Maurizio Sarritechnician Juventus Turin, assured this Wednesday, on the eve of the league game against Udinese, that the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo is “a champion at a mental level as well as a technical one” and praised his ability to manage his energies, which he considers “enormous”.
“I talked to Cristiano and he said he feels great. It has a great capacity for recovery, it is part of its DNA, this ability to project itself towards the next objective at a collective and individual level. They are physical and mental recovery capacities that are not common, “said Sarri at the press conference prior to the duel with Udinese.
“He manages to go beyond fatigue in an extremely natural way, he is a champion in the head as well as in the feet “, added about Cristiano, who only missed 17 minutes in the ten games played after the health break.
The Portuguese is the top scorer of Serie A with 30 goals, tied with Lazio striker Ciro Immobile, and signed a decisive double on Monday to leave Juventus one step away from its ninth consecutive league title.
With four days to go, He has six points of advantage over Atalanta, second with one more game, and eight over Inter Milan, third, and can potentially proclaim champion already this Thursday.
Inter must not win this Wednesday against Fiorentina and Juventus must beat Udinese on Thursday.
Sarri believes that his Juventus still have “room for improvement” and praised his offensive partner formed by Cristiano and the Argentine Paulo Dybala: “The problems of coexistence between two players of such high level is difficult for me to see them, there may be games in which we do not cover the area well, but that is compensated by force individual of two players who scored 51 goals between the two “.
He was also blunt in commenting on the criticism he receives from some media for the lack of brilliance of his team.
“Probably someone likes me. I am relatively interested, because in the end, those of journalists are opinions. I am relatively interested in the opinions of people on an issue that I think I know more about. Let me be presumptuous, I may be wrong but I have all the data available to know more than those who express an opinion. I accept it, but I am relatively interested, “he said.