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KIEV – Andrea Pirlo’s first press conference as a coach in the Champions League. Zero emotion as always and a display of tranquility. Here are your answers
Will it be a challenge between student and teacher?
“Yes, in a way yes. Lucescu was my first coach, he took me to the first team at 15 and made his debut at 16. Good memory, I will always thank him. We hear from time to time: he is a great coach and a good person. Tomorrow we will challenge ourselves “
You are famous for the phrase: I went to sleep, ate, played a little playstation on the night I won the World Cup. Do you have the same schedule for tomorrow?
«Tomorrow I’ll do what Lucescu will do, I think: I’ll sleep, I’ll eat, I’ll come here to play. This time I will not play on the Playstation, but I do not change my habits much.
How can Juventus play without Cristiano Ronaldo?
“CR7 unfortunately has Covid and will be absent. But we have other players who can play in that position, like Morata who did in Crotone. Tomorrow we will decide the rest of the attack.”
You always give the appearance of great serenity: does even the Champions League leave you unmoved or do you feel something that excites you?
«I’m calm, because unfortunately I can’t play anymore and that’s why I leave a little more tension for the players. I can’t wait to start because it will be my first game as a coach in the Champions League. But above all because in these competitions winning the first of the group is essential to have more security in the rest of the group. And so, as he was a footballer, he is also a coach: a game to win. We are calm, we know what we have to do and that it is a fundamental game.
There was talk of Dybala’s discontent at not being used in Crotone. Would it be destabilizing if he didn’t play tomorrow?
“I spoke with Dybala yesterday, as with everyone else. He was a bit angry because he did not enter on Saturday, but he is inactive for three months, in the national team he spent three days in the room with an intestinal virus with antibiotics, on Friday he trained only partially with us. In Crotone I wanted it to do a few minutes, but unfortunately we were ten and it was not possible to insert it. He hasn’t had a minute yet, sooner or later he will have to enter the field, let’s see what to do tomorrow.
In Europe, almost all teams have a director, Juventus does not and it shows a bit in the flow of the game, do you think this can be felt during this competition?
“We have four full-time midfielders, no one is a midfielder, but with two midfielders in that position we are perfectly fine and with the type of midfielder we have, two midfielders I think is the best solution.”
Lucescu was his teacher: they know each other well, how can this affect tomorrow’s game?
“Know his football ideas, tomorrow we will try to get into difficulties.”
See this Ramsey?
“He is better, he trained in the last two days, we hope to have him available.”
Did you say in Crotone that you are sure to win the Scudetto?
“Maybe the translation went wrong in Ukraine, I didn’t say that we will definitely win the Scudetto, but that we are a team built to win. We will try to do it, as in all other competitions, if we are good we will succeed. We are a team under construction, we must have time to grow and improve ».
Where can you best implement Dybala? Could it be an alternative to Ramsey, between midfield and attack?
“Dybala is fundamental for us. He is a champion and I do not know that I became a coach. He is not playing because he has never been well and has not been able to train. It’s not at the top yet. for the position on the field he can play anywhere, because then the good guys find the position on the field for themselves. for me it has to be as close to the door as possible, but even between the lines it can do well.
Technical options or billing?
“I’ll see who is better. We have the ideal players to make a great game.
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