Max Allegri won't rest players tomorrow with a view to Wednesday's Champions League game, and warns Lazio they'll face ‘my best team’.
Juventus face consecutive decisive matches, as tomorrow evening's Serie A game pitches them against the second-placed Biancocelesti, before Wednesday sees them travel out to Monaco for the return leg in the European tournament.
Even so, their Coach ensures that it will not affect his decisions with the line-up.
Max Allegri won't rest players tomorrow with a view to Wednesday's Champions League game, and warns Lazio they'll face ‘my best team’.
Juventus face consecutive decisive matches, as tomorrow evening's Serie A game pitches them against the second-placed Biancocelesti, before Wednesday sees them travel out to Monaco for the return leg in the European tournament.
Even so, their Coach ensures that it will not affect his decisions with the line-up.
“Tomorrow I'll be deploying my best team, as always,” cautioned Allegri in today's Press conference. “Tomorrow's game is the most important one, we'll see about the one on Wednesday, and then the one next Sunday.
“It's hard to think that someone shouldn't play because they have been booked. He can play, and then if he picks up a yellow card he can skip the following game. Eventually he'll have to miss out on a match anyway.
“If you start calculating things this way you entangle yourself, because things always work out the other way around to the way you planned them.
“As for the transfer rumours, they're part of the game, but this is such a delicate moment of the season, as I said before, that there's no point in talking about them, nor do they bother us.
“We must focus on what we have to do, because we haven't won anything yet, so we have to think exclusively about our objectives.”
The Juventus head was asked whether the loss to Parma last Saturday would affect his talks with the team prior to tomorrow's match.
“I'll speak to the team before the game as I would before any other. But I'd like to specify that people saying our heads were in the clouds when we played against Parma are wrong. Absolutely wrong.
“We played in a surreal atmosphere, because when you play in Parma the environment is always surreal [in reference to the club's bankruptcy scandal], at 6pm, after playing a strong first half.
“Also, we had burned a great deal of energy on Tuesday, and we'd just turned around a Coppa italia result that seemed impossible.
“In football you've got to allow for situations like these. What matters most is not repeating them, and understanding who we are – let me say this for the third time – at such a crucial moment of the season.
“We haven't won anything yet, so let's take things one little step at a time so we can go all the way.”