Juventus is preparing to play the difficult away match in Rome with three points and Felipe Melo. The Brazilian recovered from the muscular strain and is available for Ferrara who is happy to be able to count on him: «Felipe is coming from a period in which he played a lot and we have tried to make him re-gain his optimal condition. From a character point of views he has had no difficulty with fitting into the environment since he is very open and available. Obviously, since we are at the beginning he must still integrate perfectly into our way of playing but he is an important point of reference in that position. You accuse him of having lost some important balls in delicate zones during the pre-season. It is true but he is an intelligent lad and he understood that at certain moments it is better not to risk».
The match against Roma will see the bianconeri face a team in excellent health notwithstanding the defeat suffered during the first match day: «Roma are ahead of us when it comes to preparation. I believe that before 4 or 5 championship matches are played one cannot see the optimum condition and this goes for all the teams. Against Roma it will be a nice match, in an important stadium, against a team that perhaps conceded a few goals but also scored many. We have maximum respect for Roma and for Spalletti. It is a historical rival, which in the last years expressed great game play. It is certainly not the best of things to play against them in the second match day but when the fixtures where announced I immediately declared: It will be difficult for us but I think even Roma would have liked to avoid Juventus at the start. It is clear that it is a delicate away match against a great team. It would be very important to go there and try to win, not so much for the table, but because a victory would be a reasonable push for us. We are conscious of the strength of our team but it is the field that must give us answers and if tomorrow they had to be positive it would important for our self-esteem».
Roma-Juventus is also a duel between Totti and Del Piero, the last two standard bearers of Italian football: «Totti and Del Piero are two symbols and it is nice that there are this type of champions who are attached to one jersey for the whole of their career. I think it is a positive message to youngsters, a good advert».
Going back to the athletic condition, that of Juventus is improving even though in the second half of the match against Chievo some bianconeri seemed to be a bit tired: «This is because I fielded players with very little match time in their legs. I am thinking of Poulsen but also Tiago who in the last 15 days trained very little. I needed him, but under normal circumstances I would have rested him because he had trained very little lately».
Apart from Salihamidzic, Zebina and Sissoko Ferrara has practically the whole team available and will have to take a few important decisions especially when it comes to the attack: «I have four high level attackers at my disposal and I will have to make a few choices but I haven’t decided yet. On the other hand, after the international break we will not have anymore tranquil weeks up to December and at that point I will have to manage the strength of the players available. This goes for all the positions. Today I spoke with other players who are living a competition and I told them I will be needing everyone because after the break we will constantly have times when we need to recover those who played most. The only way of doing this is being able to count on all the members of the squad. Then there are obviously players with more experience and I can’t possibly have all the players playing for the same amount of time. It wouldn’t be honest to say so».
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The match against Roma will see the bianconeri face a team in excellent health notwithstanding the defeat suffered during the first match day: «Roma are ahead of us when it comes to preparation. I believe that before 4 or 5 championship matches are played one cannot see the optimum condition and this goes for all the teams. Against Roma it will be a nice match, in an important stadium, against a team that perhaps conceded a few goals but also scored many. We have maximum respect for Roma and for Spalletti. It is a historical rival, which in the last years expressed great game play. It is certainly not the best of things to play against them in the second match day but when the fixtures where announced I immediately declared: It will be difficult for us but I think even Roma would have liked to avoid Juventus at the start. It is clear that it is a delicate away match against a great team. It would be very important to go there and try to win, not so much for the table, but because a victory would be a reasonable push for us. We are conscious of the strength of our team but it is the field that must give us answers and if tomorrow they had to be positive it would important for our self-esteem».
Roma-Juventus is also a duel between Totti and Del Piero, the last two standard bearers of Italian football: «Totti and Del Piero are two symbols and it is nice that there are this type of champions who are attached to one jersey for the whole of their career. I think it is a positive message to youngsters, a good advert».
Going back to the athletic condition, that of Juventus is improving even though in the second half of the match against Chievo some bianconeri seemed to be a bit tired: «This is because I fielded players with very little match time in their legs. I am thinking of Poulsen but also Tiago who in the last 15 days trained very little. I needed him, but under normal circumstances I would have rested him because he had trained very little lately».
Apart from Salihamidzic, Zebina and Sissoko Ferrara has practically the whole team available and will have to take a few important decisions especially when it comes to the attack: «I have four high level attackers at my disposal and I will have to make a few choices but I haven’t decided yet. On the other hand, after the international break we will not have anymore tranquil weeks up to December and at that point I will have to manage the strength of the players available. This goes for all the positions. Today I spoke with other players who are living a competition and I told them I will be needing everyone because after the break we will constantly have times when we need to recover those who played most. The only way of doing this is being able to count on all the members of the squad. Then there are obviously players with more experience and I can’t possibly have all the players playing for the same amount of time. It wouldn’t be honest to say so».
http://www.juventus.it/site/eng/NEWS_newsseriea_AC267F571554424CA5B90455BD20AAD1.asp
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