Juventus goalkeeper Gigi Buffon has hinted his team doesn't know how to play against Premiership teams.
Juve are on the verge of being eliminated from the Champions League for the second time in two years by English opposition after last night's 2-0 defeat at Arsenal.
Buffon said: "When a team like Arsenal takes the lead and has a player like Thierry Henry, they can focus on the counter-attack and his extraordinary pace. Perhaps it got on our nerves to see that even at the 90th minute Henry had such strength and pace, so the challenges went in a little later than usual. I'm not sure if that lack of sharpness is a physical or a psychological issue."
Buffon also explains what went awry on a tactical level in London and the similarities to last year's quarter-final exit to Liverpool.
"We had talked about trying to give them as little opportunity as possible to hit us on the break, but in my view we instead stopped playing altogether. Evidently we didn't understand the Coach's requests. It's a similar game to the one we lost at Liverpool. I don't know if we suffer the English climate, but at least at Anfield we had scored an away goal. There was a sense of déjà vu."
Juve are on the verge of being eliminated from the Champions League for the second time in two years by English opposition after last night's 2-0 defeat at Arsenal.
Buffon said: "When a team like Arsenal takes the lead and has a player like Thierry Henry, they can focus on the counter-attack and his extraordinary pace. Perhaps it got on our nerves to see that even at the 90th minute Henry had such strength and pace, so the challenges went in a little later than usual. I'm not sure if that lack of sharpness is a physical or a psychological issue."
Buffon also explains what went awry on a tactical level in London and the similarities to last year's quarter-final exit to Liverpool.
"We had talked about trying to give them as little opportunity as possible to hit us on the break, but in my view we instead stopped playing altogether. Evidently we didn't understand the Coach's requests. It's a similar game to the one we lost at Liverpool. I don't know if we suffer the English climate, but at least at Anfield we had scored an away goal. There was a sense of déjà vu."
