DBasia.news – Juventus failed to ensure the Serie A title in the 2019-2020 season after being defeated by Udinese with a score of 1-2 at the Dacia Arena on Friday (24/7). The Bianconeri manager, Maurizio Sarri, highlighted the appearance of his team.
Had led from Matthijs de Ligt’s goal in minute 42nd, Udinese turned things around in the second half through goals scored by Ilija Nestorovski (52′) and Seko Fofana (90+2′). This is Juve’s fifth defeat this season.
Juventus dominate possession of up to 61 percent with a total of 16 attempts and five on target, but only one resulted in goal. While Udinese scored two goals from four shots on target and 39 percent ball possession.
As a result of the last five Serie A matches Juve won only once when playing against Lazio (2-1) and the rest ended in two defeats and two draws. Juve have lost 18 points so far after being ahead in Serie A.
The defeat postponed the ninth successive Scudetto party of Juventus. If Atalanta wins Week 36 against AC Milan then they will cut the gap with Juve to three points. Maurizio Sarri, Juve’s coach, highlighted his team’s ‘strange’ performance after the league break due to the corona virus.
“It’s hard to find balance at the moment, because all players in each team are getting tired. We are also not that aggressive, but I believe the organization is more important than aggression at this time,” Sarri told Sky Sports Italia.
“This is more due to mental fatigue than physical, because we lost our composure after the equalizer.”
“The game is very strange after the lockdown, because inertia changes so quickly. We have to learn lessons from these games and try to maintain our fitness,” he added.
Furthermore, the former Chelsea manager also considered his team to lose playing organization and form of play during consistent against Udinese.
“That’s what happened recently, we lost our playing organization and also the form of the game,” Sarri complained.
“Our performance was good in the first half, conceding an equalizer and we wanted to win in any way, that’s why we were unorganized and lost. Our desire to win made us make a dangerous approach and we lost in 93 minutes because we wanted to win at all costs.” he explained.
In the next match in Week 36 Serie A Juventus will host Sampdoria at the Allianz Stadium on Monday (07/27) before playing the against Cagliari (30/07) and AS Roma (03/08) and Olympique Lyonnais (08 / 08).