”
It’s a difficult 10 days for Juventus, as they face the Viola, then Spurs, then the Derby della Madonnina with Torino.
“To get to the end and win the league I think you need to pick up a lot of points, given the average that Napoli are doing and that Juventus are doing.
“If we think that from tomorrow until the game with Spal - because we have to go to Ferrara, it’s the last game before the international break - we have a lot of matches and games against good teams.
“You have to take them one at a time, tomorrow the best team will be on the pitch to play the match and win.
“Then, after tomorrow, we’ll think about and we’ll face them with the intention of progressing and building the foundations to do that.”
Allegri: ‘Dybala out for Fiorentina’ | Football Italia
Massimiliano Allegri confirms Juventus will be without Paulo Dybala for tomorrow’s Fiorentina game, but Douglas Costa will be available.
It was reported today that La Joya was approaching a return, but that he wouldn’t be called for the trip to Florence.
Today the Coach addressed the media in his pre-match Press conference, and was asked about the injured, as well as the possibility of Claudio Marchisio starting tomorrow.
“There’s a chance of seeing Marchisio, but we saw Claudio on Sunday too, he played from 20 minutes in place of [Blaise] Matuidi,” Allegri pointed out.
“I’ll have to see training today to decide whether I’ll make a change or not. There’s no emergency though, because pretty much everyone is back.
“[Juan] Cuadrado is still out but we all knew that would be the case, Dybala, [Benedikt] Howedes and Matuidi are out then the others are available.
“Douglas is fine, but I don’t think he’ll play from the beginning because [Federico] Bernardeschi is fine and it’s only right that Bernardeschi plays in an important match like tomorrow.
“So we have plenty to play in football matches.
“Daniele Rugani? No-one needs to rest, because we played on Sunday and it’s been five days and we’re in trouble if someone needs a rest.
“They’re young, beautiful and sprightly so no rest. Rugani came off on Sunday because he had a niggle in his thigh flexor and I preferred to preserve him, because there was no need to take risks.
“I’ll have to evaluate tomorrow, the only doubt I have is on the right between [Mattia] De Sciglio and [Stephan] Lichtsteiner, with the probability that Lichtsteiner will play.
"Could Dybala be back for Tottenham? I don't know, because I haven't seen him yet.
"We'll see when he comes back to the squad, because it's one thing to train alone but it's another to train with the team and find certain rhythms.
"Then Tottenham isn't the last game of the season. If it's the last game and some is half-fit...
"Among other things it happened to me in the first Champions League final in Berlin, Barzagli was coming off an injury but we took a risk and let him play.
"But when there are 14 league games after tomorrow, another tie in the Coppa Italia and at least one more in the Champions League why should we take risks on a player.
"We'll see. If he's fit he'll be available, then I'll have to evaluate things because I have to look at the whole season, not one game that isn't a final."
With Fiorentina, Tottenham Hotspur and Torino in the next 10 days, is this the most crucial juncture of the season?
“More than the derby, I’d go further, I’d go until the game before the international break on March 18, we’ll see what point we’re at then.
“We’ll have played a lot of games and come through a tough period, as will Napoli because Napoli have tough matches too.
“So we’ll see where we’ll be, but it’s pointless thinking about two months, three months or a month.
“The league will be decided at 16.45 - if we play in the afternoon on the final day, if not 22.45 - on May 20.”
Napoli Coach Maurizio Sarri said that Napoli have done well to keep the Scudetto race alive, as “similar to the Bundesliga, there’s a club that is clearly stronger than the others”.
“I’d just say that the numbers tell you Napoli are a great team,” Allegri responded.
“They’re doing great things, they’re scoring goals and winning so they’re a good team.
“Serie A is not like the Bundesliga because there’s a good duel between Juventus and Napoli.
“A lot, indeed 99 per cent, of why Napoli are there is because of Sarri, so that’s honour to him because he’s taken Napoli to great levels, they’re fighting against Juventus, a team that has won for six years in a row.
“This is a team which has had excellent results and has changed a lot compared to them [Napoli], almost all their players arrived with [Rafa] Benitez.
