Max Allegri admits he is more worried about Juventus after the defeat to Milan, complaining they ‘need to shake off the fear’ and be more positive. ‘At a certain point we just stop playing.’
The Bianconeri thought they had turned a corner over the last week, beating Bologna 3-0 and then Maccabi Haifa 3-1 in the Champions League, but it was a return to disappointment at San Siro.
There was some controversy around the first goal, as Theo Hernandez seemed to foul Juan Cuadrado leading up to the corner from which Fikayo Tomori scored, but on the second Brahim Diaz intercepted a wayward Dusan Vlahovic pass in his own half and sprinted forward to bend back Wojciech Szczesny’s gloves.
“After tonight’s game, there is little for me to say. We are in a moment where we seemed to be out of the negative period with these two victories, but we fell for it again. It’s a pity, as we did well for the first 20-25 minutes, then got deeper and deeper without even being forced into it,” Allegri told DAZN.
“We made a lot of misplaced passes and inevitably you pay for that.”
Juventus vice-president Pavel Nedved said Juve looked physically weak before kick-off and lacked determination, but the coach insists it is not just a fitness issue.
“I think it was psychological too. It’s not easy at the moment, we dropped a lot of points against the lower-mid table teams, then in these big clashes we needed more confidence.
“It is unfortunate that on both goals we conceded from our own mistakes. We just need to stay calm, roll our sleeves up and on Tuesday we must go to Maccabi Haifa with the mental strength to win that game.”
Allegri seems more worried after this setback than he had done before the break for international duty.
“It is strange, at a certain point we just stop playing and start to back down. After Leao hit the post, we started going backwards. And there are also some passes that are just impossible to get wrong.
“It’s not as if two good games can resolve all the problems. It was five against three on some of our attacks, we need to score goals in those situations. We’ve got to be more determined in the challenges and shake off our fear, as otherwise we won’t have the balance to go far this season. If we shake off the fear, we can turn things around.
“When you pass the ball backwards, the other side will push forward and don’t even need to press you that hard. We need to work on that and improve.”
PhD Mozart, conductor of 1G black hole dial up calcio is a genius. An astute reader of the game and good to know he made the excuse 4 days ago. Legend, scholar and master of covering one’s behind.
Allegri had clearly lost the players. Only took two games for him to bring the back to negativity! Neved has gone and now it’s time for Allegri!
Where did Nedved go?
What a sad lonely person you are to rip off the OG’s name and do it so poorly. Brilliant logo and should be trademarked to prevent knock off artists.
They never started to play to begin with…
what is this travesty…they barly make one or two scoring chcnaces?