Allegri: “Juventus are second in the standings, I would be a coward if I left”

Juventus were beaten 4-1 by Empoli and after deducting 10 points, the situation is now very difficult to qualify for the new year’s Champions League groups.

Max Allegri said immediately after the game that it was very difficult for them to go out and play when they found out about the point deduction ten minutes beforehand, although that shouldn’t be an excuse. At the same time, he stressed that the team’s future will also depend on whether or not he participates in Europe in the new year, while stressing that he would be a coward if he left the team.

What Max Allegri said in detail: “We should not look for facts or excuses. We are Juventus. We’re used to winning, or at least fighting to win. Now they have two games left. On Sunday we have a home game against AC Milan.

Of course it’s a strange situation that the decision was made ten minutes before the start of the game. We conceded a goal at the first opportunity and then another. We had the opportunity to cut corners quickly, but we couldn’t.

This does not explain the spiritual destruction. For now, all we have to do is pull the plug and accept defeat. Before the game we had 69 points and were second overall“.

On the fact that qualifying for the Champions League will be difficult: “I cannot blame the children because I assure you it was not an easy situation. The next few days won’t be easy either, because we were kicked out of the Europa League, then we had this news 10 minutes before kick-off, while we had been deducting points for three months, which they got back.

That’s no excuse, but this is undoubtedly an unnatural season for us and yet the team gained 69 points“.

On whether he thinks Juventus should have done a better job legally: “You won’t get any further with ifs and buts. Tonight we could have put ourselves in a position to ‘challenge’ Milan for a place in the Champions League.

We seem to have been playing these games since January. We have Atalanta and Roma ahead of us, we have to try to take six points and basically stay second in the standings, which is what we are.

I can assure you that the team did the best they could under the circumstances. It was a surreal situation, if anything the team performed better than expected“.

For the future of the team and his own: “We have to talk to the club and see what competition we’re going to play in. I don’t know if they’ll let us play in the Europa League, we’ll have to wait and see.

Of course, when you’re out of competition, you need to make a plan. We can’t say that Juventus will win again next season, but the most important thing is that we all agree on the difficulties. If I leave Juventus now I would be a coward. I don’t tell the team anything“.

And finally he concluded by saying: “I want to make one thing clear: Juventus are second in the table, we won it on the pitch. We accept everything but I really hope it will be solved once and for all. It’s a continuous drip. Just let them decide where you want Juventus to be, tell us and we’ll sort it out“.