TURIN (Reuters) – Juventus face an necessary take a look at within the battle for prime spot in Champions League Group H in opposition to Chelsea, Massimiliano Allegri stated on Monday, however the head coach admitted his facet are nonetheless struggling for targets for the reason that departure of Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Italians head to London having already certified for the last-16 with an ideal report after 4 video games, sitting three factors forward of the English Premier League facet.
However Chelsea, who suffered a 1-0 defeat to Juve in Turin in September, are aiming to knock Allegri’s facet off prime spot and will have report signing Romelu Lukaku again from harm to assist their trigger.
“Tomorrow we face off for first place in opposition to a staff that is on prime of the Premier League and gained the Champions League final season,” Allegri instructed a information convention.
“With Lukaku they play another way. With out him they’ve fewer reference factors and extra counter-attacking gamers. It will be an necessary take a look at for us.”
Juve have struggled domestically this season, profitable six of their 13 matches, together with a 2-0 victory over Lazio in Rome on Saturday, to take a seat eighth in Serie A.
Their prime scorer this season is Paulo Dybala, with six targets throughout all competitions, however Allegri stated that the Argentina worldwide’s involvement is uncertain as he continues his restoration from harm.
The coach demanded extra from his staff in assault as they proceed to wrestle for targets since final season’s Serie A top-scorer Ronaldo left for Manchester United within the low season.
“We should enhance our ending. We’re creating good probabilities and making errors with the ultimate ball,” Allegri stated.
“In Rome we ran dangers by not ending our probabilities after which permitting counter-attacks. We have scored 18 targets and conceded 15 (in Serie A), we have to discover extra targets as a staff.”
He added: “All over the place Cristiano has gone, he is at all times been the highest scorer. Now we have loads of gamers who can rating targets, however in the meanwhile we aren’t discovering them.”
(Reporting by Alasdair Mackenzie; Enhancing by Shrivathsa Sridhar)