“So they’ve given continuity to their work and he [Sarri] has done really well to refine that and above all given them a style of play that is really nice to watch.”
‘Napoli can focus on Serie A…’ | Football Italia
Juventus winning a seventh Scudetto in a row would be “extraordinary” says Max Allegri, as “Napoli have concentrated all their strength on the league”.
The two sides are separated by just a point at the top of Serie A, with the Bianconeri travelling to face Fiorentina tomorrow night.
Last weekend they beat Sassuolo 7-0, with some dubbing the Neroverdi ‘Scansuolo’, a pun on the verb “scansare” which means “to step aside”.
“It doesn’t make me smile or irritate me,” Allegri shrugged in today’s Press conference.
“I’ll just say that in the end the best team wins the league and deserves to win the league.
“Each team plays to the characteristics of its players and I always say - I’m becoming boring - that within a season you can’t always have great performances in a match.
“Games last 100 minutes, there’s half an hour where you have to play one way, then an quarter of an hour where maybe you have to play another way.
“There are many small facets within a game, and little moments during a season. We have to continue our journey, our journey toward May 27.
“Winning is not easy, only one team can win and it’s normal that the others are there. Right now it’s Napoli, who have concentrated all their strength on the league because they got knocked out of the Coppa Italia and they’re out of the Champions League, so they’ve focused all their strength on the league.
“For us it’s an important challenge, a challenge within a challenge, i.e reaching the seventh Scudetto.
“That would be something which goes beyond any result, of any plausible imagination.
“If we succeed, the lads will have given me, the fans and the club an extraordinary result, above all by beating a great team like Napoli.”
Tomorrow will be Allegri’s 200th match as Juve Coach.
“I’d say I’m happy with the results the lads have given me in these three-and-a-half years with Juventus, with the work of the club, and for the rest we go forward.
“Everything comes down to results, so far we’ve got them and we want to continue to get them from now on.
“We’ve got an important game tomorrow, and I’d say we’re getting to the most beautiful part of the season.
“You’ve got knockout games - not in the league, because there are still 15 games to go, with 45 points available - but we’ve got a knockout tie with Tottenham and then Atalanta in the Coppa Italia where we’ll either make the final or go home.
“So I think this is a nice period, you need to approach it with great enthusiasm.
“The team is good physically and especially mentally, so there are all the right things in place to be able to do well. Then, as always. it takes a bit of luck.”
Federico Bernardeschi will return to the Stadio Artemio Franchi for the first time tomorrow, having left to join Juve in the summer.
“I think he made a professional choice, he didn’t run away from Florence. If I were at Fiorentina I’d welcome him in a certain way,” Allegri said.
“Then it’s normal that they’ll chant against him, because they’re playing against Juventus and they want Fiorentina to win, so they’ll want to cause him problems on a psychological level.
“Federico is very calm though, among other things he’s a very light-hearted lad. I think this is a particular game for him, but also a good one.”
Mario Mandzukic praised Allegri yesterday, stating that he knows how to listen.
“I think it’s important to know how to listen, but it’s also the hardest thing. I learned it in my old age.
“Before I listened less, now much more.”
Finally, Allegri was asked if he could play a 4-4-2, with Bernardeschi and Douglas Costa on the wings and Gonzalo Higuain and Mandzukic up-front.
“Not tomorrow, no. Yes, yes when Costa’s there, although there’s something with Douglas, we have to see if we can do it or not…
“What is it? Let’s see later, goodbye!”
(Must have a trick up his sleeve with costa?)
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His news conferences are so long
Juventus Coach Max Allegri isn’t thinking about the Tottenham Hotspur game - “to get out of Florence with three points you need to play a serious game”.
The Bianconeri return to Champions League action on Tuesday, but first must face the febrile atmosphere of the Stadio Artemio Franchi as they take on Fiorentina tomorrow night.
“We’re thinking about tomorrow,” Allegri underlined in his pre-match Press conference.
“It’s an important match for us to get three points, and for them it’s a match of great rivalry, the match that they experience with huge desire, with the enthusiasm to beat Juventus.
“Last year they succeeded because we lost 2-1, so it’ll be a difficult game, also because they’re coming off a good win.
