Three straight games without a win, including two losses in just four days. After Sassuolo raided Turin and came away with a 2-1 win at Juventus Stadium, Hellas Verona outplayed and outmuscled the Bianconeri at Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi on Saturday evening to put more pressure on troubled coach Massimiliano Allegri, the man who was brought with one task in mind: to win trophies.Simeone, Giovanni Simeone. Diego’s son has definitely left his father’s shadowAllegri’s second stint in charge of the Old Lady of Turin has proved a maligned one so far. Just five months after his appointment, his prime task is trying to explain just why his team isn’t performing. After seeing his side go down to hard-working Gialloblu, he looked like a man who really needs a hug.”Words are meaningless right now. We’re in a bad situation, we have to accept the reality that right now we are a mid-table team. We can get out of this situation with a little more determination and quality. We will drag ourselves out of this situation. There’s no point feeling sorry for ourselves, that won’t help, we just need to focus on what we need to do and then things will sort themselves out.”🗣: “We are a mid table team.”[Allegri / @DAZN_IT] pic.twitter.com/L26QkYC6iY— Bianconeri Zone (@BianconeriZone) October 30, 2021 Juventus have conceded 15 goals after 11 rounds, their worst tally in the last 60 years, and scored only 15 with 15 points earned. And these poor numbers aren’t a consequence of the players’ lack of ability.”It’s a good squad, but things don’t always go your way in football. We have to react with pride and determination. We had to play like a team that had one point, and we did, now we have to play like a team that has 15 points. Wearing the Juventus jersey does not give us a guarantee we must beat the teams in mid-table. We have to earn every point and do it with the right attitude.”Allegri hit hard on the issue of humility and arrogance, seeing his team take too much for granted after a series of 1-0 wins.“We realised Verona were going to make it physical and a battle for every ball, so if you don’t meet them at that level, you will lose. Verona knew that was how they had to play in order to beat Juventus. Our mistake was assuming we were better than Verona, and right now we are not. We must be realistic. There is no big team that has ever won without respecting their opponents. We are lacking that desire to fight it out, because games are a battle.”##NAJAVA_MECA_5938259##He was re-appointed before the start of the season to bring back glory to the black and whites. But, before October has even passed, Allegri admits that the Serie A title race is all but lost.”There’s nothing we can say now, we just need to stay silent and work hard to prove ourselves on the pitch. Scudetto? Well, today was almost the final step for that.”
