After the loss to Porto, Juventus continues to emerge from the crisis: last night (Tuesday), the old lady defeated Spezia 0: 3 at home, and maintained some eye contact with Inter and AC Milan above her in the table – after 24 rounds, she is in third place, seven points from first place.
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Cristiano Ronaldo has completed a fourth goal in the last three games, and Juventus can prepare for the two challenging tasks ahead: Lazio at home on Saturday, and above all – the rematch against Porto in the Champions League quarter-finals, where they will try to come back from a 2-1 deficit to qualify for the quarter.
The one who definitely came out of the game smiling was Albero Murata. The Spanish striker returned to play tonight after missing the game against Verona due to injury, came in in the 61st minute and already within one minute found the net – for the first time in more than a month. “I missed scoring goals,” he said at the end, “but even more I missed feeling strong. I haven’t felt good in the last three weeks, so to be honest … I had to go back, because we had no options.”
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“This is not an easy season, we play every six days and a lot of players are absent for a long time. These are not excuses, but reality.” As for the chances of the championship, he also admitted that they are not great: “We work for the goal, but if we do not win, we will bless the winners. As long as there is a mathematical chance, everything is given on the field.”
also Andrea Pirlo, Coach Yuba, addressed the great difficulty of the team at this time: fatigue. “We started slowly (Juventus scored the first only in the 62nd minute) mainly due to physical fatigue. It can happen when you have so many games with the same players,” Pirlo told Sky at the end. “We tried to control the game, and when we managed to make substitutions and put in more fresh legs, we were also sharper, and then we got into our situations. We have an excellent squad, but unfortunately I can not say I made the changes I wanted. If I had a rotation, we would probably win more games “.
And what about the odds? Pirlo, it turns out, is a little more optimistic than Murata: “In the end, the gap is only in the direct games between us. It will be a long chase, Inter are a team that has been playing together for two years, we started again this season. And yet, we will be there – until the end.”