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Juventus midfielder Manuel Locatelli took nice pleasure in his group’s much-needed victory over Manchester Metropolis on Wednesday night time.
The Bianconeri gained their first two Champions League contests this season over PSV Eindhoven and RB Leipzig, however had been slipping within the standings after failing to beat Stuttgart, Lille and Aston Villa of their subsequent three outings.
Due to this fact, Thiago Motta’s males nearly had their again towards the wall, however have now considerably improved their standing by overcoming the struggling Premier League giants who’ve been on a depressing run as of late.
For his half, Locatelli produced an excellent exhibiting. He took cost in the midst of the park, controlling Juve’s tempo whereas valiantly shielding the backline.
Due to this fact, the previous Sassuolo man was ecstatic with the end result in addition to the efficiency, describing it as Juve’s finest victory this 12 months.
“I’m very comfortable, we deserved the win after a efficiency like this one,” mentioned the Italy worldwide in his post-match interview with Prime Video through IlBianconero.
“The victory belongs to everybody, we performed a ravishing match and we’ve got to go to mattress comfortable.
“For us, it’s the victory of the 12 months. We talked to one another, we threw away factors within the league and we needed to play all of the video games like this. We deserved an evening like this.”
Locatelli was additionally humble in victory, heaping reward on Erling Haaland who discovered little pleasure towards the Bianconeri defenses.
“He’s an unbelievable participant, if you happen to depart him half an area he scores. So I attempted to all the time keep near him. We have now to be comfortable, it’s an awesome victory.
Lastly, the 26-year-old urges his teammates to maintain their heads within the sport and contemplate this end result a launching pad.
“We are able to’t get our perspective flawed, we’ve got to start out once more from this win, from this need to sacrifice ourselves. All collectively, like an awesome group.”
