17 February 2024
Coach Massimiliano Allegri and goalscorer Adrien Rabiot share their thoughts after Saturday evening's Verona-Juventus match-up at the Bentegodi:
MASSIMILIANO ALLEGRI
"I'm a realist. We've scored two points in four games, it takes a long time to build, and it takes just a moment to destroy it all. We have to reset, starting from today, going back to doing things with the right attitude and the right attention. Today I saw good things, but we drew, and we could have even lost. This evening when Verona went forward, they gave the feeling of being able to score; today we ran a lot but in a somewhat disorganised way, and this is what we need to go back to working on as we have done in recent months. If we don't win, it means that something is missing, and for example today that something was the game without the ball, because I repeat, today I often had the feeling that we could concede a goal. We gave everything, but winning or not depends on the effort you put into it. We cannot think and believe that we have achieved qualification for the Champions League just yet."
ADRIEN RABIOT
"We should have done more, we've dropped several points now. This evening we shouldn't have conceded a goal, we came back, it's true, but we started playing well only late in the second half. We need to find the compactness we had before: it's tough, we wanted to win this evening, but little by little we need to regain confidence and start bringing home the three points again, focusing on what we did well before. We have to fight for second place: we got here by earning a lot of points, and it's this strength that we need to find again."
