Allegri: ‘Not about stopping MSN’

By Football Italia staff

Juventus Coach Massimiliano Allegri says he’s more concentrated on his team scoring than stopping Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar.

The Bianconeri will meet Barcelona and their much-vaunted ‘MSN’ front-three in the Champions League final tomorrow, but the tactician is focused on his own side.

“Messi-Neymar-Suarez, the talk is always ‘how do you stop them, how do you stop them’,” Allegri said in the pre-match Press conference.

“We’ll have to play very well, and score, because it’s difficult to see it finishing 0-0.

“Tomorrow night, one of the teams will win the treble, hopefully it’s us. I congratulate [Barcelona Coach] Luis Enrique, it’s not easy, it’s never easy for the big teams, even if it looks that way from the outside.

“He struggled at Roma, but that’s normal, given he was coming in as an outsider. You could see he had good ideas, and the right ones.”

The Coach also confirmed Andrea Barzagli would replace the injured Giorgio Chiellini, provided he is fit enough after an injury lay-off of his own.

“I’m sorry about what happened to Chiellini. We’ve lost a guy who has gone all the way in the Champions League, and playing very well.

“Fortunately we have Barzagli and [Angelo] Ogbonna. If, as seems to be the case, Barzagli is fine, then Barzagli will play.

“If Barzagli has some difficulty, Ogbonna will play.”

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