“They have a young team with great quality. Fiorentina are second in the Italian league for shots per game, and they have a young player in [Federico] Chiesa who has these characteristics.
“So to get out of Florence with three points you need to play a serious game. Only after that will we rest, recover, and think about Tottenham.”
It’s a difficult 10 days for Juventus, as they face the Viola, then Spurs, then the Derby della Madonnina with Torino.
“To get to the end and win the league I think you need to pick up a lot of points, given the average that Napoli are doing and that Juventus are doing.
“If we think that from tomorrow until the game with Spal - because we have to go to Ferrara, it’s the last game before the international break - we have a lot of matches and games against good teams.
“You have to take them one at a time, tomorrow the best team will be on the pitch to play the match and win.
“Then, after tomorrow, we’ll think about and we’ll face them with the intention of progressing and building the foundations to do that.”
Allegri: ‘Dybala out for Fiorentina’ | Football Italia
Massimiliano Allegri confirms Juventus will be without Paulo Dybala for tomorrow’s Fiorentina game, but Douglas Costa will be available.
It was reported today that La Joya was approaching a return, but that he wouldn’t be called for the trip to Florence.
Today the Coach addressed the media in his pre-match Press conference, and was asked about the injured, as well as the possibility of Claudio Marchisio starting tomorrow.
“There’s a chance of seeing Marchisio, but we saw Claudio on Sunday too, he played from 20 minutes in place of [Blaise] Matuidi,” Allegri pointed out.
“I’ll have to see training today to decide whether I’ll make a change or not. There’s no emergency though, because pretty much everyone is back.
“[Juan] Cuadrado is still out but we all knew that would be the case, Dybala, [Benedikt] Howedes and Matuidi are out then the others are available.
“Douglas is fine, but I don’t think he’ll play from the beginning because [Federico] Bernardeschi is fine and it’s only right that Bernardeschi plays in an important match like tomorrow.
“So we have plenty to play in football matches.
“Daniele Rugani? No-one needs to rest, because we played on Sunday and it’s been five days and we’re in trouble if someone needs a rest.
“They’re young, beautiful and sprightly so no rest. Rugani came off on Sunday because he had a niggle in his thigh flexor and I preferred to preserve him, because there was no need to take risks.
“I’ll have to evaluate tomorrow, the only doubt I have is on the right between [Mattia] De Sciglio and [Stephan] Lichtsteiner, with the probability that Lichtsteiner will play.
"Could Dybala be back for Tottenham? I don't know, because I haven't seen him yet.
"We'll see when he comes back to the squad, because it's one thing to train alone but it's another to train with the team and find certain rhythms.
"Then Tottenham isn't the last game of the season. If it's the last game and some is half-fit...
"Among other things it happened to me in the first Champions League final in Berlin, Barzagli was coming off an injury but we took a risk and let him play.
"But when there are 14 league games after tomorrow, another tie in the Coppa Italia and at least one more in the Champions League why should we take risks on a player.
"We'll see. If he's fit he'll be available, then I'll have to evaluate things because I have to look at the whole season, not one game that isn't a final."
With Fiorentina, Tottenham Hotspur and Torino in the next 10 days, is this the most crucial juncture of the season?
“More than the derby, I’d go further, I’d go until the game before the international break on March 18, we’ll see what point we’re at then.
“We’ll have played a lot of games and come through a tough period, as will Napoli because Napoli have tough matches too.
“So we’ll see where we’ll be, but it’s pointless thinking about two months, three months or a month.
“The league will be decided at 16.45 - if we play in the afternoon on the final day, if not 22.45 - on May 20.”
Napoli Coach Maurizio Sarri said that Napoli have done well to keep the Scudetto race alive, as “similar to the Bundesliga, there’s a club that is clearly stronger than the others”.
“I’d just say that the numbers tell you Napoli are a great team,” Allegri responded.
“They’re doing great things, they’re scoring goals and winning so they’re a good team.
“Serie A is not like the Bundesliga because there’s a good duel between Juventus and Napoli.
“A lot, indeed 99 per cent, of why Napoli are there is because of Sarri, so that’s honour to him because he’s taken Napoli to great levels, they’re fighting against Juventus, a team that has won for six years in a row.
