Alessio: 'Juve deserved win'

Assistant manager Angelo Alessio insists Juventus “absolutely deserved to win” in Copenhagen, but their Champions League hopes hang by a thread.

The Bianconeri have now managed just nine draws and a defeat from their last 10 European matches and were trailing in all three of the Champions League fixtures this season.

“We had so many chances, but were unable to score and in a game like this that complicates matters,” said Alessio after the 1-1 draw with Nordsjaelland.

“We lacked some grit in the first half, while after the break we did play our football. Towards the end we switched to a four-man defence, as Nicklas Bendtner and Sebastian Giovinco were backed by Mirko Vucinic to make the team more dangerous in attack.

“We certainly allowed our opponents too much in the first half, but came out of our shells in the second, created many opportunities and their goalkeeper had to perform several great saves.”

Juventus are now in a very dangerous position, as Shakhtar Donetsk lead Group E on seven points, followed by Chelsea on four and the Bianconeri with three.

“Clearly we have to win the next game in order to stay in the running and then get a result against the top two as well,” admitted Alessio.

“We have to accept the result, even if we absolutely deserved to win tonight.”

We don't deserve anything! It must all be won on the pitch and today we didn't win so a draw is what we deserved!

We deserved to win as much as Bendtner deserves to play in the first team. But he doesn't !

DeviAngel wrote:We deserved to win as much as Bendtner deserves to play in the first team. But he doesn't !

Did you see Bendtner play the Ball wide and then race back into the box for the cross which he even got to just coz he wanted to get on the end of it bad enough! I would like to see Bendtner and Vucinic start in our next league game!

inderbaby wrote:

DeviAngel wrote:We deserved to win as much as Bendtner deserves to play in the first team. But he doesn't !

Did you see Bendtner play the Ball wide and then race back into the box for the cross which he even got to just coz he wanted to get on the end of it bad enough! I would like to see Bendtner and Vucinic start in our next league game!

Yes I did and the 4-3-3 must be our formation in ucl this is not serie A and shitty teams so we can press them and they'll defend because they won't !

That's what I wanted to say. Against Nords and Chelsea we must go 4-3-3, we have to take the risk. We were much more dangerous with 3 strikers. Against Shakhtar we can stick to 3-5-2 because we are playing away.

The 4-3-3 is great. But Vucinic should be on the left so he can cut in as hes got a better shot than Gio and Gio use his pace to play as a traditional right footed right winger to give service to Bendtner. Also, theres no dropping Asamoah...so i guess hed have to play LB?