Miralem Pjanic believes Juventus captain Gianluigi Buffon “is still the world’s number one”, and expects him to prove it against Lyon.
The goalkeeper made a notable blunder in Italy’s draw with Spain, and compounded that with another error against Udinese on Saturday.
“Buffon is our captain, I don’t think he’s going through a bad period,” Pjanic assured in the Press conference ahead of tomorrow’s Champions League match.
Miralem Pjanic believes Juventus captain Gianluigi Buffon “is still the world’s number one”, and expects him to prove it against Lyon.
The goalkeeper made a notable blunder in Italy’s draw with Spain, and compounded that with another error against Udinese on Saturday.
“Buffon is our captain, I don’t think he’s going through a bad period,” Pjanic assured in the Press conference ahead of tomorrow’s Champions League match.
“He’s still the world’s number one. In a career there are high points and low points, that’s normal, but Buffon is playing and talking with us as normal so I don’t think there’s anything to say.
“He’ll make the difference tomorrow too and prove he’s the world’s number one.”
Pjanic is a former Lyon player, and will face the French side at the new Parc OL tomorrow.
“I want to congratulate you on this beautiful stadium. I’m glad to be here, the years I spent in this city were an important step in my career, three years I remember very well.
“Six years have passed so it’s been a long time, I’ve improved a lot and had a steady growth which allows me to give the best of myself today.
“Nabil Fekir and Alexandre Lacazette? They’re definitely top-quality players, and tomorrow won’t be an easy match.
“It’s true that Lyon are having – or have had – a difficult period, but I know the players, the Coach and how things are here and usually these difficult times don’t last very long.
“That means tomorrow is a very difficult game for us, we have to give our best to qualify for the knockout stage.
“Fekir and Lacazette can cause problems for a lot of teams, but we’ll do our best to be more dangerous than them, we’ll do everything to qualify.”