Chiellini warns: "Juventus is not the favorite in the Champions League"

Sunday evening at San Siro you play an always intriguing postponement like Milan-Juventus. The bianconeri are returning from Allianz Stadium's misstep against Manchester United. The 2-1 suffered by the Red Devils was the first seasonal defeat for the men of Allegri, still masters of their own destiny in the Champions League. As Juventus captain Giorgio Chiellini underlined, the defeat against Mourinho's team was in the air. "Against Manchester United we had many chances to make the second goal - the words of the Juventus central, interviewed by 'Tuttosport' - We were in total control of the game for 85 minutes. We should have closed the qualification speech. All right, this defeat does not compromise anything: we are always masters of our destiny. And let's get back with your feet firmly on the ground. From the draw given to Genoa through the successes suffered on Empoli and Cagliari: they were games in which the team was joking with fire ". Inattentions and tensions of tension that according to Chiellini are also brought by the enthusiasm and expectation that circulate around Juventus this year. "The external environment can often mislead. The truth is that we are facing a long, hard and exhausting challenge in the league and in the Champions League. We have not won anything. They want us to believe that everything is easy, but in Italy and in Europe there are very dangerous adversaries. We are not the favorites in the Champions League: we are one of the 4-5 teams that can aspire to get to the end. Continuing to win, it can happen that the threshold of attention is lowered. In the last seven years it has always been like that. The slap on Wednesday will serve as a lesson to understand how football works ". Now we return to the championship, where the games are anything but closed. Merit of the teams of Spalletti and Ancelotti, second to -6 by Juventus and ready to take advantage of every miss of the Bianconeri. "With Inter and Napoli who continue to win the championship is very open. This means that we can not afford to make mistakes. We have already played a joker, since Sunday we must start again ". For the challenge on Sunday night, Milan are trying to recover their center forward, as well as a great former of the challenge: Gonzalo Higuain. A striker who has done so well for Juventus in the last two years, and that Chiellini remembers with pleasure, both humanly and professionally. "Gonzalo was an exceptional person. It surprised me not for the amount of goal that scores, but for generosity and goodness. He gave so much to us and we gave him so much. He is a formidable striker: he guarantees thirty goals a year. We will have to be careful in the area, in the last twenty meters it is almost unattainable. We know it, we will have to limit it ".