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Giorgio Chiellini says wins over Genoa and Udinese provided the ‘fundamental shift’ in Juventus winning the Scudetto, the season’s ‘biggest objective’.
The Bianconeri are celebrating a third successive League title after Week 36’s results ensured their lead over second placed Roma was unassailable.
Sitting down for Google Hangout, defender Chiellini reflected on the current mindset in the dressing room, and the weight of their achievement this term.
“Certainly we are more calm than we were in February, when we were in the middle of the season,” Chiellini began today.
“We have achieved the most important objective of the year and we are definitely more relaxed.
“It was definitely the biggest goal at the beginning of the season, a difficult task, but to which we believed so much in.
“Then in being able to succeed with a season so exciting, with record numbers – we hope to be able to end the season well – it is definitely a great satisfaction.”
The 29-year-old was asked when the players realised they had won the League.
“Surely we did well not to believe too early, because there were some who had assigned it to us a month ago, even two months ago.
“Instead, we knew that Roma would win all their recent games. I believe that a fundamental shift was the victory at Genoa with the last minute goal from Pirlo, and then perhaps that in Udine, because it was one of the last occasions on which they could have hoped we would drop points.”
The Italy international picked out his best moment of the season and thought back to Week 18.
“Perhaps the victory over Roma, it was a crucial moment because they were five points behind, had not lost and were definitely convinced they could come to Turin to get a result.
“Instead, we won a difficult game, with an overwhelming result, perhaps a little too much, but it was a game that we wanted at all costs.”
Chiellini, who recently surpassed 300 appearances for the Old Lady, was asked to pick his most memorable game played for the club so far.
“Can I not say two? One was the victory in Madrid at the Bernabeu, in the year of Ranieri, because it was not very predictable.
“Home and away, we managed two wins against Madrid, it was a great thrill. Then, Cagliari-Juventus in Trieste, because after all these years, to win again was a unique experience, in an undefeated season, it was more than a dream come true, because even the dreamers could not have hoped for a season like that at the start.”