Juventus to unleash Del Piero

Juventus boss Antonio Conte has confirmed that Alessandro Del Piero will start in “the most important match of the season” against Milan on Tuesday.

Del Piero’s 18 appearances so far this term have mainly come from the bench, but the 37-year-old will get a chance in the semi-final of the Coppa Italia against Milan.

“Del Piero will play, he adds something to this team,” Conte said on Monday with his side holding a 2-1 advantage from the first leg in Milan. “I expect a lot from him and Juve.


“It is a game which will allow us the possibility of winning a trophy. Tomorrow we'll play our most important game of the season, but I hope that there are even more important ones to come.”

Despite the high profile nature of the tie, Conte confirmed that he will keep faith with Coppa ‘keeper Marco Storari instead of Gigi Buffon.

“Storari will certainly play as he offers a lot of stability. I would also like to thank [third-choice Alex] Manninger, someone who I class as fundamental to the dressing room.”

Juve and Milan are currently battling for the Scudetto, but the Old Lady tactician insists that is a separate fight.

“Tuesday’s match has nothing to do with the Italian championship. The result won’t affect any of the two teams in terms of the Scudetto.

“I’m not interested in what is going through the minds of those at Milan. I’m only interested in what I need my players to understand.

“At this point in time it is important to get the maximum out of everything, then we’ll see where that will take us.

“If I have no regrets in June then it will mean that we couldn’t have done any more.”

Conte has reverted to the 4-3-3 system in recent weeks, but he’s failed to rule out a change in shape at the Juventus Stadium.

“The 4-3-3 and 3-5-2 are relatively interchangeable. I can also use them during the same game. The attitude is the most important thing.

“For us, during this time of reconstruction, it would be important to take home this trophy.”

Juventus have not won the Coppa Italia since 1994-95.

Juventus possible: Storari; Caceres, Chiellini, Bonucci; Lichtsteiner, Vidal, Pirlo, Marchisio, Pepe; Del Piero, Vucinic.

ADP should play. Not partnering Boriello though.


He deserves to be played in the cup, not just because of his legacy but let's face it he is still one of our best players technically.

Matri has small injury he won't play he has small concussion

TomJuve wrote:]ADP should play. Not partnering Boriello though.


He deserves to be played in the cup, not just because of his legacy but let's face it he is still one of our best players technically.

Thought the exact same thing tbh! I would like to see a ADP and Quags upfront, we'd score some beautiful goals with them two upfront.

Don't know how well it would work but I see no reason why they it wouldn't. Quags doesn't ALWAYS need support to score as we all know he has one of the best long ranged shots in Calcio and same goes with ADP they can both create a goal out of nothing.. Just not consistently which sucks!

Conte made me angry for not letting ADP play after 4-0 ... also an arabic commentator said it

Del piero

dont leave us......

juveman17 wrote:Del piero

dont leave us......

not like he really had a choice.

anyway glad to see him playing, but the fact that he's playing adp with borriello just tells me that "I'm not playing ADP cuz I have confidence in him, I wanna play ADP to test our backup strikers"

which seems like an insult to me

^^I will lol if he pulls a super strike just like the one against Roma.

i will be pissed in the end if he only scores one goal with no playing time in the serie a for the rest of the season