Mister Allegri and Daniele Rugani both provided their thoughts on tomorrow evening’s game against Ajax, stating the importance of such an outing.
The Bianconeri will soon be coming out onto the field to the tune of the Champions League anthem, when they take on Ajax Amsterdam at Johan Cruijff ArenA, kick-off at 21:00.
Allegri will have to make do without Giorgio Chiellini and Emre Can due to injury, but he has welcomed back the return of both Cristiano Ronaldo and Sami Khedira to the team.
Here’s what he had to say:
TOMORROW’S FORMATION
“Cristiano has trained well with the team. He will start tomorrow night. One of Sami Khedira or Rodrigo Bentancur will start in midfield tomorrow night.
CONDITION OF THE SQUAD
“Daniele Rugani is one of the best young players in Italy and in Europe. Emre Can was in good form and I hope to have him at my disposal for the return leg. Rodrigo Bentancur is also going good at the moment. Douglas Costa has recovered and he’s someone who could make a big impact across both games. I’m disappointed not to have Cuadrado available. Maybe in the future we could introduce a ‘wild card’ for the Champions League squad list. Paulo Dybala trained very well this morning. His mental level is growing, when he’s on-form he’s one of the best players at Juventus and in the world. Bernardeschi played well on Saturday. He needs to not let his head drop and become even more decisive.”
AJAX AS OPPONENTS
“Ajax are a strong team. They eliminated Real Madrid and played on a par against Bayern. As always a match like Ajax-Juve is an important game. It will be an open match and we will have to be very focused. Ajax play in a different way to Atletico Madrid. They are a very aggressive team and it’s going to be a physical match, we need to score an away goal. We have prepared for Ajax-Juve by focusing on our opponent’s strengths. We will have to go for their goal a lot.”
