If you haven't seen the game and you look at the score it could seem that we came here knowing that we were going to lose the match.
Actually it's quite the opposite, keeping in mind that this was for us the third game in the week while for Juve it was the first.
I think that it's not fair because they had more time to rest and recover from the previous match, I think that it would have been more reasonable for both teams to play the Coppa Italia mid week like we did.
Nonetheless we came here wanting to play at our best, despite having lots of important players like Milenkovic, Caceres, Ribery, Duncan and Castrovilli out for injury.
This shows how good and mentally prepared the lads that went out on the pitch today were, they were ready to face a great team like Juventus.
We were really focused since the beginning and didn't concede many spaces to a team that is very good at creating chances out of nowhere, their first big opportunity came in the second half and was blocked by Dragowski.
From a defensive point of view we were great today, we conceded few opportunities to score.
On the other hand we looked good going forward, had some chances to score but unfortunately sometimes we made some trivial mistakes that we aim to solve with the next training sessions.
By subbing on Ghezzal I wanted to demonstrate that we were hungry for a positive result because we knew that we were capable of obtaining it.
It's a pity that today some episodes went against us, when it's happened before that we were the ones that got denied a righteous penalty.
If the owner has things to say on the incident he's right to do so as in the last three matches there were some doubtful situations in our favor.
There's a bit of regret between me and the players because today they scored two goals from two ambiguous situations and we had our chances to draw the match.
When you are down two goals to nil it's difficult both from a physical and mental point of view to be able to level the score.
It's a shame and I feel sorry for the players that gave everything they had, for the fans and for the owners.
I honestly think that with our performance we didn't deserve at all to lose the game.
When we were preapring the tactics for this match we realized that they usually defend with a 3-5-2 formation.
They also defend quite deep and this means that it was difficult for us to play in the central part of the pitch.
We decided to play Douglas Costa from the start since he is growing a lot and he can give us some width to our offensive plays.
Obviously it's always difficult to keep Dybala on the bench since he is an incredibly talented player and he displayed it today when he came on.
We are lucky to have many talented forwards so it's difficult to play them all at once.
We decide who to play upfront based on which team we are facing, today we thought it was the ideal game to start Douglas.
He gave us balance and helped us a lot in midfield both when we were attacking and when we were defending.
The positive aspect of today's game was that we didn't concede many chances on the break to Fiorentina.
In the first half Szczesny made a great save to keep us square, but that chance came from a throw-in not a counter attack.
We knew before the game that it would have been difficult to move the ball quickly since they defend deep with a backline of five.
You can either play long balls and use just the physicality of the team to win the game or you can try to be patient and move the ball until you find the space to go infront of goal.
They didn't change system in the second half and continued to defend with five players.
When Vlahovic came on as a sub they changed a bit how they were playing and there was more space to play.
On the bench we decided to take off our attacking player that had the job to play on the edge of the offside trap to try to stretch their defence.
That's why we subbed off Higuain for Dybala, a player with different characteristic that is good at playing with the ball by his feet.
