ALLEGRI: "ONE STEP AT A TIME"

Massimiliano Allegri talks squad selection and much more prior to Saturday's match against Chievo.
It's back to business for Massimiliano Allegri and Juventus on Saturday as they return to league action in Serie A TIM matchday three at home against ChievoVerona. Here's what the Juve manager told the media at Friday's pre-match press conference: 

SQUAD CHOICES

With players returning from international duty and others carrying injuries, Allegri gave some insight into the starting eleven we could see on Saturday afternoon.

"Tomorrow Matuidi will play. Matuidi and [Miralem] Pjanic will start, then I have to evaluate whether to accompany them with an extra midfielder. I'll evaluate this after training.

"There are players to choose but [Sami] Khedira is unavailable and [Claudio] Marchisio too. [Giorgio] Chiellini is out this weekend, but we hope to have him back for Barcelona. [Juan] Cuadrado and [Paulo] Dybala have returned from overseas duty, but they did specialist training yesterday.

"Tomorrow [Gianluigi] Buffon will rest and [Wojicech] Szczesny will play. [Andrea] Barzagli is back in training today after two days of rest. He will be available, and then the others are all fine."

SATURDAY'S OPPONENT

"Chievo are a well-organized team that have been going well for many years in Serie A. This is a difficult team to face especially in the first part of the season where they have already beaten Udinese and only lost to Lazio in the last minute...Tomorrow is an important test for us and we have to take the three points."

Click HERE to read the entire Allegri's conference on Juventus official web site.

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