Juventus assistant manager Marco Landucci admits their loss to Benfica may have affected them psychologically.
He made this comment after the Bianconeri suffered a humiliating 1-0 loss to Monza in Serie A yesterday.
Juve had been hopeful they would earn all the points from the fixture, but it was not to be.
It means they have won none of their last five matches and three have ended in losses.
It is an embarrassing run of form for a team that wants to win the league title at the end of this campaign.
However, the loss against Portuguese giants Benfica may have affected their confidence, reckons Landucci.
He said, as quoted by Football Italia:
“Perhaps the defeat to Benfica was more of a psychological blow than we realised, but again, these are excuses and excuses are of no help. We just have to shut up and work hard.
“Obviously, nobody is happy right now, but in order to emerge from this situation, we can only work hard and do better. We seem to start well and then stop playing, so the only method is to work and everyone raises their game to work in the same direction.”
Juve FC Says
This is one of the worst excuses we can receive for losing to Monza.
Benfica and the boys from Brianza are on different football levels, and this game offered us a good chance to get back to form.
However, we have failed to take it and now we need to come back from the international break in better shape.
lol anyone but who`s to blame. #AllegriOut before there`s nothing left to save
Another excuse. Can they jus keep quiet! Why the delay is sacking all of them i.e. Allegri and all his assistants, they re all the same
did anyone tell agnelli that using a dinosaur for a rebuild `project` was disastrous. Like someone on AJC i think yesterday said, Big Clubs don`t need projects, they have a structure in place for success. agnelli can be blamed for the ronaldo and pogba social media experiments and failures, although Pogba has gone somewhere worse now, and of course the superleague fiasco where they hadn`t even locked down the clubs to agree to it and not thought it out. agnelli is as much of a disaster as allegri.
Omg, this is beyond embarrassing. The Juve of old would never reach for making pathetic excuses.
We have the cattle. We don’t have the desire, system and attacking intent to intimidate other clubs like we once did.
Losing to a newly promoted Monza, a team that was already proving to be completely out of its depth in Serie A, was unforgivable.
Time to stop talking and act – starting with the dismissal of Allegri. Negotiate to minimise the financial damage if possible, but if we don’t, we risk a self-inflicted, long term return to mediocrity.
Bullshit.
By the way let them work, but nothing will change.