DBasia.news – Juventus failed to advance far in the 2018-19 Champions League. Aurelio de Laurentiis, President of Naples, insinuated Juventus’ failure and believs Cristiano Ronaldo alone would not be able to win the Champions League himself.
Bianconeri’s trip this season ended prematurely in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Juventus were eliminated by a surprise team, Ajax Amsterdam, 3-2 on aggregate. Ronaldo’s two goals lost to three Ajax goals scored by David Neres, Donny van de Beek, and Matthijs de Ligt.
Juventus’ defeat under the care of Massimiliano Allegri’s was highlighted by many parties. As La Vecchia Signora is expected to be able to wipe out all titles this season after investing to purchase Ronaldo for more than 100 million euros from Real Madrid.
Ronaldo, 34, has won five Champions League titles and five Ballon d’Or awards. It’s reasonable that his existence is expected to be able to provide the last Champions League title achieved by Juventus in the 1995-96 season.
However, Juventus actually experienced a decline this season in terms of the trophy. Getting knocked out in the Coppa Italia and Champions League, Juventus’ hopes in winning the trophy this season is only in Serie A – after last January winning the Italian Super Cup.
Laurentiis uses Juventus’ failure as a moment to insinuate his rival. According to him, Ronaldo alone would not help Juve win the Champions League title, and emphasized the importance of playing collectivity.
“Cristiano Ronaldo did not help Juventus win the Champions League. (But) the team that took you to victory (won the trophy),” said De Laurentiis, quoted from Calciomercato.
In addition to commenting on the failure of Juventus, the Italian film producer also considered the Italian football is far behind from Italian clubs.
De Laurentiis made the Champions League quarter-final match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City the benchmark. The drama of seven goals was created in the second leg which took place at Etihad Stadium with the final result 4-3 for the victory of Man City – Spurs still escaped because of the 4-4 superior aggression away goal.
“Last night, watching the Manchester City-Tottenham’s match, is like a whole new world. I said to myself: this is football. Ancient Italy with their approach to playing,” De Laurentiis added.
“It seems like if in Italy, we don’t really enjoy our own games and we hide behind tactics. That’s the real danger when facing an English club,” he concluded.