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Lazio defeated Celtic in the first round, which seems to confirm everyone’s speculation about UEFA-UEFA’s draw for Lazio is really good!
This directly saves them the energy of a Champions League game, so they can devote all their energy to the league.
Sure enough, Lazio won all the next three leagues.
Juventus was influenced by the Champions League. They won two games in three league matches, but drew one.
The one-point lead was overtaken by Lazio at the last moment, and they fell behind by one point …
After that, Juventus Club secretly complained about the result of UEFA’s lottery.
"They (Lazio) beat Celtic 4-0 in the first leg, so they don’t have to think about the next second leg. And we have a game against Barcelona next week … "
Juventus coach Prandelli complained after being drawn by AC Milan.
He blamed this on the opponent he met in the lottery.
Juventus and Barcelona, this is really a bit bad luck.
Juventus didn’t play very well in the group stage, so in the end, although the group qualified, they got the second place in the group, and then they got together with Barcelona, which was the first in the group.
In the first leg, Juventus beat Barcelona 1-0 at home, but this 1-0 victory obviously failed to reassure Juventus.
To put it bluntly, winning only one goal at home, no matter who the opponent is, is a failure. Even the stronger the opponent, the deeper the failure.
Juventus won only one goal in Barcelona at home, which means they will go to Camp Nou, Barcelona’s home in the second leg.
This difficulty is really too great.
Prandelli naturally doesn’t want his team to be eliminated in the last 16 of the Champions League.
But Barcelona’s strength is too strong …
So he had to give up the league for a while and devote himself to the Champions League.
Before the game against Barcelona, Prandelli also sent a rotation lineup with young players as the main players, despite facing an old-fashioned team like AC Milan.
Fortunately, today’s AC Milan’s strength is declining rapidly, otherwise Juve may not even get a draw.
If Juventus’ opponent in the Champions League quarter-finals was not Barcelona, but a slightly stronger opponent, it might be a different story now.
Juventus can still keep ahead of Lazio in the league.
Although it’s only one point.
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Prandelli said, winning naturally won’t miss this excellent opportunity to play psychological warfare.
He quickly responded to Prandelli’s words: "Prandelli complained about the lottery result? I really don’t know what to complain about. This kind of complaint can only make him look like a child who can’t afford to lose. Juventus are now overtaken by us not because they are tied to Barcelona. But because they were defeated by us in the previous contest, and the four-point lead became one point. I think Prandelli is just making excuses for Juventus’ weakness after being defeated by us. "
Then he mentioned how Lazio handled the same situation.
"To say the result of the draw, no one is qualified to say Lazio. We were assigned to the death group, so what? We finished first in the group, and we always kept the pressure on Juventus in the league, and finally surpassed them at this time … Prandelli might as well learn from Lazio instead of complaining about the lottery result. "
This remark is very impolite, and the evidence given is also very powerful. Everyone is willing to believe what he said as soon as he listens.
Everyone has seen Lazio’s performance in the death group. Compared with the tenacious Lazio, Juventus is really weak.
In this way, Lazio is a pure man who never flinches and goes forward no matter what difficulties he faces. What about Juventus? Just a kid who just goes home to his mother crying.
The gap is too big, the contrast is clear …
Prandelli was naturally outraged by Chang Sheng’s remarks.
But he doesn’t have time to pay attention to winning because he has to deal with Barcelona.
However, he has made up his mind that when Barcelona is eliminated, he will give Chang Sheng a good look and show Chang Sheng who the real pure man is!
Before the game against Barcelona, Prandelli also used his winning words to stimulate and encourage his players.
Tell them not to let such an annoying guy as Chang Sheng look down on them.
With the image of winning in the hearts of these Juventus players, Prandelli believes that his approach is effective.
Sure enough, Juventus’ away game in Barcelona was quite tenacious.
They stood on the defense and held on to the counterattack.
In the face of Barcelona’s attack, they refused to budge.
Barcelona couldn’t do anything about Juventus in the first 66 minutes.
Their attack could not break Juventus’ goal at all.
However, Barcelona managed to catch a defensive omission of Juventus in the 67th minute and scored a goal.