LECCE, ITALY – DECEMBER 01: Ante Rebic of Lecce scores his staff’s equalizing aim through the Serie A match between Lecce and Juventus at Stadio Through del Mare on December 01, 2024 in Lecce, Italy. (Photograph by Maurizio Lagana/Getty Photographs)
Mattia Perin insists Juventus have ‘essentially modified philosophy’ below Thiago Motta and, however reveals they agreed with Lecce to not play if Edoardo Bove was at risk.
This was not a traditional day in Italian soccer, because the night kick-off Fiorentina-Inter was deserted after 17 minutes when Bove collapsed and was taken to hospital.
Only a few minutes earlier than kick-off, Fiorentina launched a press release confirming that Bove was aware and respiration autonomously in hospital with no acute cardiological or neurological injury.
“We had all gathered and agreed that if we didn’t have reassuring information from Florence, then we didn’t wish to play tonight,” Perin advised DAZN.
“We wished to guarantee that he was out of hazard earlier than agreeing to play. Now we want him all one of the best for a speedy restoration and might’t wait to face him as an opponent once more, as a result of I do know he’s hyper-competitive and he’s fantastic to play towards.”
Perin trusts Juventus are on proper path
Juventus had been clawed again to a 1-1 attract stoppages by Lecce on the Stadio Through del Mare after Ante Rebic cancelled out the deflected Andrea Cambiaso opener.
Nonetheless, when requested if the 9 first staff gamers who didn’t make the journey had been making a fatigue problem, Perin shook it off.
“It’s a incontrovertible fact that we’re lacking these gamers, however we additionally don’t like to speak about it or really feel sorry for ourselves. There are a lot of younger lads who arrived and are proving themselves. It is a staff constructed with 23-24 gamers who can all substitute one another.
“We had come right here aiming to win, not as a result of we’re Juve, however as a result of we’re sure that we’re on a profitable path. It’s a manner of enjoying that will increase our likelihood of victory and we place confidence in that,” assured Perin.
“Lecce deserve credit score for the best way they fought again within the second half this night, however we’ve got essentially modified philosophy and we belief in that imaginative and prescient.”
The Bianconeri have now drawn every of their final three video games between Serie A and the Champions League, which within the period of three factors for a win is starting to wreck their prospects.
They’re already six factors adrift of Serie A leaders Napoli, regardless of being unbeaten within the event to this point this season, having drawn eight of their 14 rounds.
“We’ve got to maintain going. Issue is a chance, we have to show that Juve can maintain out regardless of the accidents, and this creates a way of respect in our opponents,” continued Perin.
“We expertise this as a chance, I see it within the eyes of my teammates through the week in coaching. We are able to’t at all times do it, however there may be the good want to show we’re on a profitable path.”
