On the eve of the quarter-finals of the playoffs against Carrarese, the Juventus coach Next Gen Massimo Brambilla presents the match like this on the official channels of the Juventus club: “In view of the return match against Casertana we focused almost all our attention on the mental aspect. We gave confidence and courage to the team because we knew we had all the possibilities to overturn the result of the first leg. In Alessandria we had played a good match, making few mistakes, but those small mistakes we had made had become decisive in the economy of the final result. We said that our level should have risen in finishing and finishing in the final twenty meters and at that point, in Caserta, our performance was of enormous quality.
I think the key was lightheartedness and awareness of our means. The most evident aspect in the growth of these kids is the mental approach. If we compare the first and last match played, ours seems like a different team, but we knew it, we expected it.
The lightheartedness with which we played the last matches in the regular season certainly helped us a lot in this championship finale, but also the awareness, as I said before, of our abilities. I think this combination has allowed us to be here today to play in the quarter-finals of the national playoffs. No result has been taken for granted up to this point, let’s be clear, we must give credit to these guys because they behaved very well, right from the start, even when we didn’t get the victories.
Cesena, Carrarese and Juventus Next Gen, in this order, were the three teams – in Group B – who achieved the best results in the second round. Carrarese is a structured team, with a mix of experienced players for the category and with other players at the height of their footballing maturity. It is a strong team, with the right experience and important qualities. In the championship we have always lost against our next opponents, but at the moment we are a different type of team and we have all it takes to play this double match on equal terms.”