Juventus’ defeat to Torino on Sunday will help the team to grow, according to Coach Massimiliano Allegri.
The Old Lady lost to their city rivals for the first time in 20 years at the weekend, but Allegri says the young players in the squad will benefit from the experience.
“I think Sunday’s games is part of the further growth of this team,” Allegri said in his Press conference ahead of the Fiorentina game.
Juventus’ defeat to Torino on Sunday will help the team to grow, according to Coach Massimiliano Allegri.
The Old Lady lost to their city rivals for the first time in 20 years at the weekend, but Allegri says the young players in the squad will benefit from the experience.
“I think Sunday’s games is part of the further growth of this team,” Allegri said in his Press conference ahead of the Fiorentina game.
“In this squad there are some very young lads including [Alvaro] Morata, [Stefano] Sturaro, [Roberto] Pereyra and [Kingsley] Coman.
“I think games like this can teach these lads that when you play for a big team you always play to win, so you have to be in the habit of playing to win every two or three days.
“It’s different to playing for a small club where you play once a week. As with all things, it takes time and a period of growth.
“On Sunday the strikers were criticised, but I think if you look at Morata, he’s in his first year in Italy, he’s a 22-year-old lad who wasn’t a starter at Real Madrid and now finds himself in the limelight at Juventus.
“It’s normal that there will be periods where he does well, and others where he does less well, until he finds the right balance to produce on a consistent basis.
“This applies to everyone else too, it’s a normal growth process for any individual player, especially a young one, when they arrive at a massive club.”
The Bianconeri face a first Champions League semi-final since 2003 on May 5, but Allegri warns the players must be entirely concentrated on Fiorentina tomorrow.
“I think the players are thinking about the game tomorrow, not Cristiano Ronaldo. We have to play one game at time, we can’t play them all together.
“We can’t play the match against Real Madrid today or tomorrow, we have to play it on May 5.
“We have to prepare well for the match tomorrow night, because it’s harder to work with defeats weighing on you, and it takes away a little bit of certainty.
“So we have to think about tomorrow, and try to improve what we’re doing, the things we started doing on July 16.
“We’re getting to the end of the season, and we’re fighting on every front, so we have to make sure we don’t stop working and we must try to improve the things we need to improve.”