Juventus suffered a hard blow on Tuesday. The Bianconeri live in full obsession with the Champions League. In Turin, after years and years of dominance by Calcio (nine League titles in a row) they have reached several finals, but they were beaten. This edition, seeing a bad progression in the League, they wanted to change the loss of the national throne to get the Orejona, but Porto got in their way and frustrated their dream. One more time.
One of the great reinforcements in recent years in search of the Champions League was De Ligt. The center-back, who played for Ajax, which precisely interrupted the Bianconero way in previous editions, played this Tuesday against Porto and assured that this elimination practically leaves them on a journey through the desert until the end of the season.
“It's very hard to be eliminated like this. When you play the whole game in advantage, with one more, it is even more difficult to digest. What if this elimination changes our season? It changes a lot of things. We wanted to play the Champions League and we were eliminated in March, “said the Juventus defender.
A complicated future
With the exception of the Cup final against Atalanta, Juventus' great objective is to close their qualification for the next edition of the Champions League. The Turinese are 10 points behind the leader, Inter, with one game less but the march of the Lombards paints the fight for the title quite complicated.
Four behind Milan and with Roma and Atalanta within a shot of victory (two and three points respectively), Juventus will have to improve to close its place in Europe, a competition to which it seems that he will return without being champion for the first time in a decade.