“This is a team which has had excellent results and has changed a lot compared to them [Napoli], almost all their players arrived with [Rafa] Benitez.
“So they’ve given continuity to their work and he [Sarri] has done really well to refine that and above all given them a style of play that is really nice to watch.”
‘Napoli can focus on Serie A…’ | Football Italia
Juventus winning a seventh Scudetto in a row would be “extraordinary” says Max Allegri, as “Napoli have concentrated all their strength on the league”.
The two sides are separated by just a point at the top of Serie A, with the Bianconeri travelling to face Fiorentina tomorrow night.
Last weekend they beat Sassuolo 7-0, with some dubbing the Neroverdi ‘Scansuolo’, a pun on the verb “scansare” which means “to step aside”.
“It doesn’t make me smile or irritate me,” Allegri shrugged in today’s Press conference.
“I’ll just say that in the end the best team wins the league and deserves to win the league.
“Each team plays to the characteristics of its players and I always say - I’m becoming boring - that within a season you can’t always have great performances in a match.
“Games last 100 minutes, there’s half an hour where you have to play one way, then an quarter of an hour where maybe you have to play another way.
“There are many small facets within a game, and little moments during a season. We have to continue our journey, our journey toward May 27.
“Winning is not easy, only one team can win and it’s normal that the others are there. Right now it’s Napoli, who have concentrated all their strength on the league because they got knocked out of the Coppa Italia and they’re out of the Champions League, so they’ve focused all their strength on the league.
“For us it’s an important challenge, a challenge within a challenge, i.e reaching the seventh Scudetto.
“That would be something which goes beyond any result, of any plausible imagination.
“If we succeed, the lads will have given me, the fans and the club an extraordinary result, above all by beating a great team like Napoli.”
Tomorrow will be Allegri’s 200th match as Juve Coach.
“I’d say I’m happy with the results the lads have given me in these three-and-a-half years with Juventus, with the work of the club, and for the rest we go forward.
“Everything comes down to results, so far we’ve got them and we want to continue to get them from now on.
“We’ve got an important game tomorrow, and I’d say we’re getting to the most beautiful part of the season.
“You’ve got knockout games - not in the league, because there are still 15 games to go, with 45 points available - but we’ve got a knockout tie with Tottenham and then Atalanta in the Coppa Italia where we’ll either make the final or go home.
“So I think this is a nice period, you need to approach it with great enthusiasm.
“The team is good physically and especially mentally, so there are all the right things in place to be able to do well. Then, as always. it takes a bit of luck.”
Federico Bernardeschi will return to the Stadio Artemio Franchi for the first time tomorrow, having left to join Juve in the summer.
“I think he made a professional choice, he didn’t run away from Florence. If I were at Fiorentina I’d welcome him in a certain way,” Allegri said.
“Then it’s normal that they’ll chant against him, because they’re playing against Juventus and they want Fiorentina to win, so they’ll want to cause him problems on a psychological level.
“Federico is very calm though, among other things he’s a very light-hearted lad. I think this is a particular game for him, but also a good one.”
Mario Mandzukic praised Allegri yesterday, stating that he knows how to listen.
“I think it’s important to know how to listen, but it’s also the hardest thing. I learned it in my old age.
“Before I listened less, now much more.”
Finally, Allegri was asked if he could play a 4-4-2, with Bernardeschi and Douglas Costa on the wings and Gonzalo Higuain and Mandzukic up-front.
“Not tomorrow, no. Yes, yes when Costa’s there, although there’s something with Douglas, we have to see if we can do it or not…
“What is it? Let’s see later, goodbye!”
(Must have a trick up his sleeve with costa?)
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His news conferences are so long
And people wanted sarri instead 
When we hired Allegri it was in no way 'a sure thing'. How things ended in Milan was more than reason enough to be sceptical. Especially condering he was to replace the coach who turned the ship around. Of course anyone who is not supportive of Allegr now must be high, but back then? lel
That said, what Sarri has done in Napoli is more than impressive. 67% winrate and it's not liek the dude has a bunch of world class talents. Furthermore his teaching methods are praised by high and low.
