BRUGES (BELGIUM) (ITALPRESS) – “Our goal tomorrow is victory and to get it we will have to do very well. We will need a great game against a team that is doing well both in the league and in the Champions League.” Thiago Motta knows that the best Juve will be needed to get a result in Bruges: a point would be enough to mortgage the play-offs, but the Juventus coach does not want to settle for the fact that the Belgian outfit is unbeaten for 18 matches and at home, in Champions, has already beaten Aston Villa and Sporting. “But even away they have done well, they are a young team, with great energy, that plays good soccer, very organized defensively,” Motta continued, “But we have prepared ourselves, we need to give a great performance to get to the win. It is important to give continuity in performance and now in results. In the last game – the reference to the match with Milan – we got a deserved result after a great performance and we need to continue like this. Can this represent the turning point? I see a growth of the team since the beginning, despite injuries and changes to the squad and despite being a young team. We had so many good performances but the reward of victory had not come, which, however, gives enthusiasm to continue working.” The infirmary is now emptying (“We had difficulties almost from the beginning of the season, now apart from Bremer, Cabal and Milik everyone is available”), and McKennie, Yildiz and Conceicao are also recovered. Vlahovic, who was on the bench with Milan and entered in the final, could return as a starter but Motta does not get out of line: “Dusan is very well but our philosophy is always the same, it’s not the quantity of minutes but the quality that counts. If we will see again a mobile attack like with Milan and without Vlahovic? The one on Dusan was a technical choice but he can also be mobile because he can play, he can move, he can do perfectly what we saw with Milan.” In making the lineup Motta will in any case not be distracted by Saturday’s big match in Naples: “Our energies are all on tomorrow, our big goal is to win with Bruges. With two wins in the last two matches could we get into the top eight? For now let’s focus on Bruges, then we will think about Benfica and after these two games we will see where we are. “Teun Koopmeiners was also in the press conference. “It will still be a beautiful night and we want to win,” said the Dutchman.We will have to be good with the ball, defend aggressively.It will be a difficult game, they are a young team but with great energy, defending compactly. However, we have confidence and we want to win. In the last games it was better, we played with more aggressiveness, even in defense, and with more confidence in offense. The last win was good for morale, tomorrow is another game and another competition but it is important to continue like this. How much is left to be Atalanta’s Koopmeiners? It’s hard to make percentages, I know I have to do, and I want to do better, I want to help the team every day, in the game and in training. We had a lot of injuries, we are a team with a lot of new players and we had to get to know each other in order to be able to do better, also at the level of automatisms.”- photo Ipa Agency -(ITALPRESS).
