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The Juventus coach is aiming for development ahead of a crucial month in the season.
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| Massimiliano Allegri, Juventus' coach, apologized for his team's performance against Chelsea in the Champions League on Tuesday and urged them to improve ahead of a crucial month in their season. Since Allegri returned to the helm in the close season, Serie A's most successful club has been a disappointment. |
Massimiliano Allegri, Juventus' coach, apologized for his team's performance against Chelsea in the Champions League on Tuesday and urged them to improve ahead of a crucial month in their season.
Since Allegri returned to the helm in the close season, Serie A's most successful club has been a disappointment. After 13 games, they are in ninth place, 11 points behind leaders Napoli.
Their season took a turn for the worse when they were defeated 4-0 by Chelsea, their worst defeat in all competitions since a 4-0 loss to AS Roma in Serie A in February 2004.
"We're sorry for the loss in London; we're Juventus, and it's never nice to give such a horrible first impression," Allegri said at a press conference on Friday, before of his team's weekend match against Atalanta.
"The squad played well in the first half, and the game remained well balanced until the 55th minute. We may have had a better first half than we did in Turin (when they beat Chelsea 1-0). After their second goal, we melted.
"Atalanta is a powerful squad that scores a lot of goals but also concedes a lot of goals, so we need to play well in both attack and defense." We must be methodical."
Atalanta, the visitors to Turin on Saturday, started the season hesitantly but have recently kicked into gear, regaining their scoring touch while going six games undefeated in the league.
Allegri, on the other hand, is looking ahead even farther as he attempts to turn things around in Turin.
"Tomorrow is a crucial match, but it is not decisive; we have a crucial month ahead of us," he continued.
"The next six games are really important. The issue is that we haven't had much success versus lesser clubs. The players were disappointed following their loss in London, but they practiced exceptionally well the day before.
"We need a broad strategy for improving individual players and the squad as a whole." We can't dwell on the past; we need to be in terrific form by March, as a new season will begin in March."
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