“We brought home a equally important. In the end, in one minute we gave away two easy balls, Szczesny was good.” Massimiliano Allegri breathe a sigh of relief afterwards Abraham’s missed opportunity in the 94th minute and he even manages to joke about it, despite being very angry at the time, leaving the pitch before the final whistle, throwing his jacket on the ground: “Seeing Abraham’s shot again I got scared, even though it was the replay”. “Now let’s think about Sunday’s race, Sunday is match ball”, he continued: by winning against Salernitana, in fact, Juventus would be guaranteed a place in the Champions League next season. “For the future the club will evaluate the squad, then there is an excellent base, also due to the characteristics of the individual players. Right now we are close to the Champions League and there is this beautiful Cup final to play.”
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Returning to parity with Roma, Allegri then commented: “We risked losing a match that we weren’t able to win. We had some opportunities, then in the last two minutes there was incredible ball management. We risked losing it when we had to keep the draw for the head-to-head advantage. Do you regret how the second half of the season went? There is. I was reflecting on this period where we only won two. Sometimes football is beastly, there are periods where things go well for you, and others where they go badly. After the defeats against Inter and Udinese we collapsed a bit. If you lose sight of the main objective and have a 12/14 point advantage over those behind you, you tend to slow down. It could have been done better but several negative coincidences came together.”