Pallotta: ‘I hope Juventus go through’

By Football Italia staff

Roma President Jim Pallotta hopes Juventus can emulate his team against Real Madrid tonight - “we’re all in this together”.

The Giallorossi pulled off an incredible comeback against Barcelona last night, overturning a 4-1 first leg defeat to win 3-0 and go through on away goals.

The Old Lady has a similar mountain to climb in the Bernabeu tonight, but the American owner will be cheering Juve on.

“If you think you can come back against Barcelona you might have a few screws loose!” Pallotta joked, speaking to reporters this morning.

“I hoped the team would come out and play the way I knew they could play and see how the chips would fall, more than anything else.

“I know the guys can play - look at how we played against Chelsea and stuff like that - we know we can put it together, you just have to execute it for 90 minutes.

“So I was hoping more than anything else. I can’t tell you that I walked in there like ‘oh we got this game’, but I’ve never seen the guys play so well, just for [the whole] 94 minutes.

“I’d like to see Juventus do the same thing and win, it’s great for Italian football. As soon as we won, Andrea [Agnelli, Juventus President] sent me a text: ‘congratulations, wow, that’s amazing’.

“So while we compete against Juventus and they’ve had a great little run, we’re kind of all in this together.

“It’s nice to have Andrea and others from Juventus saying right away: ‘congratulations, that’s amazing, wow’.”

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