![]() ![]() "I watched him play for England over the two games and he was our best player. "Influencing games at this level, captaining teams at this level, and mentally this kid's a beast."įellow pundit and former Chelsea midfielder Joe Cole added: "Along with Erling Haaland, he's the best young player in the world, that's for sure. "He's still got to go on and prove it over a long period of time, but they weren't doing what he is doing right now. "The best of our generation, Lampard, Gerrard, Scholes, Vieira, Roy Keane, they weren't doing this. "What he's doing in his position at his age, we haven't seen," Ferdinand said, working as a pundit for BT Sport. The only other player to achieve that feat is his former BVB team-mate Erling Haaland, who did so with Salzburg in the 2019-20 season.īellingham's tally of three Champions League goals this season is already a joint-high among English teenagers for a single campaign, along with Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, back in 2004-05. ![]() Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand declared "we haven't seen" a player like Jude Bellingham at his age after the Borussia Dortmund teenager helped guide his team to a 4-1 Champions League win at Sevilla.īellingham scored one and assisted one as Dortmund eased to victory in Spain on Wednesday, with other goals coming from Raphael Guerreiro, Karim Adeyemi and Julian Brandt, while Youssef En-Nesyri pulled one back for the hosts.īellingham, 19, who captained the Bundesliga side, became just the second teenager to score in the first three games of a Champions League campaign. "Alex Sandro had a problem after Sunday, he might be back for the Monza game, and Rabiot and Locatelli are out." Szczesny has also been training so may be available, I will know after this press conference. "Di Maria has recovered," he said. "I don't know if he will start, but he has been training with the team. The former Milan boss did have some good news for Juve fans, saying Angel Di Maria has returned from injury and could start at the Allianz Stadium on Wednesday, while first-choice goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny is also back in training. We have time to recover, but as for the match, it will be a difficult and complicated match and we must be focused on it." We have lost some points and I am sorry for that. "We would like to have a different situation in Serie A. he has to deal with some psychological pressure. He's an extraordinary signing for the club of course but in terms of experience. "Bremer, I believe, will only be playing his second match in the Champions League if I'm not wrong. Obviously we want to win all the time so we are pushed from the outside. "Playing for Juventus is not easy at all, the players are always under pressure. "We certainly have experience, but at the same time we have other players who have not played in the Champions League very often, and have not played in Serie A very often, so they have less experience," Allegri said. Juve have had an underwhelming start to the season, drawing four of their six Serie A games so far, while they lost their opening game in Group H of the Champions League 2-1 at Paris Saint-Germain last week.Īllegri expects his team to improve, but pointed to a lack of experience at the top level for several of his players, singling out new arrival Bremer, who signed from Torino in July. "This is something that should be taken into consideration that could be food for thought, in my opinion." Rather than being sent off, maybe it would be better to pay a fine for coaches so we can help charities, but I would like to be on the pitch. "I don't know whether I will be able to take part in Sunday's game. "It's not up to me to express my opinion on that. "I have never expressed any judgements of the referees," he said. ![]() Speaking at a press conference ahead of the Bianconeri hosting Benfica in the Champions League group stage, Allegri said he considers the chapter "closed", but raised his idea that coaches pay fines rather than face bans following such incidents. The Juventus head coach was sent off in stoppage time of his side's dramatic 2-2 draw with Salernitana on Sunday after protesting the referee and VAR overturning what would have been a last-minute winning goal from Arkadiusz Milik, who was also dismissed for taking his shirt off during the initial celebrations. Massimiliano Allegri believes coaches who are shown red cards should pay fines that are then passed to charities, rather than face touchline bans. ![]()
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