A month after his eleventh injury, Paul Pogba He returns to the Juventus squad for tomorrow’s game in Turin against Sporting de Portugal, which amounts to the first leg of the Europa League quarterfinals.
“Pogba was called up. Tomorrow we will see more about his physical condition and if he can play”, he advanced today Massimiliano Allegri, coach of Juventus, in the pre-match press conference. “He has done some non-stop training with the team and it will be important to have him available for the latter part of the season.”
Pogba injured his adductor on March 12 during training. It was the last setback for the French midfielder since then suffered a knee injury in the preseason, for which he underwent surgery in early September, and did not play until February 28 after starting his second spell at Juventus last summer at the end of his Manchester United contract.
His last game was played on March 5 against Roma at the Olímpico. when he played the last 15 minutes. Four days later Allegri sent him off for the Europa League round of 16 match against Freiburg as a disciplinary measure after arriving the night before Juve’s concentration.
Allegri defended Vlahovic
Allegri also defended the Serbian today dusan vlahovicwho is not going through his best moment: “It also happened to Cristiano Ronaldo in his early days at Juve. Everyone is criticized and has bad times. It’s part of the journey. Vlahovic must stay calm and keep working.”
Regarding the tie, the Juve coach declared that “we would be crazy if we underestimated Sporting de Portugal, who eliminated Arsenal in the previous round. At this point in the competition there are only good teams.”
“The Portuguese are unbeaten in their last eleven games, you have to respect a technical and organized team. Their coach (Rúben Amorim) is great and in 2021 he will return the Portuguese title to Sporting after many years,” added Allegri.
Own the Juve season
Finally, he proved the season of a Juve that was in the semifinals of the Coppa Italia (they drew 1-1 at home against Inter in the first leg of the semifinals), in the quarterfinals of the Europa League and if not for the fifteen-point sanction it will be second in the Serie A table.
“We will try to fill the calendar in May, we will see if we are lucky and we can go through the Europa League and the Coppa. Then we will have another nine league games, where we added 59 points (not counting the 15 deducted by sanction) and for a while we were the second force, like it or not”, Allegri was sentenced.
Source: La Verdad
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