Unai Emery don’t lose your cool. His team visits Turin having put their level on the table. Juve are still favorites in the tie, but the yellow team is convinced that they can beat the Italian team. It is time to enjoy and show the level that the team is capable of acquiring. “We have come to stay. We want to continue standing and face a great rival”
How does the team arrive?
“We really want to because the team is very regular in this competition. In the first leg we were able to compete and recover from the first goal and we were able to turn it around. The second leg is not going to change. They are the favourites, They are contenders to win this Champions League, but we want to stay. It’s a nice and attractive challenge. We have the illusion of being protagonists. We are recovering some players, but we still don’t know if they will be at the beginning or later”.
Long game and calm
“We try to prepare a game to be competitive for the ninety minutes and be prepared in case there is extra time. We have to adapt to what the rival team proposes. Respond with the best collective game. All of this against a great rival who is going to put the The bar is very high. Juve hardly ever lose. They take advantage of the opposition’s mistakes a lot and have players capable of defining a game”.
What Juventus expect?
“Morata and Vlahovic are two very vertical players with a lot of goals and they have very offensive players on the outside and good players on arrival. We know that one of our weapons has to be defense. We must defend perfectly and Juventus will be more aggressive in everything. They realized in the first leg that it wasn’t going to be that easy.”
The level of Juventus
“Juve is one of the best teams in Europe, they tend to win more than lose and few teams hurt them. Even so, we must be optimistic within our possibilities”.
Souvenirs of Turin
“It brings back the memory of winning the EL with Sevilla and playing the Champions League with Sevilla and losing 2-0 where we had few options. And it brings back the memory of what the most successful team in Italy represents and that it is among the ten or five best teams in the world”.
