Juventus full-back Stephan Lichtsteiner says ‘heat, fatigue and bad luck’ are to blame for injury problems, but believes they are Supercoppa favourites.
The Switzerland international will face his former club Lazio in Shanghai on Saturday in the Supercoppa Italiana and thinks it will be hard for Juve to improve on last season.
“Heat, fatigue, bad luck are to blame,” he told Gazzetta dello Sport when asked about an injury crisis that has hit Giorgio Chiellini, Andrea Barzagli, Sami Khedira and Alvaro Morata.
Juventus full-back Stephan Lichtsteiner says ‘heat, fatigue and bad luck’ are to blame for injury problems, but believes they are Supercoppa favourites.
The Switzerland international will face his former club Lazio in Shanghai on Saturday in the Supercoppa Italiana and thinks it will be hard for Juve to improve on last season.
“Heat, fatigue, bad luck are to blame,” he told Gazzetta dello Sport when asked about an injury crisis that has hit Giorgio Chiellini, Andrea Barzagli, Sami Khedira and Alvaro Morata.
“If you add the high temperatures, 40 degrees in Turin, and double workouts, you understand that it’s easier to get hurt. But it's not anyone's fault.
“It will not be easy without three players, and three men, as important as [Carlos] Tevez, [Andrea] Pirlo and [Arturo] Vidal.
“It will be a complicated season and it's hard to do better – you should win the Champions League after the Scudetto and Coppa Italia.
“However, in Italy we start as favourites, although the others have strengthened – Inter, Milan, and especially Roma, who for years have been the main competition. They have often put us in difficulty.
"We don’t have messages to send and the season is long after Shanghai. We just want to raise this Supercoppa.”
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