Juventus Coach Massimiliano Allegri assures there’s “no problem” with Paulo Dybala, despite no goals in his first five games of the season.
The Argentinian forward was a revelation last season, but is yet to get off the mark in the current campaign.
“I’ll have a look at him today,” Allegri shrugged in his pre-Cagliari Press conference.
Juventus Coach Massimiliano Allegri assures there’s “no problem” with Paulo Dybala, despite no goals in his first five games of the season.
The Argentinian forward was a revelation last season, but is yet to get off the mark in the current campaign.
“I’ll have a look at him today,” Allegri shrugged in his pre-Cagliari Press conference.
“Dybala played a lot of games last year and even on Sunday [against Inter] he played a good match. He’s lacking a goal right now, but he needs to stay calm because it can happen.
“This year is very important for him, because last year he had a year in crescendo and this season he has struggled a little bit, but that happens in the career of a footballer and above all over the course of a season.
“He just has to remain calm because he’s an extraordinary player, so I see no problem with Dybala.”
The Bianconeri conceded two goals following set pieces at the weekend, something which has rarely happened in recent years.
“It’s easy, just look at how we conceded the goals, it’s a matter of attention. It can happen that Juventus – well, it shouldn’t happen but it can – that Juventus go behind.
“I said that to get a positive result at San Siro, meaning a draw or a win, we’d have to play well on a technical level above all. We didn’t do that, and little episodes went against us.
“Our objective this year is to improve the level of our play, to improve the players who have arrived and get to March still competitive in the three competitions in which we play.
“So we can’t win the League or lose it now, the League is won on May 30. Even if we win tomorrow or we’d won at San Siro three, 12 or 15 points isn’t enough for the Scudetto.
“Wehave to be calm, take it game-by-game and we have a clear objective which is to get into the next round of the Champions League, trying to finishing top.
“Clearly tomorrow there will be a different reaction because we were defeated in Milan and got so much criticism so it’s normal that the team will have a reaction both in terms of anger and their play.
“As for saying we failed in the most important games, that’s absolutely not true.
“Looking at the reality of things, we could have eight points because we won against Lazio in Rome having had two shots on target and the lads did well.
“Then we lost a game in Milan that we didn’t deserve to lose. So we should have had eight points, we have nine points, meaning we’re a point up.
“We’ve played Inter, Sassuolo, Lazio and Fiorentina and we wanted 12 points but we got nine and I think that’s right, that’s what we deserved.
“Actually in terms of merit we could have one point less, so we look at the positives.”
Kwadwo Asamoah gave the ball away before Inter’s winner on Sunday, but Allegri isn’t just blaming the Ghanaian.
“It’s not Asamoah’s fault, it was a technical move to try and get us on the break but instead it came back at us and we conceded the goal.
“We can stand it, Asa shouldn’t beat himself up because he missed with that pass because it was a bland performance by the whole team.”
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