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Sporting is a team that has made seven wins and four draws in the last eleven games. They are young and well organized, their coach brought back the title after 19 years. We have to be careful and create the conditions to take the turn in Lisbon." This is the comment of Massimiliano Allegri on the eve of Juventus-Sporting Lisbon, on the field tonight at 21 at the Allianz Stadium in Turin. Allegri's men face the first leg of the Europa League quarter-finals, thanks to the victories obtained against Freiburg in the knockout round.
Allegri wants to keep the level of attention high in view of the double confrontation with the Portuguese: "Alex Sandro and Vlahovic are available, De Sciglio are not. Vlahovic's mining? He could do even 90 minutes." We would be crazy to take them lightly. They eliminated Arsenal who are leading the Premier League. He is a completely different Sporting from last time, he has more legs, in Europe we must never underestimate these situations."
The Bianconeri are serene, the coach is keen to emphasize: "At Juventus the pressure is always there. The team is solid with respect to the news that arrives or does not arrive, we must continue to work on the field. We must ensure that in May the calendar is filled, if we pass the round with Sporting we will have two semi-finals, we will see if we will be good to go to the final of the Italian Cup, then there will be the last of the championship. We think about the field, society to defend itself. Like it or not we are the second force in the championship. It must be clear to everyone, even to those who do not like it".
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Allianz Stadium, Turin