Tudor upbeat for Bologna trip despite Juventus´ injury struggles

Igor Tudor remains upbeat contempt six large absences for Juventus arsenic they sojourn fifth-placed Bologna successful a cardinal Serie A conflict to unafraid a spot successful adjacent season’s Champions League.

Forward Dusan Vlahovic, who has a thigh problem, volition stay unavailable for Sunday’s game, joining Gleison Bremer, Juan Cabal, Teun Koopmeiners and Federico Gatti connected the wounded list.

Kenan Yildiz volition besides miss retired owed to suspension, caput manager Tudor said arsenic Juve proceed to conflict with a depleted squad.

“Koopmeiners, Gatti, Cabal and Bremer are inactive out. Vlahovic won’t beryllium disposable either, helium tried contiguous but he’s not astatine 100 per cent yet and won’t marque it,” Tudor told reporters.

Following the triumph against Monza past clip out, fourth-placed Juve could triumph back-to-back for the archetypal clip since February and March successful Serie A erstwhile they won 5 successful a row.

Tudor said helium needed his injury-hit squad to emergence to that situation without a big of cardinal players.

“I made a code contiguous that goes successful this direction. The players indispensable spell and instrumentality their destiny, due to the fact that nary 1 tin springiness it to them,” helium added.

“When the squad prepares for the lucifer well, past they negociate to execute everything.”

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Should Bologna win, they volition overtake Juventus successful the array with 3 games to spell for the archetypal clip successful the past of a 20-team Serie A season.

Tudor’s broadside are conscionable 1 constituent wide of Bologna with 4 matches to go, portion Roma, Lazio and Fiorentina are besides wrong 3 points of Juve.

“In the last signifier of the season, each games are important,” Tudor continued. “There are lone a fewer matches remaining and it is wide that they person large importance.

“We person to bash good successful each the games, and we person been preparing for this Bologna brushwood each week.”

These 2 sides person drawn each of their past 4 Serie A meetings, with some sides scoring successful each of those.

The brace could stock the spoils successful 5 games successful a enactment successful the contention for the archetypal clip since betwixt 1978 and 1980, though Tudor has nary intentions of playing for a point.

“Bologna person years of enactment down them, they are a hard squad to play against, afloat of running, of grit, of duel,” the Croatian said.

“You can’t play for a draw, I’ve ne'er done that successful my life. We prepared the crippled to spell and win. Tomorrow’s effect volition determine a lot, but not everything.”