He's right.It's a 4 point difference with almost half of our league games to go.Being negative is natural with the run of results Juve has had,but calling it a herculean task is wrong too.
It's far from being mission impossible, I agree. 4 points behind the 4th placed Napoli and a game in hand.
But there are valid reasons why Andy and many others are so pessimistic. I'll name some:
1. We have 8 home and 9 away matches left in serie A. 4 of the away matches are against Milan, Inter, Napoli and Fiorentina, all of them hot candidates for top 4, in addition to away matches against Sampdoria and Udinese. In order to get that 4th place we'll need to gain lots of points on away turf and it will be pretty tough with a schedule like this.
2. How much time will be needed until we get on form again? We have a pretty easy schedule in the next 4 rounds. Home matches against Lazio and Genoa and away matches to Livorno and Bologna. This might be a blessing (not to play the best teams while we're in awful form and missing so many players) but it also might be very tricky and negative because it'll take time to get out of these crisis and if we lose pts on the next 3-4 matches, then it will be tougher as time goes on because the best teams will follow later and we play most of them away.
3. Our tradition with injuries. Will it miraculously stop or our players will keep getting injured.
4. Europa league. How long will we stay there. For example, we play Palermo (another rival of ours for the top 4) 3 days after we play Ajax in Europa League. That automatically gives an advantage to Palermo in our match and if we keep going in Europe other teams will also have an advantage before they play us.
5. How well will our main rivals do? If Fiorentina gets Cassano, they'll be a strong rival for that 4th place, especially if Bayern gives them an early elimination from the CL.