Del Piero loves decisive moments

May 5, 2000
TeamTalk World

Alessandro Del Piero has spoken for the first time this week to reveal some of his personal feelings about Juve's current situation. He said: "Juventus-Parma will be much more than a Championship play-off. It will be like a European cup final. No moment is more beautiful than this one - having the right cards in your hands and knowing you'll soon have a chance to play and win. It's really great." Still the Italian striker admits that at this point, losing the title would really hurt, ading: "It would be terrible but still if we think about it our goal this year was to reach a Champions' League spot and that has been accomplished. Let's not think about the points we used to have last week, we only have to think about today. Also because at the beginning of the Championship when nobody had us among the favourites we would have given anything to be at the point we are today." Del Piero also revealed that even if his team wanted to win, if the news came that Lazio and Bologna were even, they might as well slow down. He said: "After all, should we loose, Lazio would have the title in their hands."

The player is very optimistic though, because Juve is known for being a team that hardly ever miss out in the important matches. He added: "In the past five years we've won at least 50% of the competitions we played in, which is quite good statistically talking. We must try to approach this match with a positive mentality and just a little bit of apprehension. Anyway I'm sure that everybody will be focused solely on the title hunt and personal problems will be left out of the way. Inzaghi and I for example won't think of the fact that we're both experiencing problems in scoring this season, even tough his problem is much more recent than mine, because now it really doesn't matter who'll net as long as the team wins. And we must also trust our defence that is statistically the best of the tournament."
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