Alex Sandro admits Juventus have “no excuses” for losing to Inter, and believes it’s “not only” Napoli who will fight for the Scudetto.
The Bianconeri were defeated 2-1 in the Derby d’Italia, despite having taken a second-half lead through Stephan Lichtsteiner.
“I think it was a difficult game,” Alex Sandro explained to JTV.
“We knew we’d find a hostile environment and big pressure, a team which wanted to win at home. We had the chance to win, but unfortunately we didn’t succeed.
Alex Sandro admits Juventus have “no excuses” for losing to Inter, and believes it’s “not only” Napoli who will fight for the Scudetto.
The Bianconeri were defeated 2-1 in the Derby d’Italia, despite having taken a second-half lead through Stephan Lichtsteiner.
“I think it was a difficult game,” Alex Sandro explained to JTV.
“We knew we’d find a hostile environment and big pressure, a team which wanted to win at home. We had the chance to win, but unfortunately we didn’t succeed.
“Now we need to have the right mentality and work, training session after training session and game after game.
“We have no excuses, we have to react immediately and I’m sure we’ll improve because we have a strong group.
“We need to improve, sometimes when we’ve scored our concentration levels have dropped a little bit, and so we have to increase our level of attention, including on dead balls, counter-attacks and even when we have the ball.
“I really think that’s the one thing we have to improve.
“I think that after the disappointment of the last game we have to use that and turn it into competitive nastiness on the pitch against Cagliari and go for victory from the first minute.”
The defeat allowed Napoli to move to the top of Serie A, having finished behind the Old Lady last season.
“Obviously the League is still open, we’re only at the beginning and I think every team wants to get to the top and be champions so I can’t say only Juventus and Napoli will fight for the Scudetto.
“At the start we’re seeing that every team is doing their utmost to be competitive, but in the end Juventus think about Juventus and not about other teams.”
Juve are among the favourites for this year’s Champions League, but started with a goalless draw against Sevilla.
“We very much wanted to win against Sevilla but we knew we’d find a tough team,” the Brazilian reflected.
“The match ended in a draw, but in the next game [at Dinamo Zagreb] we have to go into it and only think about winning.”