MASSIMILIANO ALLEGRI
“First of all, I dedicate some thoughts to Sinisa Mihajlovic and Mario Sconcerti, and to their families. As for the match, it was a difficult one against a technical team, who are first in the Premier League. It wasn’t a great start, but good in defence and winning is always nice, especially in this stadium. Tonight's game confirms how Juve are working well in the youth sector, as we clearly have many good young players. Regardless of what has happened in recent weeks, we have a duty to be ready and we played a good game tonight, I'm happy.
“As for the players who were absent: Federico Chiesa has some muscular fatigue, but it's normal when you come back from a long injury, Paul Pogba has yet to return and train, whilst Leonardo Bonucci needs some more time, but it won't be long. On the 27th, the team will start working again, in addition to Chiesa, Juan Cuadrado and Mattia De Sciglio, the World Cup players will also gradually return, with the finalists be given a couple more days. With Filip Kostić and Weston McKennie having both just started again.”